Short cuts (1993)

The movie is a very simple humanistic view of people cohabiting a community. & it's almost like a double-feature at the drive-in because of its 180+ minute duration. I'm a sucker for interwoven tales (& I've always admited that). 9 families; & they all share the ecological complaints & geographical turbulences.

It's a very existential movie where grief and humour taste the same. & because of the range of social-substrata explored (albeit white & good-looking) it allows the audience to be judgemental & prejudiced. It allows the audience to disapprove of actions that they themselves have never encountered. I felt the hypocritic elements within me get slapped multiple times throughout the movie.

I see why the director chose to interweave the stories; because the context changes each time the scale of involvement changes. I didn't have to dissect each of the characters, because every single one of them is humane. All the human emotions possible were crammed up in this script; & thankfully potrayed by different vessels.


Fav scene: 2 couples at the bbq dinner with clown-makeup; mother's grief vented on the baker; cuckolded husband's frustration; estranged husband's wrath; the exchange of death pictures and the hypocrisy expressed.

First Viewed: Alone at Harborne in Parramatta.

Rating-3*