DistBURBSing Behavior
08. Nov, 2006 
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Little Children
A Field Day
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Tis so fitting that actor turned director Todd Field probably made his mos memorable screen appearance as piano man Nick Nightingale in Kubrick’s final work, Eyes Wide Shut. His directorial debut In The Bedroom not only reeks of brilliance and updog, but of Kubrick himself. Like Stan The Man, Field has a great sense of film pacing, in a way that it leaves the viewer constantly unsettled, yet glued to their seats. But unlike Kubes, Field works more in the mundane and not the spectacle, yet he somehow turns the mundane into a spectacle. And with his second feature, Little Children, Field continues to show why he should be considered one of the America’s brightest talents (hispecially since Sofia Coppola’s star is on the verge of losing its luminance).
Children‘s mundane tale, spelled out by a continuous sardonic voice over by Fronline‘s Will Lyman, deals with the affair between an unhappy housewife and an unhappy househusband. The usual spouse-cheating events are thrown up on the screen (and yes, since Kate Winslet is in it, there’s a 98% chance she will show her boobs… and yes, she does), but it’s the extra curricular activities filling up the rest of the picture, like that of the juss released from prison pedophile (Kelly Leak/Jackie Earle Haley) adjusting to a community that fears him, that is the ticket, and that is what sets this one apart from the rest of the by the numbers infidelity films that come out year after year. In a bustanutshell, you won’t feel cheated by this cheating
Unsatisfied with this?: Netflix Unfaithful [trailer]
Possible Porno Name: Little Children of the Porn
Entertainment Meekly: the mag that I love to hate, but cunt stop readin profiles Kelly Leak’s return to filmdom after being a cellar dweller for as long as the Bad News Bears were w/o Coach Morris Buttermaker
Apt MPupil3: ‘Running Scared‘ [d] by Roy Orbison
John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show
until next thyme, the balcony is clothed…
