Strike one off my list of movies to watch. Transamerica may be the strangest roadtrip movie I’ve ever seen. It’s definitely low-budget and wonderful in all its quirkiness. It reminds me of that other movie about transexualism — no, not Rocky Horror — but an HBO movie I saw one insomnia riddled night called Normal.
Felicity Huffman deserves all the kudos you could ever give an actor for doing a bang up job of convincing me that Sabrina ‘Bree’ Osborne, the woman she plays, was indeed once upon a time a Stanley Schup. Although I wish that when Bree got angry/upset her voice would transition into a lower tone instead of going up in a typical women wail. Just nitpicking. The rest of the movie I’m not so crazy about. Bree’s son, Toby, is cute in his New York rebelling ass-prostituting way but wavered too much between a worldly state of aloofness and being one big, lost child. The supporting cast remains caricatures, cut ups, whatever…
The story does come together pretty well, despite of or perhapes inspite of its hokey-ness. It’s not an in-your-face movie about the world of genderbending like Boys Don’t Cry and probably better off that way. The comedy is there and so are moments of “oh my god, this is so uncomfortable to watch”.
It’s also easy to get me to like a movie when they do shots of rural America viewed through dirty windscreens.
On a side note, I bought Munich along with Transamerica on my weekly trip to get dvds. My real goal was to watch Brokeback Mountain but the chinese dude selling dvds emphatically tells me, “Takda stok lah” when I asked for it. No better way to ensure everybody watches a movie than by having it banned, eh? My friend remarked that maybe all the gays in KL bought them dvds in bulk, had viewing parties and was distributing them as door gifts.
The Munich dvd is unwatcheable. Shit-ass quality and the guy never said a word. Asswipe will hear from me next week when I go back to buy Brokeback.