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gwenfrankenstien) wrote2010-10-03 04:17 pm
gwenfrankenstien) wrote2010-10-03 04:17 pm
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Rock and roll is a fucking odour.
SO I SAW TRIGGER YESTERDAY OMG.
This is the movie that was going to be 45s, a Hard Core Logo sequel in which Joe and Billy are getting older and don't know how to deal. But Hugh and Callum were busy having TV careersif starring in Shattered counts as a career and also something about the script felt wrong, so they reworked it into a movie about a girl band instead.
Yeah. That's right. This is HCL with Toronto ladies instead of Vancouver dudes. Ever since I heard the premise I've been waiting for this to come out so I could buy a DVD and vid it to Rebel Girl, because how perfect would that be? But then. They used that song in the movie. Seriously, they know what I'm thinking.
This movie stars Molly Parker as Kat, who used to be Billy, and is a recovering alcoholic who lives in LA and has a steady job and looks like she's got her life together; and Tracy Wright, as Vic, who used to be Joe, and is a recovering junkie who's still making music in Toronto and looks like she's barely getting by. They're best-friends-for-life, and up until ten years ago, they were Trigger, Toronto's first ladies of punk. They haven't even spoken since then.
They're both fucking kickass tough rocker chicks, but as we get to know them we see that they're actually really vulnerable tragically broken people. (Of course they are, this is a Bruce McDonald film.) They know they love each other but they don't quite know what they mean by that. The Toronto Star called it "Thelma and Louise with guitars", but it isn't at all, there just isn't anything to compare it to. Thelma and Louise is just the only serious movie about female friendships that anyone can think of. (MAKE MORE OF THESE, WORLD.)
It's set in the same universe as HCL-- CKR has a brief cameo as Billy. (But Joe isn't here, so there's nothing here to contradict the original ending if you're like me and feel like changing that is sort of cheating.) The cast is basically a list of The Usual Suspects, which I have to say I kind of love. (Don McKellar's cameo is basically a shout out to Twitch City fans. He's very clearly not Curtis, but he is sitting in a filthy apartment eating cereal and wearing a very familiar blue-and-white bathrobe while he talks to Molly Parker...)
Also... This is Tracy Wright's swan song. She died three months after they wrapped. They filmed it in nine days, because they knew she was sick. It really comes through in her character at points, and you're not sure if you're crying for Vic or for Tracy. I love her in everything I've seen her in, but when the reviews say her performance here is fucking letter-perfect and gorgeous, they're not just saying that 'cos she's gone.
So at the end I went up and thanked Bruce McDonald for making this movie. For not making it about Joe and Billy, because it wouldn't quite have worked and anyway that original ending is important to lots of people; and for making a movie about girls from Toronto, because that never happens, and making it absolutely not about them fighting over a guy or somesuch bullshit. (...And then I walked around in a sort of daze for the next bit because I talked to Bruce McDonald.)
ANYWAY THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS. If you are like me and you love any of the following: Awesome ladies being awesome; fictional rock bands; Toronto; indie movies; and Bruce McDonald making movies starring all his friends.... Go see this if and when you get a chance. I have no idea if it is going to get wide release, or even get shown outside of Toronto, but I fucking hope it is.
This is the movie that was going to be 45s, a Hard Core Logo sequel in which Joe and Billy are getting older and don't know how to deal. But Hugh and Callum were busy having TV careers
Yeah. That's right. This is HCL with Toronto ladies instead of Vancouver dudes. Ever since I heard the premise I've been waiting for this to come out so I could buy a DVD and vid it to Rebel Girl, because how perfect would that be? But then. They used that song in the movie. Seriously, they know what I'm thinking.
This movie stars Molly Parker as Kat, who used to be Billy, and is a recovering alcoholic who lives in LA and has a steady job and looks like she's got her life together; and Tracy Wright, as Vic, who used to be Joe, and is a recovering junkie who's still making music in Toronto and looks like she's barely getting by. They're best-friends-for-life, and up until ten years ago, they were Trigger, Toronto's first ladies of punk. They haven't even spoken since then.
They're both fucking kickass tough rocker chicks, but as we get to know them we see that they're actually really vulnerable tragically broken people. (Of course they are, this is a Bruce McDonald film.) They know they love each other but they don't quite know what they mean by that. The Toronto Star called it "Thelma and Louise with guitars", but it isn't at all, there just isn't anything to compare it to. Thelma and Louise is just the only serious movie about female friendships that anyone can think of. (MAKE MORE OF THESE, WORLD.)
It's set in the same universe as HCL-- CKR has a brief cameo as Billy. (But Joe isn't here, so there's nothing here to contradict the original ending if you're like me and feel like changing that is sort of cheating.) The cast is basically a list of The Usual Suspects, which I have to say I kind of love. (Don McKellar's cameo is basically a shout out to Twitch City fans. He's very clearly not Curtis, but he is sitting in a filthy apartment eating cereal and wearing a very familiar blue-and-white bathrobe while he talks to Molly Parker...)
Also... This is Tracy Wright's swan song. She died three months after they wrapped. They filmed it in nine days, because they knew she was sick. It really comes through in her character at points, and you're not sure if you're crying for Vic or for Tracy. I love her in everything I've seen her in, but when the reviews say her performance here is fucking letter-perfect and gorgeous, they're not just saying that 'cos she's gone.
So at the end I went up and thanked Bruce McDonald for making this movie. For not making it about Joe and Billy, because it wouldn't quite have worked and anyway that original ending is important to lots of people; and for making a movie about girls from Toronto, because that never happens, and making it absolutely not about them fighting over a guy or somesuch bullshit. (...And then I walked around in a sort of daze for the next bit because I talked to Bruce McDonald.)
ANYWAY THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS. If you are like me and you love any of the following: Awesome ladies being awesome; fictional rock bands; Toronto; indie movies; and Bruce McDonald making movies starring all his friends.... Go see this if and when you get a chance. I have no idea if it is going to get wide release, or even get shown outside of Toronto, but I fucking hope it is.
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Would you spoil me for the ending if I asked very sweetly? I know Bruce McDonald's work well enough to know I shouldn't go in unspoiled. If you'd rather keep such data out of your comments, please send me a message? Thanks.
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*waits for it to fall off of the back of the internet, as she is sure no distribution deals will exist for it to her area*