I was at my local independent video store and was browsing through their computer. For some reason, I remembered a little indie film on myspace that caught my attention and typed it in. Sure enough, it was on hand. I rented it, walked home and popped it into my DVD player.
The story of this film concerns a pair of heroin addicted lovers named Spike and Sarah. Spike is a struggling musician who speaks in a slurred manner throughout the movie, and makes me think that he is handicapped rather than an addict. Sarah is a fifteen year old with a traumatic past that involves molestation by her stepfather. Naturally, Spike is pursued by the police, one of the officers being Sarah's uncle, for statutory rape, but the audience is supposed to sympathize for him, being that he is separated from his true love. Yeah, don't see how that is going to work.
Watching "Punk Love" feels like watching a bad film school student film. Nick Lyon intended to make a modern day Romeo and Juliet, but fails in every aspect. It meanders from one indie film cliché to the next (shot in blue, rape scene, lots of rain, weak symbolism etc.) that you can create a drinking game based on this movie. The first ten minutes of this movie have the couple laying in bed, doing heroin, snow falling over them and Spike mumbling something about Angels and Dragons.
The one star for this movie is for Emma Bing, who is not a bad actress, the only real likable character in the film, and dare I say, kind of cute. I hope she finds some better work.
The story of this film concerns a pair of heroin addicted lovers named Spike and Sarah. Spike is a struggling musician who speaks in a slurred manner throughout the movie, and makes me think that he is handicapped rather than an addict. Sarah is a fifteen year old with a traumatic past that involves molestation by her stepfather. Naturally, Spike is pursued by the police, one of the officers being Sarah's uncle, for statutory rape, but the audience is supposed to sympathize for him, being that he is separated from his true love. Yeah, don't see how that is going to work.
Watching "Punk Love" feels like watching a bad film school student film. Nick Lyon intended to make a modern day Romeo and Juliet, but fails in every aspect. It meanders from one indie film cliché to the next (shot in blue, rape scene, lots of rain, weak symbolism etc.) that you can create a drinking game based on this movie. The first ten minutes of this movie have the couple laying in bed, doing heroin, snow falling over them and Spike mumbling something about Angels and Dragons.
The one star for this movie is for Emma Bing, who is not a bad actress, the only real likable character in the film, and dare I say, kind of cute. I hope she finds some better work.