Vid your darlings
Let's not dwell on how I gave myself mild food poisoning tonight (ow) and instead focus on the unexpected joy that was Kill Your Darlings. The listing promised me Alexander Skarsgard and Julie Benz, which it delivered, along with cross-dressing, handcuffs, girl-on-guy dubcon, John Laroquette, love in an unexpected place, a semi-threesome with a delightful actor I hadn't known named Fares Fares, and basically a double Kink Bingo line in itself despite the lack of actual sex. (Striptease! Genderplay! Gags! Guns! Film/Photography Pictures!) And strong themes of suicide and mental health problems, so be warned. Along with a lovely theme of the importance of the bond between father and daughter. Skarsgard made a wonderfully understated and gentle and toned 6-and-a-half-foot transvestite, and there was bonus Stellan in a telephone voice cameo. Benz was delightful as she swung from rock-bottom depressed to driven and affectionate.
Actually what I liked best about it, other than Skarsgard in mascara and a dress, was how much kink it contained without being explicit or judgmental or even really drawing attention to the kinks. Just light and matter-of-fact. Skarsgard's in a dress. Okay. Two guys make snide comments, a few characters take it in stride, and one falls for him. Fares uses handcuffs like a security blanket. Okay. When he's napping with Skarsgard and Benz secured to each of his wrists, Benz quietly slips out of one, pulls down the curtain, and slips back in. The possibly psychotic lead female character (played by Lolita Davidovich) twice dresses the lead male character (played by Andreas Wilson) in a woman's wig for no discernible reason.
The biggest thing wrong with it was the self-insert main character and his storyline, which dragged in comparison to the Skarsgard-Benz-Fares-policeman and Laroquette-daughter* plots. The actor was terribly flat. Maybe part of that was on purpose, since the character was a depressed writer with a boring life trying to gain experience to prop up his stories. And English is not Wilson's first language. But it just seemed like he couldn't act a line.
*Coincidentally, the actress who played the swimmer in the House episode "Kids," who also coincidentally I just learned played Mel Gibson's adorable daughter in The Patriot
In short, I want to vid it for Bingo. Will need to either find a song or make it into a silly 50s-era cheesy trailer with big letters and exclamation marks across the screen advertising the above and other kinks.
...I feel even more comfortable saying this outside of friends-lock because hardly anyone is online right now to see it.
Actually what I liked best about it, other than Skarsgard in mascara and a dress, was how much kink it contained without being explicit or judgmental or even really drawing attention to the kinks. Just light and matter-of-fact. Skarsgard's in a dress. Okay. Two guys make snide comments, a few characters take it in stride, and one falls for him. Fares uses handcuffs like a security blanket. Okay. When he's napping with Skarsgard and Benz secured to each of his wrists, Benz quietly slips out of one, pulls down the curtain, and slips back in. The possibly psychotic lead female character (played by Lolita Davidovich) twice dresses the lead male character (played by Andreas Wilson) in a woman's wig for no discernible reason.
The biggest thing wrong with it was the self-insert main character and his storyline, which dragged in comparison to the Skarsgard-Benz-Fares-policeman and Laroquette-daughter* plots. The actor was terribly flat. Maybe part of that was on purpose, since the character was a depressed writer with a boring life trying to gain experience to prop up his stories. And English is not Wilson's first language. But it just seemed like he couldn't act a line.
*Coincidentally, the actress who played the swimmer in the House episode "Kids," who also coincidentally I just learned played Mel Gibson's adorable daughter in The Patriot
In short, I want to vid it for Bingo. Will need to either find a song or make it into a silly 50s-era cheesy trailer with big letters and exclamation marks across the screen advertising the above and other kinks.
...I feel even more comfortable saying this outside of friends-lock because hardly anyone is online right now to see it.