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April 7, 2008
Movie Trailer: The Tracey Fragments
If there's one thing this world needs, its another mopey independent film. Ellen Page (Juno) stars in this film about...get this, (straight from IMDb):
"15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog."
Yeah, this is a film that just begged to be made. Who knows, maybe it will be brilliant (it did get nominated for a pile of Genies). Maybe it will be exactly what it looks like - a bunch of depressed Canadians making an ugly movie because in the film industry ugly=important. This is precisely the kind of movies that get hailed by online critics and undergraduate dimwits as being "intelligent" and "an experience", while those living in the real world roll their eyes and shrug their shoulders.

Ellen Page is a notable young actress and, thanks to her Juno following in the States, she will bring some attention to the piece regardless if its good or not. Here's to hoping against the odds that this thing actually doesn't suck.


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Screenwriters: Marureen Medved
Director: Bruce McDonald (Queer as Folk)
Actor: Ellen Page (Juno)

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posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 5:43 PM




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2 Comments:

Anonymous pgepps said...

OK, there are going to be lots and lots of arguments made in favor of this movie that have "because I want to believe there's a *reason* to show repeated and brutally exploitative partial nudity of a simulated 15-year-old" written all over them.

Then there are the ignorant, like the first comment on IMDB I saw:

"the unusual formal nature of the film" in having a divided screen.

Obviously from someone wanting to sound cultured, but whose culture doesn't even reach the 70s, when such things were common enough....

geez

And, of course, there will be those which are both.... and those voices within us all....

But here's the rub: at the end of the day, does that trailer give me any reason to believe there's story inside the flavor? Or is it telling me, from the very beginning (even assuming the IMDB tagline is just a terribly, terribly ill-conceived teaser), that the flavor is it, the seeming "point" and "edge" being nearly as much a non-issue as notions like plot and plausibility?

It's gonna suck. And if it doesn't, I'll get blown away by it.

Do I win an equivocation prize?

Cheers,
PGE

April 7, 2008 at 7:00 PM  
Anonymous Scott Nehring said...

Don't get anything snagged on that fence you're straddling.

I'd steer clear of the comments at IMDb unless you really need to find out what high school kids are thinking.

April 7, 2008 at 7:41 PM  

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