Monthly Archives: June 2011

Jon Gunn directs and edits, generally a deadly combination as the roles blur the line between the necessary and the interesting. His choices are solid enough yet confounded by everydayness – the mistake of rooting your story in average is preventing the dramatic from escaping the ordinary. There are interesting scenarios but distance prevents the audience from choosing sides and effectively connecting in a lasting way and that translates to forgettable; a sort of cinematic transcendental idealism that relegates the film to purposeful only to a handful of people who are intimate with the life experience of alcoholism, second changes, and keyways into forgiveness and justice beyond the self – for the rest, this is window dressing without ever getting off the sidewalk. Continue reading →