Saturday, November 04, 2006

Tideland

Terry Gilliam is my hero.

The movie starts with a plea from the director to let go a little bit and find our inner child. He looked through the lens of childhood to make this amazing film and we should look through a similar lens to watch and enjoy it.

So many things are right about this movie. We have Jeff Bridges (The Dude!!), who is PERFECT. We have freaky characters (especially Dell, played by uber-tall Janet McTeer) and we have a dream-like photography, bizarro (even gruesome) situations and an innocent, sing-song skipping toward death down the rabbit hole feel that makes all the horror and uncomfortableness seem like, well, childsplay.

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