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Being a black man that's used to movies like Boyz N the Hood and the Spike flicks, I figured I'd have a hard time enduring a bunch of bratty priviledged white kids bemoaning suburb life in movies like these. But loneliness is universal - and disdain for hypocrisy is also universal.. so I found myself enjoying the flick. I especially enjoyed the actress that played Enid (I recognized her immediately as the daughter in American Beauty, one of my favorite flicks). I think she's cute - I wouldn't run to her like I would Rosie Perez or Nia Long, but I would turn my head if she walked down the street. She's very much the un- American Pie, the unElection (the girl that played the lead role). She's dark, brooding, negative about the fakeness of life and people, and I could feel her on that. I also liked the nerd character - the same actor in another great film Con Air. Their relationship was very odd - a teenager hanging out with a dork 40 year old? - but I could see that she felt safe with this guy, because she felt she was the one in power, no fear of rejection, and he fed her curiosity in little things she's always been curious about - wierd postwar ad posters, ragtime jazz, and other old old things.
What I didnt' get was the busride. I thougth I figured out why the man got on the bus, but where was she going? What did the bus symbolize to her? She didn't have any plans, no future, she didn't know where she was going.. was the bus death? Was it a rush hour bus - next stop heaven? And what happens to the nerd? What did he get out of the ordeal of messing around with a teenie chick only to push her away for the supposed girl of your dreams, only to push HER off to get with the teenie, only to have the teenie push him off - only to wind back where he started from? Any catharsis from that? any lessons learned?
Cook's chicken was once Coon's chicken, eh? Wonder what other products have their dark secrets.. things that make you go hmmmmm..
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