Drew Barrymore's directorial debut film, this indie-flick about roller-derby had so many things that I love--roller skating, indie-grunge characters, ambiguous time-period (well, it was obviously modern times, but the values and priorities seemed set in the past. I like that), and unconventional narrative twists. The film sets itself up to be a traditional underdog sports romance film, but in the end turns out to be much more focused on self-discovery and navigating important (& sometimes suffocating) relationships with people (mostly parents).
I know that my personal attachment to nontraditional romantic comedies, my studies of genre techniques, and my ongoing negotiation of relational dialectics with my mother--made this film particularly interesting for *me*, but I also think there's a universal value in experimenting with the rules that typically define filmmaking, which were particularly enticing in this flick.
four
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