Netflix Pick of the week (8/1/07)
Big Bad Love (or, on blockbuster.com) is a movie based on Larry Brown’s short fiction, adapted and directed by Arliss Howard of Full Metal Jacket fame (Who is, incidentally, the grown up Scotty who’s a sport’s writer in “The Sandlot”), is “The staggering tale of one man’s relentless pursuit of imperfection.” It is the surreal tale of a consistently rejected Vietnam Veteran writer struggling to make ends meet, and keep reality separate from fiction. It is gut-wrenchingly funny, heart-wrenchingly sad, and just a tremendous independent film. The directorial style is vaguely similar to that of Spike Jonze’s Adaptation (which will be a Netflix Pick shortly, if you haven’t seen it, or it’s been awhile) and leaves you sometimes questioning what is actually happening, and what is merely happening in the character’s head. I love it, and you should too.