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Hurlyburly - New Line Platinum SeriesRating:
Release Date: 22 June, 1999 Retail Price: $24.98 OUR Price: $21.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Hurlyburly - New Line Platinum Series Reviews
Every REAL MAN in America should see this movie
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by so many one star reviews of this amazing movie. Main character Eddie leads a chaotic life with no direction that seems to only find an inkling of comprehension of his condition in the last 10 minutes. No surprise that so many people write these characters off long before reaching the end; aren't we all this chaotic and demanding of instant gratification? Don't we want to identify with something good in at least ONE character in this very difficult film? Maybe we all aren't on coke 24/7, or molesting 15 year olds when we get the chance; but haven't we all done something we're not so proud of? Haven't we all taken years to figure out what our own personal damage is & how to deal with it?
Well, perhaps not all of us; but anyone who's dealt with any addiction issues will recognize this story. Scrambling for any substance, relationship, philosophy or pleasure that will satiate our incessant inner hunger. Gaging our own actions by the ever so minute distance above the appalling actions of the other lost souls we surround ourself with. This is a movie for people who don't need to be spoonfed something sweet and irrelevant anymore. I think every man in America should see this movie about men who don't understand what it means to be a real man. A film about how damaging not dealing with our emotions (whether through outbursts of violence, snide deflating coolness or semantic jabbering) can be for the real person behind the "hip" exterior we are supposed to adopt. Like it or not, there's alot of encouragment from our culture to become one of these "successful", swinging, hip, partyhounds; a fake caricature of life that leaves you empty. If you can identify with any of the pointless behavior in this film, maybe you'll be diligent enough to figure it out. Maybe you'll break through the programming and become something not so unforgivingly "masculine". Or maybe you'll see Hurlyburly and GET IT.
Okay film, rotten transfer
I have said it before, but I could watch a film in which Anna Paquin reads the phone book for ninety minutes. And while Hurlyburly is marginally more interesting than that, the transfer provided on New Line's single-sided, single-layer edition of the film lets the side down very badly. The film is mildly interesting at best, given that it is about watching four grown men act like self-destructive twelve year olds, but when half of the backgrounds are showing severe posterisation and/or macro-blocking, something is really, really wrong. If you own a CRT-based television that is eighty centimetres from corner to corner like I used to (preferably less), then you may be able to withstand the transfer in spite of this problem. If you own a 106 centimetre plasma TV like I do now, then run, don't walk, from this DVD. Your eyes will thank you later. I only still own it because at least Anna Paquin is in focus throughout her brief scenes.
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