Title: MayDirector: Lucky McKee
Starring: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 2002
Source: Generation X Video
Creepy goth girl, unheathly obsession with dolls, bisexual and a lazy eye? A modern day Juliet, ha. This movie is straight up weird, but weird is good, right?
The beginning comes off kind of weak and rushed. Lazy eye means wearing an eye patch? And then kids hating you? I don't know what school you went too, but wearing an eye eye patch at my elementary school would of likened you with a pirate, and therefore made you the coolest kid ever.
In traditional form, kid gets bullied in grade school, has wonky parents, and grows up demented as can be. May is charming cause she lacks all social skills, you kind of want to take the girl to the salon and let out her inner hot girl. Instead, she ends up taking you to the butcher to crave out a few of your best assets for her new doll collection.
This movie is in every way creepy and once you get past the slow moving beginning the pace finally picks up and a movie worth watching is finally presented. Many try to be different, but this one succeeds flawlessly, May is just strange. The cast did a fabulous job, and Anna Farris is now my favourite annoying lesbian, it was nice to see her outside her token funny girl role.
Recommended.
j.
3 comments:
Angela Bettis completely OWNS this movie. She is so great here, playing a totally weird role, a girl who's probably unlike anyone anybody watching it has ever really known (except for those punk kids in the back with their feet on the seats), and yet makes it so believable and real, it's heartbreaking. Great direction from McKee, good ensemble acting all around (though Anna Faris was a bit much at times), just a great flick.
And that last shot--I just sat there for a minute after it went black thinking how fucked up and true to the film and wonderful it was--but mostly how fucked up it was.
Don't know why I haven't bought this DVD yet.
Oh well, Xmas is coming.
That last shot sealed the movie for me. It was one of those, "holy fuck..." moments. I kinda really love those, ha.
Have you ever watched Love Object? I see it as kind of the male version of May. Not quite as good, but still pretty great. You should check it out.
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