Trouble in Mind

While it was very stylish and quirky, with some wonderful characters and a fine cast to portray them. Unfortunately the "hero" of the story is a total douche bag that rapes 1 woman and then sets out to break up a family and run off with the woman who's half his age, at least. Found it very hard to pull for this disgusting human being. In the end, while I did enjoy much of it, it left me feeling very disappointed.

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Trouble in Mind

Its a long time ago, but I remember doing the PR for this for its UK release and taking Alan Rudolph around to press interviews. one or two of in the agency loved this film, and couldn't understand it when the National Critics seemed not to get it. We organised a dinner for them with Rudolph, and I remember being astonished by the lack of enthusiasm. All these years later I have just made my first feature (Which, whilst I am sure is not a patch on Trouble in Mind, takes as its purpose being unusual and (Hopefully) beautiful. I look forward to the DVD of trouble in mind. You just have to be on the wavelength of this beautiful film, and to remember that one day, people come to appreciate a film....but it can take 20 years.

Trouble in Mind is a masterpiece from Alan Rudolph - the most underrated movie director of USA. It's a great analysis of the amoral society where everyone is ready to sell a soul for his, his friend's or at least for his child's future. In the game of life only the ones wise enough to play with small bets survive. 80's were an afterglow of the 70's criticism against the weak but high developed systems. Although films like "To live and to die in L.A" got the most attention in this area, Trouble in Mind won't have to be ashamed no bit.

"Trouble in Mind" is one of those movies that only reveals its greatness about the third time you see it; a wealth of details which, on first viewing, strike the perceptive viewer as scatterbrained or irrelevant, unfold on closer inspection into a rich, lushly imagined fantasy world, and dialogue which at first sounds precious or forced becomes endlessly quotable. It's hard to be an Alan Rudolph "fan," as his work is decidedly uneven; but on this picture, which followed the critical and commercial success of "Choose Me," he is at the peak of his powers. And, if none of this convinces you, you should check this one out for the performances, not least among which is Divine's startling turn as coldblooded (male) gangster Hilly Blue (worthy of awards, in a better world than this).

"Trouble in Mind" is a moody and decidedly different film. Take your pick as to whether it's set in an alternate reality or a retro-future. Either way, the inhabitants of Rain City are drifters and lost people whose lives collide as they go on to whatever fate awaits them. Divine makes a surprisingly good bad guy, while Kristofferson is a little wooden but still fits the part. Worth seeing.

The forecast is overcast. Director Alan Rudolph sets the tone early on and TROUBLE IN MIND never once strikes a sour note. The cinematography is superb: the camera never stops moving, drifting slowly toward or pulling slowly away from the ex-con, Kristofferson, the country bumpkin-*-Big City thug, Carradine, his mentor, Morton, the naive engenue, Singer, the survivor, Bujold, or the king of queens, Divine. The story unfolds gradually, logically. The music is appropriately moody. THIS is the way to tell a story. Anyone seriously interested in writing or directing needs to add this one to their list of must-see movies. To miss it would be to miss out.