Fishbowl

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What is the name of the song that plays at the party scene as well as the end credits.. please..I'm in love with it!! I've looked everywhere and also have played the the soundtrack provided by Spotify.. the song is not there. Has anyone else come across this problem?

Initially I was reminded of the virgin suicides but as it kinda plodded along, was less impressed. Filmmakers tried hard to make it ethereal... The last 15 minutes were probably the best in that the story finally fell together. I was disappointed that pops didn't lose it & smack the evangelist upside the head w/the shovel ... & liked that the girls finally got smart & headed "west" for new starts ...

Kicked the can and triggered memories of my own catholic school daze in a rush and a flush. Back in the days when the only play at recess was: go out long. I remember loving the girl's uniforms; especially the ones for gym class. The way I'd always feel hormonally pensive during morning mass. How Jesus' wounds looked so feminine up there on that splintery cross. The stained glass for a stained class scarlet-lettered by original sin. So glad I deprogrammed myself soon after graduation. I digress. Considering that the majority of this film's cast was in fact composed mostly of newcomers, I think they pulled it off. No, it's not as glossy or lachrymose as the Virgin Suicides, or as cracked out wacky as Take Shelter, two I'd compare it to, if only on a thematic and atmospheric level. Yes, there are a handful of half-daft moments (mostly offered up by the ancillary and tertiary characters, overuse of trans-fat yellow hues and some very poor framing) but these are overshadowed by solid, emotive performances by the father and three sisters. Belle, in particular, is incandescent and has the kind of on screen presence that makes you take pause. Hell's Belle in that Devil's costume would make even Dante blush. She's her own inferno. Dug the way the family's dull home is sort of the objective correlative of a Christian psalm about the meek inheriting the Earth. Deeply dug the rapture imagery, the father's hypocritical self-deceit manifested in recurring battles with bottles, the dueling themes of escape, and the well-timed/executed tragic flashback scenes, too. The televangelist Peltz was spot on realistic with the old compensate for my lack of sincerity with avarice-fueled charisma. He had the swagger of a young Jimmy Swaggart. I also loved the haunting soundtrack/score. The spectral vocals reminded me a little bit of the creepy nuns singing some of the darker hymns from back in the day (Under the Weight of the Wood comes to mind). The at times dirge-like music complimented the languid pacing of the film, not unlike the watery church wine used to do for that dry paper wafer during communion. Amen!

This is kind of a surreal watch. A greiving father has to raise 3 growing teenage girls. He has turned to religion but to the most extreme/ rapture level. However, these 3 teenagers are being rebellious & going against their father's wishes. The foreboding feeling is present throughout this film. The mystery of the mother's death is part of the big reveal at the end.

When I was about sixteen my younger sister and I got off the school bus in the afternoon and when we walked home from the stop we couldn't find our parents. We immediately looked at each other and fearfully whispered "The Rapture!" No lie. We believed Jesus had come and taken our parents but that we were somehow not worthy to go. (My sister still believes this over forty years later--I rejected it by the time I was nineteen and today realize that the event occurred during the Great Tribulation when Nero was Caesar of Rome.) Anyway, I watch 360+ films a year, and never before today have I lain down for an afternoon nap after watching one and dreamed additional scenes--plausible situations that fit well with those inside the actual film. This gem is 'The Virgin Suicides' meets 'First Reformed' meets 'Higher Ground', but then again, it is really none of those films but stands well on its own with no comparisons (except for beautiful blonde daughters as with TVS). In a weird twist, the victims of the televangelist portrayed in this film are Catholics and not your run-of-the-mill Pentecostals or Baptists who are normally taken with such ideas. (I have known Roman Catholics to divert from church teaching and accept Darbyism, also called the Rapture Doctrine, so the scenario is plausible). Overall this is a depressing film with little to no humor, but the entire cast drives it forward breathtakingly, from the teenage punk boyfriend in his big bubba truck to the three sweet sisters to the guilt-ridden father to the gentle-spirited priest to the self-righteous church congregation and rural neighbors of the suffering family.

The "fishbowl" hit very close to home for me ! I was raised in a very religious household. I have also lived in a small town were everyone knows everyone. Based on my experience I found that the film definitely got it right, how twisted religion can make people, and how the judgments of a small town can turn on someone. I personally have dealt with my past. Also like the main characters I in essence just drove away !! I loved the comic relief scene of the girls going door to door !!! All in all I really enjoyed the movie !!

It's clear to see what the Kinigopoulos siblings were aiming for. Take the aesthetic of 'The Virgin Suicides', the film-making style of 'The Tree Of Life' & the plot of 'Take Shelter' and simmer for 80 minutes. They didn't pull it off. The film has a point, albeit a rather banal one, but it is buried so deep under mounds of unneccesary style that it doesn't come through. What could be an interesting backdrop to this tale of faith gone wrong is so catastrophically underplayed that the final revelations mean nothing. I'm intrigued enough by this directing team that I will be looking out for what comes next, but this film probably isn't worth it.

A seemingly very religious man with three daughters, living in a small christian village struggles with life after his wife's death and the repossession of his house by the bank. The community hates him for his past, his church wants him gone. His youngest daughter struggles with mean remarks at school. His daughters are obviously less religious than he is, and cope with their mom's death in other ways. After vivid ominous dreams, he turns to scripture in desperation, seeking redemption and forgiveness in every way possible, eventually falling into the hands of a TV-preacher that foretells the end of the world but actually scams him out of his last money with a box of flyers, buttons and a VHS-tape full of empty words. His daughters have no other option then to follow in his last desperate attempt to reunite them with his wife, their mother. As the movie progresses, it becomes clear why nobody likes him anymore. Little hints are given and the dreadful event that took the life of his wife, who seemed to be loved and liked by everyone. Even though the movie is fictional, the problems that the man has are the problems of many. Too many... and in this case, the worst possible happens and there is no turning back nor apologizing. In the end, you also realize that he will not nor ever can change. Top notch drama, very well told, very well filmed and very recognizable theme.

It's a really engaging drama about a family falling apart because of the mother's death. 3 girls who attend a Catholic school have to deal with their father's depressed mental state, worsened by his growing religious obsession with a televangelist cult which he joins as a last ditch attempt at fixing things. The feeling of everything falling apart is prevailing throughout the entire movie. I didn't quite get the ending, it was all built on implications, but it was clear enough to make assumptions. I felt engaged in what's happening to the characters and felt their emotions. It's a nice, if only pretty depressing, movie.