Huh.
6:49 PM 4/4/10 · It is a rare thing for me to watch a movie from beginning to end and afterward not be sufre how I feel about it. Going through the motions of that now and even as I'm sorting it out while typing this I can't honestly say one way or the other...
...although I may've been distracted by all the scenes of Amber Heard being naked and fucking.
The Informers is a collectyion of stories that all interwave together into an absolutely confusing mess, typical of the 80's, that are not short stories by any means but aren't really complete ones either. The film seems to be shot in an almost consistant state of emotional 'meh'. The only exceptions to that being the part involving Mickey Rourke, which was beyond disturbing for a host of reasons all in and of itself.
The Informers is based, as true to the page as could be managed, on the book written by the same author that did American Psycho & Less Than Zero. There's an undertone that may not be evident to many of the AIDS scare of the time...which really plays out nicely cuz back in the 80's most everybody was aware of it but it still didn't really entirely register on the populace at large.
All of the stories are connected by the characters involved, even if those ties are tenuous at best. Truthfully, I couldn't figure out how the band was part of anything else until the very end. Now, while they are connected that doesn't mean they have much of anything to do with each other beyond that.
We've got a bunch of young adults, guesstimating between 18 to 22, that are constantly smoking pot and screwing. They have no real emotional range, which isn't to say its not well acted...they're just not very grounded in reality. Like the world is going by and they're only vaguely aware of it. However, they're not stoners. There's the tragedy of a friend of theirs dying but that barely makes a ripple in their lives. A guy loves a girl who is screwing several people both with him and without him. His best friend is screwing his mother and him, separately, and his mother is putting an end to that because her husband is moving back in...
...they were separated because he started screwing around with this woman he knew through work but he doesn't want to lose ½ his stuff in a messy divorce so he goes back to his wife, while on some level of wonky can't see why that means he has to give up the other woman.
Said other woman, I don't know how she used to feel about him but it ain't there now.
There's a father and son trip to Hawaii that supposed to be an exercise in bonding but the son is detached and the father is drunk. It's an interesting interplay that goes nowhere really fast.
Mickey Rourke, who used to be a fave actor of mine ages ago, practically lives out of his van. He comes to town to stay with a nephew who doesn't want him there, with a girl in tow whose age is questionable at best. Shortly after he gets there he kidnaps a boy to sell to, again a guess, NAMBLA in order to make some money. That whole situation is far more fucked up than I can describe.
The band bit largely focuses on their lead singer, who is even more detached than anybody else in a lot of ways. He's a heavy drinker and drug user, will fuck any underage teen that he can find, and isn't on good terms with his family. It's hard to see how he plays into the film in any other way than what I mentioned above and that his band is called The Informers.
There's other stuff too.
One really wonky thing is the sex and nudity. Other than the singer, the only people having sex and getting naked are the young adults. However, the full adults...not so much. Not a huge deal, I thank the Gods I didn't have to see Billy Bob Thornton au natural, but the two leading lady adults bug. One who is having sex with one of the young adults, though we never actually see that, is Kim Bassinger. Seen her naked elsewhere, wonderful. The other is Winona Ryder who I've never seen naked in anything...
...I'm not really so hung up on the nudity but given the way this film goes I really have to question why they decided who was going to be that way and who wasn't.
I honestly have no idea what I thought about The Informers but I'd happily watch it again.
No, not just for the Amber Heard scenes!
Well...not entirely :)
...although I may've been distracted by all the scenes of Amber Heard being naked and fucking.
The Informers is a collectyion of stories that all interwave together into an absolutely confusing mess, typical of the 80's, that are not short stories by any means but aren't really complete ones either. The film seems to be shot in an almost consistant state of emotional 'meh'. The only exceptions to that being the part involving Mickey Rourke, which was beyond disturbing for a host of reasons all in and of itself.
The Informers is based, as true to the page as could be managed, on the book written by the same author that did American Psycho & Less Than Zero. There's an undertone that may not be evident to many of the AIDS scare of the time...which really plays out nicely cuz back in the 80's most everybody was aware of it but it still didn't really entirely register on the populace at large.
All of the stories are connected by the characters involved, even if those ties are tenuous at best. Truthfully, I couldn't figure out how the band was part of anything else until the very end. Now, while they are connected that doesn't mean they have much of anything to do with each other beyond that.
We've got a bunch of young adults, guesstimating between 18 to 22, that are constantly smoking pot and screwing. They have no real emotional range, which isn't to say its not well acted...they're just not very grounded in reality. Like the world is going by and they're only vaguely aware of it. However, they're not stoners. There's the tragedy of a friend of theirs dying but that barely makes a ripple in their lives. A guy loves a girl who is screwing several people both with him and without him. His best friend is screwing his mother and him, separately, and his mother is putting an end to that because her husband is moving back in...
...they were separated because he started screwing around with this woman he knew through work but he doesn't want to lose ½ his stuff in a messy divorce so he goes back to his wife, while on some level of wonky can't see why that means he has to give up the other woman.
Said other woman, I don't know how she used to feel about him but it ain't there now.
There's a father and son trip to Hawaii that supposed to be an exercise in bonding but the son is detached and the father is drunk. It's an interesting interplay that goes nowhere really fast.
Mickey Rourke, who used to be a fave actor of mine ages ago, practically lives out of his van. He comes to town to stay with a nephew who doesn't want him there, with a girl in tow whose age is questionable at best. Shortly after he gets there he kidnaps a boy to sell to, again a guess, NAMBLA in order to make some money. That whole situation is far more fucked up than I can describe.
The band bit largely focuses on their lead singer, who is even more detached than anybody else in a lot of ways. He's a heavy drinker and drug user, will fuck any underage teen that he can find, and isn't on good terms with his family. It's hard to see how he plays into the film in any other way than what I mentioned above and that his band is called The Informers.
There's other stuff too.
One really wonky thing is the sex and nudity. Other than the singer, the only people having sex and getting naked are the young adults. However, the full adults...not so much. Not a huge deal, I thank the Gods I didn't have to see Billy Bob Thornton au natural, but the two leading lady adults bug. One who is having sex with one of the young adults, though we never actually see that, is Kim Bassinger. Seen her naked elsewhere, wonderful. The other is Winona Ryder who I've never seen naked in anything...
...I'm not really so hung up on the nudity but given the way this film goes I really have to question why they decided who was going to be that way and who wasn't.
I honestly have no idea what I thought about The Informers but I'd happily watch it again.
No, not just for the Amber Heard scenes!
Well...not entirely :)