Wristcutters: A Love Story 2007

loved the ending.

Such a nice and atmospheric movie.

I think the problem that so many indie movies seem to have is that they have an interesting backdrop for a movie with a specific ending in mind but they have problems filling out the middle part of the movie. This movie was fairly interesting when we see what happened to the main character and are introduced to his world and new acquaintances. But then there is just some random stuff that seems like filler until we get toward the final resolution. I think this movie needed a little more something - maybe darker, maybe more absurd, I don't know. It sure could have used more John Hawkes.

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This turned out to be a delightfully good movie. Worth a watch if you have the time.

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Shave us, Messiah!

That's Nanuck, she's mute. She does this throat singing, she's hilarious.

Wristcutters is like a time that happens randomly around you, making you feel more at home than any plan you could've ever concocted.

The vibe of this story centered around young souls bumming around purgatory took me back to 80s when I discovered indie movies and how they make life feel better. (The Gods Have Gone Crazy, Repo Man, Dogs in Space, I Heard the Mermaids Singing, My Beautiful Laundrette, and Arizona Dream soon after...)

There is an innocence to this film that contains absolutely zero naïveté and so it's pure without being childish, which is the rarest of ethers in cinema.

Oh yeah, and there's Tom Waits!? Are you kidding me!? :star_struck: And the kid from Almost Famous? Fugit about it!

"Nothing happens until it doesn't matter"

Damn, I feel I connected with this movie on some level, but overall felt somewhat underwhelmed by it? There are some real stand-out scenes like the kid threatening suicide until Eugene explains the meaning of life only to get smacked, and the quirky song in the car and the blackhole under the car seat. Somehow I feel the movie was too on the nose but also too obtuse with some of it's messaging? I'm not sure, I'm very much lost with my thoughts on this movie. I'll come back after processing it and maybe reading the short story that it was based on. Strange, the definition of a cult darling.

Found the style to be very stereotypical (eg deadpan suicide talk with Joy Division playing) and the suicide theme felt aimed at a teenage mindset. It's wasn't funny, dark or meaningful.