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i checked up on IMDB and my suspicions were correct: the actors casted weren't professional actors, they were people from the town in west virginia it was shot in. the casting agent was in a KFC drive-thru and overheard a supervisor training some new employees; she was casted. it's a pretty amazing movie, and only 73 minutes long!

― ath (ath), Saturday, 25 February 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Much better than I expected; I'm kinda worried about the whiff of 'looking down on the trailer folk' factor, which from S.S.'s commentary apparently infuriates him. I thought the nonactorish performances, particularly by the middle-aged antiheroine and the 19-year-old boy, were kind of amazing. The video interviews from which the actors were cast are somethin', you can see the qualities that appealed to him very much in evidence.

Kind of surprised that the writer is a woman, given that of the 3 leads the 2 women are shown (on different scales) to be the Morally Corrupt ones.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I love this movie. It has been haunting me for a year.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Revive because we're talking about sad melancholy GbV on the Alien Lanes poll thread. I saw this recently on Netflix and admired it. I wonder how much time Soderbergh spent scouting the area. The combination of hearing Pollard guitar with the visuals of that drive from Wheeling into eastern Ohio hit very close to home. I used to make that drive every year when going to undergrad. I don't think I'd be as big a fan of Guided by Voices as I am if i hadn't discovered them while going to college in Ohio.

― drew in baltimore, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link

the guy in the movie has the exact same accent that my dad does!

― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link

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