Emotion Sickness
I think I just watched the most emo movie ever made, Me and You and Everyone We Know. This looks like it was written by a mildly upset sensitive teenager whose ma just put the wrong type of milk in his cornflakes and is now up in his bedroom mitching off school, by turns furiously penning a movie script and masturbating over someone he saw at a busstop.
It stars John Hawkes, a person to whom I took an instant dislike. In his very first scene, a patience-stretching 00:01:47 in, I immediately thought to myself, "I don't like this man. If this was real life, I would wait for him to finish speaking, then punch him without losing my cool."
It contains many classic emo quotes:
"(Dad to his own kids): Do I look well to you guys? Objectively speaking, if you weren't my children, would you think that that guy looks OK? He looks like a guy who might have a wife and kids and stuff?" (THEY DON'T KNOW, YOU NEEDY FUCKER.)
"(To a goldfish in a bag): I didn't know you, but I want you to die knowing you were loved."
"I want my children to have magical powers."
"Email wouldn't even exist without AIDS." *
"It needs air. Let's take my hand for a walk."
Just goes to show, just because something won 18 $awards at $FilmFestivals, doesn't say a heap of good things about it. Everyone knows that hipsters like this guy go to those, anyway.
* Apparently this is because when you write a letter to someone, they have to touch your letter when they read it, and they might get AIDS from you by transmission.
It stars John Hawkes, a person to whom I took an instant dislike. In his very first scene, a patience-stretching 00:01:47 in, I immediately thought to myself, "I don't like this man. If this was real life, I would wait for him to finish speaking, then punch him without losing my cool."
It contains many classic emo quotes:
"(Dad to his own kids): Do I look well to you guys? Objectively speaking, if you weren't my children, would you think that that guy looks OK? He looks like a guy who might have a wife and kids and stuff?" (THEY DON'T KNOW, YOU NEEDY FUCKER.)
"(To a goldfish in a bag): I didn't know you, but I want you to die knowing you were loved."
"I want my children to have magical powers."
"Email wouldn't even exist without AIDS." *
"It needs air. Let's take my hand for a walk."
Just goes to show, just because something won 18 $awards at $FilmFestivals, doesn't say a heap of good things about it. Everyone knows that hipsters like this guy go to those, anyway.
* Apparently this is because when you write a letter to someone, they have to touch your letter when they read it, and they might get AIDS from you by transmission.