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Hick is probably what would happen if you took the worst country song imaginable and turned it into a movie
. You get white-trash character tooling around back roads in the middle of nowhere, snorting drugs, hustling pool, beating up the winner, robbing a convenience store, raping an underage girl and winding up with a couple of bodies thanks to a gun that isnt loaded. None of this is connected to any sort of reality. These characters are snatched from novels and screenplays James M. Cain comes to mind and turned into caricatures. Consequently, its hard to develop any emotional connection to the strange odyssey of a 13-year-old runaway, carrying not enough clothes for a sleepover.Lulis journey goes in circles so that no matter how often she ditches the Cowboy, she keeps running into him. Meanwhile, the Grifter turns up frequently too. A lot happens yet there really isnt much plot. What plot there is hangs entirely on the budding sexuality of this extremely underage girl and everyones reaction to her allure.
To her credit, Moretz, who is only 14, gives an entirely credible performance as a tenacious, overripe young girl trying out her seductive powers on the worst sort of adults. Perhaps in the 2007 novel written by Andrea Portes, Lulis narration of her own tale gives color and life to events and characters that ring hollow on screen. The script Portes wrote with the director retains a bit of this narration but apparently not enough.Performances are mostly over the top, which includes Lewis as Lulis permanently pickled mom. Baldwins character, who turns up for a couple of final scenes, is never introduced or explained although the Greek playwrights did have a label for it deus ex machina, the god that descends to the stage to sort out a story after the writer writes himself into an inextricable hole.Tech credits are modest although the movie features a surprisingly good soundtrack of old songs ranging from country to Dylan.
On the road, the runaway's vocabulary runs the gamut from "ergo" to "skank," but that's hardly the height of her precocity. Hooking up with big-sisterly Glenda (Blake Lively), Luli enjoys her first snort of cocaine, inspiring a succession of slurred images taken from the pair's speeding car -- and a brief respite from the pic's gratingly twangy dialogue.Working with d.p. Frank Godwin, director Derick Martini ("Lymelife") knows how to fill the widescreen frame, although the movie remains largely empty nonetheless. "Hick" borrows more from the films of Martin Scorsese than one could begin to calculate, but it regularly mistakes caricature for characterization, and its combination of vintage pop music and extreme violence feels merely gratuitous. A particularly nasty scene set to Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams" seems to victimize young Luli as much as any of the movie's perverted males do.Amazingly, Moretz manages to acquit herself with grace and humor, even in feebly imagined moments of Luli twirling her pistol and spouting old-movie dialogue in front of a mirror. Supporting actors, from Lewis and Lively to Baldwin, appear as little more than garishly costumed props, while tech credits are mature enough to make the screenplay seem even more childish by comparison.
Watch free movies onlineCamera (color, widescreen), Frank Godwin; editor, Mark Yoshikawa; music, Larry Campbell; music supervisors, P.J. Bloom, Heather Guibert; production designer, Roshelle Berliner; art director, Brian Stultz; set decorator, Andy Krish; costume designer, Erika Munro; sound (Dolby Digital), Carl Rudisill; supervising sound editor, Terry Rodman; re-recording mixers, Jason Brennan, Rodman; visual effects supervisors, Daniel P. Rosen, Cameron Neilson; visual effects, Evil Eye; stunt coordinators, Dino Muccio, John Gilbert, Haley Nott, Bob Fisher; assistant director, Michael Jefferson; casting, Eyde Belasco.Watching Martini flail around trying to figure out what kind of story would be entertaining if it werent such a chore. The script tries to craft Lily as some sort of little lost girl who only wants to be told shes pretty. It would be tragic if it werent cloying and honest if it werent so incoherently gross. The film gropes at whether or not it should make Lily a sexual object and as a result comes off as creepy, like a pathetic old man who wonders if the thirteen-year-old on the bus is giving off a vibe because her mid-riff is exposed. If Martini wants to make Lily a Lolita-figure, he should sack up and do it (he would fail but at least there would be some conviction to the storytelling). If he wants to protect this poor, misguided child, then put us on her side. But do not flirt with the idea that Heymaybe this child is asking for it.
This kind of idiotic characterization leads to preposterous interactions. The film doesnt know whether to make Eddie a badboy Lily finds attractive or a complete raving psycho would cause any rational person run in the opposite direction. I can buy the notion that a self-conscious teenager would be attracted to an attractive, older man who exudes a dangerous personality. What I cannot buy is when Lily watches Eddie beat a guy to death with a kitchen sink and then they go get ice cream. Other intense moments: an argument over the term Oakie and using a 7-Up when making a 7-and-7. Those scenes are like a game in an acting class where the participants are challenged to make something completely stupid feel dramatic. For all of the films faults, the cast gives it their all and I tip my hat to them for trying.
I wish Martini at least had the courtesy to be laughably bad if he was going to make his movie such a sickening chore. Instead he fills it with the wretched indie coming-of-age score the feature the familiar and tired lone acoustic guitar. That kind of score needed to die ten years ago but I guess hiring one marginally-talented guitarist is cost effective. What doesnt come cheap are the licensing rights for the Bob Dylan songs the film uses and wastes.Maybe Martini made a much smarter film than Im willing to give him credit for. Maybe because he thinks hicks are lazy and stupid, he made a lazy and stupid movie. If that was his intention, then he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. But the truth is that Hick is a trashy soap opera that could care less about characters, pacing, narrative, or even basic human interaction. By the end of Hick, I had counted 33 walkouts.Im surprised there was anyone left in the theater at all.
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