I picked up this movie with Max and I was a bit worried about the the Rating. The Rating said Rated R because the movie portrays how sad life really is. Well for once in my cinematic life I am happy Max and I watched this movie together.
I read the warning on the label and watched this movie always thinking that something was going to pop out of no where and say; "Turn This Movie Off". I hate horror and shock and I was expecting it with every twist in the movie. But that never really came.
It was a dark movie for the most part. It was also stark. We suddenly realized the film was shot 4 miles from our house. The movie was shot in the Industrial district of Portland with some scenes in what we believe to be down by the river in St. Johns. It could have also been in Forest Park. That was part of the fun.
I never know actresses and actors but the leading lady (: Michelle Williams,)in this film was fantastic. She is a goth dropout nomad heading to Alaska searching for her dream. Who can blame her for that. She finds no luck along the way. She also loses the other star of the movie that being Lucy The Dog.
But somewhere along the line she finds a seven dollar friendship that is the borderline beautiful. This from a rent (Wally Dalton) a cop guarding seemingly nothing in the middle of nowhere.
As a parent the movie industry kinds of guides us toward the movies we see with our kids. This one was a stretch to see with my son. Ironically there is a bit of a lesson here that life isn't always perfect. There is beauty in failure and despair.
From the real movie critics.
Synopsis: On the heels of her critically lauded OLD JOY, Kelly Reichardt delivers another deeply resonant portrait of a dying America with WENDY AND LUCY. In OLD JOY, two men provided the heart and soul of the story. This time, the film is centered on a young woman, played with utter conviction and selflessness by Michelle Williams (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN). Williams is Wendy, a down-on-her-luck woman who has driven across-country with her dog, Lucy, in search of a better life in Alaska. Wendy can barely support this journey, and when her car breaks down in Oregon and she becomes separated from Lucy, her predicament becomes even more dire. In a world that doesn't seem to know she even exists, Wendy befriends a local security guard (Wally Dalton), who gives her a tiny fraction of hope. Considering this film together with OLD JOY, it's obvious that Reichardt has shot up in the ranks of American auteurs. She is becoming a master of minor features that feel like the best short stories, a sort of cinematic Raymond Carver. Credit is obviously bestowed upon the marvelous Williams, who is in almost every shot of the film, and who delivers an astonishingly honest performance. But everything about this film reeks of truth, most noticeably Sam Levy's restrained but beautiful cinematography, and Reichardt's patient editing. WENDY AND LUCY is a tribute to marginalized characters that the movies, and the real world, would usually rather ignore
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