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There’s this moment in Kelly Conaboy’s least favorite movie of all time, You Can Count On Me, when Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo are having an argument about Mark Ruffalo’s influence on her young son, Rory Culkin, and she says something to the effect that the little boy is going to learn that the world is fucked up and terrible and that people are awful soon enough on his own and that he doesn’t need any help from Mark Ruffalo. (Man, that is a really great movie. I do not understand why Kelly hates it so much!) I think about this kind of thing sometimes, because even if one does have what one considers to be a rational and open-eyed view towards the bitter realities of existence and the infinite combinations of pain and suffering that are available to each and every one of us if we just wait around long enough, sometimes it’s like, so what? It certainly doesn’t make you any happier to be aware of these “truths,” and it doesn’t make the pain of them any more bearable just because you know everyone suffers through them, or whatever. The whole thing is kind of a joke, and at the end of the day maybe it would be nice to just be some dumb old blob farting into his couch somewhere (haha, as if existential despair and farting into your couch are some somehow mutually exclusive. DISPROVEN!) Or someone really dumb, like a child. Those guys don’t know anything! What a bunch of fudge-smeared idiots. Anyway, this short film called School Portrait is basically about that. It has a very cheesy ending, but right up until the cheesy ending that is kind of a disappointment it is actually quite charming and cute. So, watch it:
See? It doesn’t all have to be hee haws and glum glums. Sometimes it’s just enough to see some kids smile. (No pedo.) It’s a nice day outside. Tomorrow’s Friday. We aren’t dead yet! (Via Pajiba.)
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Gabe, why are you always going on about Kelly’s least favorite movie, You Can Count On Me? I know that her favorite movie is a bit of an unusual choice, but would it really kill you to make some comparisons to Norbit every once in a while?
I think I speak for Kelly, and all the Norbit-heads of the world, that it is our own cross to bear.
Kelly, why do you hate You Can Count On Me so much?
Very good question, That One. Kelly, why don’t you answer That One’s question? It’s a good movie! What’s your problem?!
I DON’T KNOW I GUESS I JUST DON’T HAVE A HEART OR BRAIN.
It keeps me up at night how much she hates it.
I watched that movie on a flight while sitting next to a stranger, a French man who actually said “bon appetite” to me when our horrible meals were served. Anyway some of the scenes in that film were embarrassing to watch sitting next to a strange man. For that reason, I did not like that movie.
OK that was NOT You Can Count on Me, it was So the Kids are All Right! Gaaa!
http://youtu.be/Lql2g9SgJ6s
The guy was all
but that little girl was all.
photog is right. those little brats don’t know who good they have it.
“Say ‘a bunch of Americans are trying to think of a Lorry joke to make about you right now.’”
*kid stops smiling*
I was going to watch it, but then they had english accents, so they don’t have real feelings or whatever. who cares.
Hey – I’m the producer of the film. I am English and don’t have any real feelings.
My other videos are up at http://vimeo.com/album/132316.
Thanks SO much for featuring the film, Gabe, you rule!