Posts Tagged ‘Emile Hirsch’
The Mudge Boy (2003)
Great performance by Emile Hirsch, who more recently appeared in Into the Wild. He perfectly captures the impossible isolation, confusion, and tumult of an adolescent wrestling with his mother’s sudden death, his father’s stoic ineptitude, and his sexuality, all in a rural middle-of-nowhere populated by an older group of (unfortunately stereotypical) redneck teens. However, like the pet chicken, the movie seemed to die a premature death–another 20 minutes or so to add some denouement would have helped. And what was up with the rape scene? As in Brokeback Mountain, the activities depicted were the Hollywood equivalent of Bruce Willis surviving a fall from a 20 story building–a normal person would have needed surgery afterwards. That being the case, the perp would have been arrested etc. Ditto for the fag-bashing hate crimes content. So I’m not giving any props for the script or directing.
