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Dear, Wendy 10/10
Okay. This film is about a group of young losers. Pacifists. In a small mining town. Who start a gun club. Really. That's what it's about.
It is a uniquely beautiful film. It's hard for me to sit here and describe it though. It has a real timeless and placeless quality - although you gather along the way that it is set in a small southern town in the present day.
It almost has the feel of a stageplay, in that the small 'town center' is the main setting (and very significant to the story) with just a few other settings.
I don't want to get too much into the story - let it reveal itself to whoever decides to watch it. There are no well known actors in it other than Bill Pullman who plays the town sheriff - very well I might add. All of the performances are excellent. Cinematography - beautiful.
The club goes down into an underground facility at one of the abandoned mines to shoot their guns. They have this really touching philosophy that if their guns 'see the light of day' then they will want to follow their true nature. So they carry their guns with them everywhere but only take them out at 'the club.'
Things don't go exactly as planned for idealists, though. Let's just say the film has some Peckinpah moments.
It's a great film and I recommend it highly. It's one I plan to purchase for keeps.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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