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GenerationofSwine

2023-10-30

⭐ 10

I grew up in a small town, and, there are a lot of people in this film where you kind of know people a bit like that. It makes it easy to connect with the characters right away, because you've already sort of met them in your day-to-day life and Buscemi did a stellar job of writing them to highlight those qualities that you are going to associate with certain people. And, honestly, that is the biggest draw to the movie. At least for me. It was sort of a "yeah, I know those guys, we already met a couple of times, and, honestly, I never really liked them." And that is fine, because they ar…

Wuchak

2026-10-29

⭐ 7

***Entertaining study of a 37yo alcoholic who keeps making foolish decisions*** This was Steve Buscemi’s first stab at writing/directing a feature film, which he described as a “speculative autobiography.” In other words, this is what would’ve possibly happened to him if he had failed to leave his hometown to pursue an acting career. When I was around 15-16yo I saw an older friend, who was 18-19yo, sitting at a bar drinking beer after beer, evidently drowning out some personal sorrow. I knew very little about life in this fudged-up world at that point, but the thought happened to flash t…