Well I guess that's what I did because I found myself watching a movie on Hulu and figured, "why not"I'm starting off my reviewing experience fittingly with a movie that takes place at the end.That end is death; but not just any death.
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Wristcutters: A Love Story is about what happens after you commit suicide. This movie was way down on my radar. I kinda sorta remember a trailer of it from way back and it sounded like an interesting. Here I go...
Wristcutters, answers that question, "What would happen if I killed myself today?" Turns out, its a Black-Comedy.The story starts with Zia (Patrick Fugit) starting his day. He gets out of bed starts to tidy his apartment. Cleans up the dirty clothes, vacuums, dusts, and waters the plants. After completing his tiding affair he goes into the bathroom and slits his wrist. Zia then fall to the floor only to find with his last breath that he missed a corner full of dust. Figures.
We then find Zia working in a pizza joint in a not so together kinda place. Turns out that as a punishment for trying to end his bland everyday life he now gets to spend all eternity doing exactly what he was trying to get away from. Only this place is worse. Everyone seems to get to hold onto some aspect of their death. Zia gets to have scars on his wrist to show off. A girl who stuck her head in a gas oven is kinda bluish, and so forth. Also it seems that everything in this world is broken or discarded. So you try to discard your body and now all you have to wear is clothes that someone threw out. You wanna car, all you can find is a beater that was given to a dump a few decades ago. Even the houses kinda seem like they are on their last legs. Another thing about this starless universe (yes no stars in the sky at night) is you cant smile... at all... even if you read an awesome review about a movie and are completely enthralled. You Cant Smile. Other than that it seems like an average place. Beer seems to be everywhere. So it couldn't be called Hell, could it?
Well after Zia finds out about his former girlfriend Desiree, Zia and his friend Eugene start their journey across this land to find her. So in other words this movie is what you would get if you took Road Trip with Dead Like Me, and tossed in a little Everything Is Illuminated.
So while on their journey in a old beater with a black hole under the passenger seat (you know that place where everything you lose in your car goes) they pick up a hitchhiker Mikal who is in search for the P.I.C. (People In Charge) who control everything in this world. So now we have a trio all searching for something. One searching for lost love, one trying to right a wrong, and the other just looking for something better to do.
I truly enjoyed this movie, even more so seeing how I really didn't know anything about it going in. It's a nice twist on the "go out and get the girl" flicks. It both made me laugh and look a little deeper into myself. The whole thing has a "Killer" soundtrack that really adds to the visuals thrown through this epic landscape.
Also I don't know how it was so low on my radar, I wouldn't say that its staring a whole list of block busters but each and every speaking character I recognized from some TV show or movie.
For example one of the cops you see in the middle of the movie is none other than Ron Swanson from NBC's Parks and Rec.
I mean he kinda let himself go for this role but at least he's not bald with a disturbing head deformity...
Oh so after this he ends up In Indiana huh...
I give this movie 4 outta 5 lost sunglasses
Go see it
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