Scenes from the suburbs
What a pretentious little film. The direction was good and surprisingly enough, Arcade Fire’s music was absolutely brilliant for the film. Perhaps the best aspect of the film altogether. For me, it probably would have made more sense to make a film about little kids listening to Linkin Park though, or at least with some nu-metal/pop/whatever music. How many people under 20 really listen to indie nowadays? Or am I just missing out on the times? Which brings me to the problems of the film: Too much bullshit talking. I was never like that when I was a teen, and seeing “A brighter summer day” (just the most recent example) proves that it is possible to make a good film about kids growing up, using young actors who are not professionals. The ones in this film were atrocious, especially the girl, but also the protagonist – very unfortunate. At the end of the day, I found the film quite pointless because it never actually said anything, and completely failed at making me feel emotional.
Also, Austin seems to be really ugly. I don’t really know if I ever want to see another Spike Jonze film anymore, no matter how much I liked “Being John Malkovich”.
Less than 5% (guesswork). I’ll probably pass on this film, but the one draw for me would be Arcade Fire. Love when indie-rock is used for scoring, which brought me to search About Chocolate Parfaits for Half Nelson; I didn’t find an entry, but have you seen it? Most of the film’s music comes from Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It In People. It’s a great touch, and if you haven’t seen it… don’t be scurred.
Cheers.
5% sounds about right, very sad. I have an index page where you can find almost all the movies I have seen in the last 5 years, so if it’s not there, I most likely have not seen it. I did not see “Half Nelson” for example! (Though I have heard of it.) I’ll keep it in mind!
There are are so many great examples of music in films, like Daft Punk’s “Interstella 5555” of Pink Floyd in “Zabriskie Point”, but these two are the only ones that come to mind right now.