While I am an insane movie buff most of the time, I have gotten to the point where I am okay in just watching a movie for the sheer fun of it. I don't have to own every movie I enjoy...
Sometimes, however, that plan fails and there are movies that I watch and then repeatedly rent before I end up buying them. Two of those films are Wristcutters: A Love Story and Kinky Boots.
"Why am I leaving you? I'm afraid in this life, Lola has always been drawn to the most daring, most exciting, most...sexy. There is tell of a mystical place just north of here called North Hampton. Exciting, because it contains a shoe factory struggling to survive against all odds. Daring, because it's run by a man brave enough to recognize that a factory is its people, not it's bricks. And sexy, well, because now I work there. And the craftsman of fantasy, for ladies, gentlemen and those of you who are yet to make up your mind... tonight I give you The Kinky Boot Factory"
Wristcutters: A Love Story
The movie is clearly unique. And I think this is what draws me back to it time and time again. It stars Patrick Fugit which was probably the first reason I was interested in the trailer, alongside Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight's Tale) and Shea Whigham. The movie is fantastic because it is unique. It puts a comic stance on suicide...but a comedy that has a much darker undertone. Think about it. When you commit suicide, what if you don't get to escape so easily? What if you go into this purgatory-type place? It's not heaven, it's not hell, it's not your old life. It's a barren desert where you can't smile. You have to work, you have to live in shitty places and maybe you're car's headlights don't start. The main character kills himself after his girlfriend dumps him and he ends up here. After finding out that his girlfriend then killed herself, he searches out to find her, joined by an odd man (who is delightfully fun) and a girl who is trying to contact the people in charge because she is there by mistake (accidental overdose). It goes through a series of adventures and character drama between the trio and eventually they stumble upon a camp full of people who can do miracles. Little things. It all leads up to some crazy "drink the kool-aid" cult that think that if they kill themselves again, they'll somehow become gods or something along those lines. It really puts things into perspective while being entertaining and comical. 8/10
Kinky Boots
I love this movie. It's a British film that I rented thanks to Jemima Rooper who is a fantastic actress in the former British TV series Hex. She's barely in the film. But the movie stands on its own starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity, 2012) and Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Smokin Aces)...and a little role by Nick Frost. The movie is about a man named Charlie who decides he is going to leave his father's shoe factory business. But before he can tell his father he's leaving, his father dies and leaves the factory to him. He's stuck doing a job he doesn't want to do. Not to mention, the factory is dying because people aren't getting crafted shoes anymore. He runs into a drag queen named Lola and Charlie is given a great idea. Lola's shoes are women's shoes and Lola (Ejiofor) is clearly a man (former-boxer). "How much do you weigh?" "The right amount. How much do you drink?" So, with some resistance along the way, Charlie and Lola work at making a fashion line of shoes for Men, Women, And Those Who Have Yet To Make Up Their Mind at the shoe week. It dives into their back stories and how they disappointed their fathers, how they push one another to be who they want to be and the cliches of gender roles. It is a fantastic film. 9/10
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