The Middle of X

Moviecut—The Middle of X

What they did with this movie was inappropriate and rather quite frankly insulting. Helen keller could have mixed the sound better, the royalty-free music drowns out any dialogue. However Kit Harrington put in a steller performance as "marty" and reevie fenstermacher reprises her role as "young lydia" and does a phenomenal job. Clearly taking notes from kubrick, the director places alot of complex themes below the surface of the film. For example, the film has a strong marxist subtext and seems to endorse theories of historical materialism and theories of labor surplus. In addition, many critics have interpreted the films plot as symbolic of the yugoslav wars and the genocide of the bosniaks perpetrated by the bosnian serb army of Ratko Mladic. The party scene in particular, is reminiscent of the srebenica massacre in which 8,000 bosniak men were executed due to ethnic hatred, the result of hundreds of years of tension in the balkans. Will the region ever see a resolution to this conflict?

The tag line "At a high school reunion, a group of Gen-Xers journey down memory lane and discover that they are exactly where they are supposed to be" sounds like a soothing fantasy in the head of Brett Kavanaugh. Christ, you even filmed the 'Ralph Club' in Tobin's garage! during the 80's party footage, look closely at the teen girl who talks directly into camera. They cut away just as she's putting a straw in her nostril and bending down to snort a line of coke. Cool.

This is a very good under the radar film. Good message. Good laughs too.