My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Gus van Sant's followup to his breakthrough Drugstore Cowboy is one of the damndest things anyone's ever made and called a movie. There were points within the film where I was lost on how to take it. But you know what? I found that kind of exciting, the mark of an adventurous filmmaker who is up for taking any risk he can think to throw at himself. Starts as an appealing and hilarious slacker comedy wherein all the slackers just happen to be homeless rent boys; subsequently, it traipses through Shakespeare, road movie, love story, buddy drama, familial-dysfunction drama and (for one brief moment) gay porno without even stopping to check its mirrors. Ultimately, it's about displacement and the search for anywhere that feels like home (our own private Idaho, indeed). Keanu Reeves is fairly tolerable, given the circumstances; River Phoenix obviously died too young. The early smash cut to the falling house: Best. Scene. Ever.
Grade: B
Gus van Sant's followup to his breakthrough Drugstore Cowboy is one of the damndest things anyone's ever made and called a movie. There were points within the film where I was lost on how to take it. But you know what? I found that kind of exciting, the mark of an adventurous filmmaker who is up for taking any risk he can think to throw at himself. Starts as an appealing and hilarious slacker comedy wherein all the slackers just happen to be homeless rent boys; subsequently, it traipses through Shakespeare, road movie, love story, buddy drama, familial-dysfunction drama and (for one brief moment) gay porno without even stopping to check its mirrors. Ultimately, it's about displacement and the search for anywhere that feels like home (our own private Idaho, indeed). Keanu Reeves is fairly tolerable, given the circumstances; River Phoenix obviously died too young. The early smash cut to the falling house: Best. Scene. Ever.
Grade: B
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