DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Little Children

  • Loukas · 2 years ago
    Great movie for sure. Winslet is for real.
  • H. Stewart · 2 years ago
    I agree, a great film, and for me a real step-up from In the Bedroom for "that prick piano player" Todd Field. Normally I can't stand voice-over narration in movies, but here I thought it was great. I wrote at the time that it perfectly "complement[s] the film's visual elegance with an aural literary elegance" but now I think the real reason was that it was Will Lyman, which I didn't realize at the time. His Frontline narration is mesmerizing, he has such a wonderful voice.

    Agreed, Haley & Sommerville are fantastic, as are Winslet (a revelation for me of her talents, before this she was just another of those leading ladies who blend into one another) and Wilson, who held his own in the otherwise lousy Hard Candy. (By the way, is that him in those Gap ads with "anything you can wear I can wear better..."?)

    Did you think that Larry had some serious homosexual underpinnings? I remember thinking that at the time that I saw it, although I can't come up with antecdotal evidence to support it now. And Winslet's husband caught masturbating has to be one of the funniest images from a movie last year.
  • Clayton L. White · 2 years ago
    Yeah that is Wilson in those Gap ads, kind of brings him down a notch. I've always liked Winslet, but that's mostly because of Heavenly Creatures. As far as Larry's latent homosexuality goes, I personally didn't see it. I know you pointed that out in your review of it, maybe I missed it, but I didn't catch on to that fact. I don't think it would be a stretch to think that about his character, but, for me, the film never really alluded to it. I just saw him as a man that was broken by his own past, and trying to deal with that by making himself out to be some kind of vigilante/savior for the neighborhood. I saw him driven more by his obsessions than his sexuality.

    By the way, I will watch anything that Todd Field does, simply because of his role in Eyes Wide Shut.
  • Clayton L. White · 2 years ago
    And yes, Winslet catching her husband masturbating is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.