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With the kind of week I had I still managed to muster a little something new.
This is about the only thing worth talking about in the last seven days:
Go Sox…
WRISTCUTTERS (2007)
Director: Goran Dukic
Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits,
Leslie Bibb
Release: November 2nd, 2007
Synopsis: Zia (Patrick Fugit), distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfor- tunately, he discovers there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also “offed†herself , he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn’t mean you have to stop livin’.
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Prognosis: Really Positive. One of the things I really enjoy about trailers like this is that there’s a voice that someone found and went with it.
I can think if all the ways in which someone could have taken an amalgam of scenes and turned this into an arty, obtuse trailer that I would immediately eschew in all its indulgence but you don’t get that here. This is a trailer that actually sustains itself on an interesting premise and tosses in enough weirdness that genuinely triggers interest and curiosity.
I didn’t know quite what they were thinking with the title of the film, it’s awful, but when we enter this film’s universe we’re greeted with a breathy beat box as a soundtrack and a thin understanding as to why the young up and comer, now older and not so visible, Patrick Fugit is cleaning his place up before collapsing on the bathroom floor in a pool of his own blood; the dust bunny was an excellent detail.
The premise is played quite well, slightly subdued, and when we see that this is a world inhabited by other people who have died as well and that it looks like earth, only a little different, it’s where all the interesting things start happening to Sir Fugit.
We get introduced to the best friend, every movie needs one, and then are told that the girl who Patrick killed himself over…also killed herself shortly after he did. So, what are you going to do? Have a road trip in the underworld!
You get the requisite giddy music to go along with the adventure that’s about to take place, as all the exciting things happen on the road, you get the mysterious (but hot, of course) wild card, played by Shannyn Sossamon, and you’re all set.
What I really dig, though, about this trailer is that even though everything to this point was a little hackneyed with regard to the set up it is after the establishment of all this when it steps above the common. You’ve got an interesting mix of people and premise when Tom Waits of all people get involved.
The movie seems less about the destination, of course, but the journey along the way deals with life as it used to be in order to define where these people are now. To say nothing, as well, about Will Arnett’s presence in this movie; dressed in white, playing the part of what seems like king, seeing Fugit and company stuck in some latter-day jail it’s bizarre and I love it.
I dig the cheap joke at the end and the music that rides this trailer out but I think what’s important to see is that this seems like a flick that wants to take the road trip genre and give it a fresh twist. It’ll be interesting to see whether these people can.
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