Indie Memphis

Indie Memphis is never boring. This year proved it. So many different independent films, some good, some bad, but all definately unique.

I saw something called 45365. It was incredibly interesting, and although not gripping, it was not boring. Imagine you sat on a bench all day, listening in on conversations and looking closely at faces. It was basically that, but a constant stream of it. It was all about small town life, which automatically bores the crap out of me, but this movie didn't. It made me feel like I was actually there, sitting with these old biddies, watching this jock get pranked at his locker, listening to this cop tell an old man to call his cable company. Again, sounds boring, really wasn't.

I'm not sure what other meaning it could've had, made to look for the subtleties in happiness, stability, in hopefullness. It wasn't viewing the society of a small town from a political standpoint, but by, I suppose, a human standpoint, which is what I enjoyed the most.

I really desperately wanted to see. On The Edge Of Happiness directed by Mark Jones. He's the same director of Eli Parker is Getting Married, a movie I caught one late night when I was incredibly bored on WKNO(which is what I watch when I have a tv, when i get bored). The movie was hilarious, about a man who get's pranked on his bachelor night. He is cuffed to his bestfriend, naked in a canoe, in the middle of the lake in the middle of middle Tennessee. At that moment, his bestfriend comes out to him as being gay. Yeah, so it was hilarious, nonetheless, watching everything get more and more tangled as it became unraveled. I wanted to see his latest film because I knew he'd done good work. Because I was pelted with work, however, I could not attend the showing. I suppose I'll have to either purchase it or check it out of Black Lodge which tends to have these films.

In the end, I wish I had seen more movies but it's tough when you normall get free tickets, and now you have to pay. I wish Malco would give me free tickets to Indie Fest.