Lost and Delirious
Ahh, the Berlinale is coming up but I still have two movies from last year to blog (and a huge backlog of e-mails I have not worked on at all). What is wrong with me these days? I have to admit that real life is quite overwhelming, and writing a more or less lengthy e-mail to Pip every day does not inspire me to write even more. It’s like I poured my brain’s entire content into those e-mails and afterwards I just do not want to produce written words anymore. Well, now that my excitement for the Berlinale is rising, I am a little more motivated to not get way too far behind with my backlogs.
Ironically, after watching “Lost and Delirious” I actually spent a lot of time thinking about it. Perhaps the end was shown in an overly dramatic way (I mean come on, that bird?), but there was something about the film that made me deeply emphasize with its characters. I could easily get behind Paulie’s desperation and her straight-forward heartbreak over being broken up with by the girl she loves and who so clearly loves her too (albeit in a dick-ish way – Tory pretty much broke every single break-up etiquette rule, especially the post-break-up-I-still-have-feelings-for-you scene was horrifying to me). But they are teenagers, they behave like teenagers and there is something so strangely true in the somewhat clichéd portrait of their feelings. When we were in Paris, I was fairly close to 307 who I now sadly completely lost contact to (and no I have not really gotten over it), and she said “Lost and Delirious” was her favorite movie. I can totally see why the film spoke to her.
I thought it was odd that the narrator of the story does absolutely nothing in this film. She’s the mousiest character I have ever seen on screen (heck they even named her “mouse”!) and contributes nothing more than looks of shock and a pretty face (I think Mischa Barton is totally hot here in a demure-hot kind of way). It seems that she is a much more interesting character in the book, that she has funny monologues with herself and such – this is the kind of case where the movie version should just have completely kicked that character out if it’s unable to do it justice. I thought the film made a lot of.
Oh yeah, and Jessica Parés boobies are so darn huge and shockingly well-shaped. I thought she was very, very good-looking as object of desire in this film. If you are into her that way, “Lost and Delirious” is a must, otherwise it was an interesting watch and the abundant feelings of teenage love lingered with me for a bit, but I would not necessarily recommend the film.