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Despite the often over-enthusiastic crowd antics, DiFranco focused on the music and seemed enthusiastic herself. She dodged the flying gifts with grins, reminisced about the Muppet Show, wiggled her nose shrugged her shoulders to the beat and laughed like an absolute goofball. In a more somber moment, DiFrance introduced a new song about clinic violence that addressed the recent bombing of a Birmingham women's clinic and the murder of an abortion doctor, Barnett Slepian, in DiFranco's hometown of Buffalo, New York. The audience was silent as DiFranco described in emotional terms the wounds of a nurse whose...
...fact, Joffe owes a little of the tone to the Coen Brothers, borrowing both an occasional snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being...
...bring the review down to earth. While the movie is generally well-written, often funny, only the final twists allow things to just squeak into an ending before turning irredeemably tiresome. Everyone seems overly confident in the script's zinginess and protean plotting--and therefore gets lazy...
...Most Jaded Police Sergeant in the World, DeGeneres does her usual deadpan routine, often mistaken for a dry reading of the script...gets tiresome, even more quickly because the set piece one-liner barbs evoke a senile or non-acting star (Brando or the Beatles) who can only film one line per take. Although the numbing sarcasm seems so sick that it ultimately becomes appropriate...
...nation, a delayed adolescence. Which is exactly what Pearl is experiencing in the movie. And so, what fascinated me was the chance to look at both the period, and at this woman, in a multi-faceted way. And it was also a challenge, because the '60s are so often done poorly, in a one dimensional, stereotypical way. So I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try and tell a story using a period that is so often cliched...