Re: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
I rented this movie on DVD from Netflix. I’d never heard of it before, and now I know why.
It’s not a bad movie at all, actually. Unfortunately for it, it came out just around the time “American Beauty” came out and has similar themes (loner with a camera stalking troubled cheerleader, etc.). It’s a little more “attitudinal” in that “Heathers” way, though.
Anyone who’s looking for a take on the ole Dostoyevsky novel will be pretty much disappointed. Roseanne is a cheerleader who dates the captain of the football team blah blah blah… Vincent is the photo-snapping cute-in-a-nerdy-way loner who stalks her and philosophizes about life in the meantime. Her dad is an angry drunk, and when her mother leaves him for a bartender, he goes out of control and rapes her, so she tells her ineffectual boyfriend that he has to help her kill him. So they do, and her mom gets put on trial for it. It also has a compelling soundtrack.
I watched it again because I’m oddly attracted to Vincent Kartheiser, mostly because he reminds me of the type of guy I spent many a tortured hour pining over (but never actually getting the nerve to speak to) in high school.
So naturally, I went over to the IMDB to check out some things, and came across this user comment. I think things like this comment are the most important cultural contributions sites like this provide. Years from now we’ll look at the incoherent ravings of people and wonder.
(Sorry, that link was wrong...I think I fixed it now)
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