Welcome to Eddie's world. It exists at the very juncture where Hollywood meets the mountains, where the almost-rich and not-yet-famous live on cheap thrills and heady ambition while searching for true love and redemption.
" Do you ever have that experience where your thoughts are like these totally separate, totally self-sustaining phone booths and there's like this vast uninhabited shopping mall in your head? Do you ever have that experience?"
A very strange little film with famous actors, at times it feels as if having a story was not planned as this feels like a blizzard adaptation or a play that probably couldn't have been an interesting film. the characters actions don't make sense and the amount of dialogue "about nothing" is never as amusing or interesting like the simplicity of "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Having said that, the amount of famous actors in this one means you should probably give it a go!
In response to your contrived and largely misguided comments I have three points to make: Firstly, if your idea of amusing and interesting entertainment is the likes of 'Seinfeld' then I would suggest that you are of an entirely different ilk and disposition to those rare and precious individuals who would appreciate and quietly enjoy these pertinent and crucifyingly human issues and concerns. If you are of the opinion that these conversations "about nothing" don't make sense then you are, as are most of this sadly doomed ridiculous race, mistakenly convinced of the ruling notion that reality and nothingness are apart from some real and important social existence in which sense and seinfeld have meaning bla bla bla Secondly, your discomfort with the lack of a beginning, middle and end narative fitting this particular storyless episode of life into a box is only a relevent concern if you are looking for a movie that reflects nothing of real life and instead wraps you in a warm bubble of illusory meaning that distracts you from the non illusory meaninglessness of all things and the perfect unique beauty of life created therein by that very fact. We do not live in an episode of seinfeld. And thank fuck for that. Lastly, your parting comment; that a singular reason in itself to sit anchored to the spot staring at a screen for two plus hours of life that you'll never get back is because there are famous poeple on that screen, suggests to me that you should give serious thought to criticising your own storyless existence and making the necessary adjustments. Perhaps embarking on such mental and physical adventures that would lead to the fundamental and cleary lacking personal development required to grasp the subtle and desperate conditions existence itself has impressed on the characters in this "strange little film", and maybe come yourself to appreciate this attempt to portray such crucial and yet totally irrelevent controlled folly.
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unplanned??! it's called Hurlyburly!!
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