The Last Kiss.

[mcshutup]

It was good. There's a lot of cleverness and restraint in the script that makes up for familiar comic ideas and relationship dynamics. The juxtaposing of different characters (in particular the uncommon use of Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner as an older couple with the same problems and yearnings as the kids) adds dimension, and never falls into a

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[kanino]

Still, the movie is entirely housed in a middle class idea of domesticity as sanity, and anything which threatens it as a semi-psychotic abberation.

Overused trend? Did you watch Thumbsucker?

not a Thumbsucker, but I am a teeth grinder

[mcshutup]

Overused trend?

Yes, and the arbiters of what is and isn't "relevant art" seem to be middle class looking for glamourised reflections of themselves or unreflective "museum exhibit" versions of poverty.

Did you watch Thumbsucker?Yeah, that was a better movie, at least in parts....it was more penetrating into how difficult it is for young men to expand their lives while holding onto the womb. I liked the family in Thumbsucker, how they were unified in ways but divergent in others and not hopelessly unaware. But there was the same strain of foxy teenage girl, treated in two seperate sections of the movie as a sort of natural obstacle on the path to adulthood. If I hadn't watched the DVD extras, I wouldn't have known much of anything about her character or why she changed so suddenly. In fact, I kept thinking that parts of the movie were meant to be dream sequences because modes and moods shifted so quickly. But apparently the book took place over several years, and the movie was condensed which made it more surreal. So, yeah, I still