Friday, August 1, 2008

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Imagine a world where you can't smile, you have a terrible job and girls confuse you immensely. This is the world that Patrick Fugit finds himself in in Wristcutters. It is a tale of the world that you go to if you commit suicide. It looks like Nevada, and not the good parts. It is actually a wonderful story about realizing the importance of life and the people that surround us. With a great cameo by Will Arnett and an even better cameo by Tom Waits, the movie makes its points with understated cinematography and solid acting performances by the aforementioned actors as well as Shea Whigham who is about to be in roughly 12 movies in the next two years. The icing on the cake is Shannyn Sossamon who plays a beautiful and disturbed young woman who is forced to travel with Wigham and Fugit on their quest. Like a weird Dante's Purgatorio, the movie makes its way through paths you would not expect and finds itself at a beautiful ending that is beyond touching. Furthermore, Wigham's music in the movie is AWESOME. 2 1/2 Donairs. Enjoy.

Also, as a side note, here are the lyrics to the "theme music"
When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of this town
And so you learn the only way to go is underground
When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of your room
And so you learn the only way to go is through the roof

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground

And as we're crossing border after border
We realize that difference is none
It's underdogs who, and if you want it
You always have to make your own fun

And as the upperdog leisurely sighing
The local cultures are dying and dying
The programmed robots are buying and buying
And a psycho load of freaks they are still trying trying

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground

And as the boy scouts learn to read between the lines
The silver rabbits hop between their fathers' lies
And boy scouts ask "Where? Where do they go?"
They go to the country that they only know

Just like their meanings they lay between the lines
Between the borders their real countries hide
The strategigo's saw their advertise
Their strategy of being is one of in-your-face disguise

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground!

And when their own walls they will a-crumble,
And all the systems will be discumbumbled,
Around the stump of bigotry, our own 
Serebryanye zayazhy vodyat horovod! [Russian]

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, and underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof! Underground!

Serebryanye zayazy vodyat horovod! [Russian]

Through the roof! And underground!
Through the roof! Underground!

1 comment:

JasonH said...

Very interseting movie, well acted and the script is very cool some pretty sweet cameos as well, overall i was really impressed with this movie. the coolest part has to be the theme song though, so very fantabulous