This probably deserves more attention than I’m willing to give it at the moment. Sadly, lately I’ve become a little bored of me. I think I’m pretty funny and all at times, but really everyone is stuck with themselves 24-7-century and then you die. I’m probably my biggest fan and I don’t want to be with myself most of the time.
I’d totally rather be Sean Lennon. If someone came to me now and said “you will have a father who was basically the coolest guy ever, one that was so devoted to you that he gave up being the coolest guy ever for five years just so that he could take care of you, but he will die violently in your youth leaving you to forever long for the father and the life that you should have had”, it would sound kind of like a drag at first, but when you look into it more you realize that you get to look like John Lennon, and sound like John Lennon, and you have access to an estate that your mother has been growing like ripe tomatoes your whole life I don’t think it’s really that bad. I’d take that deal still. I would be ok hanging out instead with Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, and Michael Jackson. How could that ever suck? You have a great life and yet have a rightful license to have a chip on your shoulder and be angry at the government and the world for your whole life. That doesn’t just sound like a life it’s almost a myth and I’m stuck with me all the time instead. What a drag indeed.
How could that possibly not make you want to read more?
Nevertheless, Crazy/Beautiful is like the greatest movie of all time. Stay with me. It’s not like I have a fetish for teen cinema that gets creepier and creepier seeming every year. Oh wait, that is me. It’s like an amazing celebrity Red Shoe Diaries movie that actually turns out to be a good movie too.
Kirsten Dunst plays this incredibly romantic and completely bonkers out of her mind teen who wants to have sex with her new boyfriend for the first time in front of an exposed glass slide door in her bedroom with her congressman father right outside. I actually don’t remember for sure if her dad was a congressman, but I’m pretty sure that he was really rich and important. Kirsten’s mother committed suicide when she was younger and her father is married to a woman almost as old as she is.
So basically, a hot girl with serious father issues, wanting to act out sexually at any time, and if you watched it with a girl friend you could still convince her that it really had a good message and a really happy somewhat deserved ending? What could be better than that?
You could watch this movie with the sound off and it would be enjoyable, but it like actually turns out to be a good romantic movie at the end.
Ok, my hat is in the ring for most meaningful film critic of 2012. Someone alert Roger Ebert and Vincent Canby!
