Where the Truth Lies
- Where the Truth Lies
- Some highbrow trash to get the bad Crash taste out of your mouth...
I’ve never really meant this column to be about real DVD/film reviewing. Honestly, I don’t think I’d be able to handle that responsibility. I’m just writing about my Netflix queue, trying to inform you lovely readers on whether or not to add a particular DVD to your personal queue. Sometimes I feel like I need to go deep to provide this service (see my Crash piece). Other times, I feel like I can make my point a little easier. For example, my column for Where the Truth Lies could just say this:
“Girl in Alice in Wonderland dress goes down on Alison Lohman, naked.”
or this:
“See the girl from Clueless (the TV show, not the movie) in a threesome”
Not to be presumptuous, but I feel that a good part of this site’s readership would toss this in their queue after reading that. If you care for any more discussion about the movie, make the jump.
Where the Truth Lies is about a nightclub singing/comedy duo who may or may not have killed a girl, causing their breakup. Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon are the Martin and Lewis characters, and Alison Lohman plays a reporter tracking the story 15 years after the fact. It’s odd that Lohman is the reason a lot of people are seeing the movie, but she’s also one of its biggest problems. She’s a fine actress, but she looks so fucking young its creepy…especially when she’s making out with Kevin Bacon. She looks so young that she plays herself as a pre-teen.
Perhaps this was director Atom Egoyan’s intent. I think he would have been better off casting one of his actresses from Exotica, Mia Kirshner. She’s young, but not pedophile-young. And she’s effectively played a writer for the past three seasons of The L Word.
The movie is classy yet trashy, with some excellent 70s production design and costumes. The big revelations at the end aren’t as shocking as the movie would like, but the performances are good, even Lohman. It’s not her fault, she was only miscast. Kevin Bacon is the stand out as a less annoying version of Jerry Lewis. After films like The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica, Egoyan is definitely slumming it here…but then again so am I for enjoying it.
And if you’re hesitating on dropping this in your queue, remember, it’s NC-17 for a reason…
March 7th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Straight to the queue…