This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My Own Private Idaho does location cards the way I dig - a few frames of a singular color, with a single word on the screen. After all, you don't need anything more to identify a place.
In many ways, I feel that the film treats its own characters the same way. Mikey is gay and Mikey is vulnerable and Mikey is lost. Scotty is closeted or just homophobic or both. He's also privileged and beyond wily and unreachable. Bob…
Started crying when the doctor told Evelyn’s parents “I’m sorry, it’s a girl” and didn’t stop. This movie knows laughing and crying are on the two ends of the horseshoe
Thinking of my own father and his parents and so many friends who are daughters and sisters living in worlds as limited and infinite as this one. This is the first movie I’ve seen about this story that I’ve heard so many times.
I cried so much, I’ve never sobbed…
