Generally, I enjoy movies of this type. It seems there is usually something revelatory, insperational, heartbreaking or satisfying. This has NONE OF THAT. I feel like I just sat next to a drunk that rambles incessantly. The stories may, MAY have a somewhat interesting premise, but they go nowhere. I don't even believe the people in the stories think that they are worth telling. After the second vignette, I quit looking for substance in the storytelling and started looking for camera angles, lighting, lens choices or anything. As I am not a film student apart from the roughly 5000 movies I've seen,I kicked rocks.
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Comedy / Drama
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Comedy / Drama
4.4Keywords: based on novel or bookanthology
Plot summary
An anthology of 7 short movies about adults thinking back to decisive moments in their pasts/childhoods: A Walk In Winter: A preteen boy returns as an adult to a wood where the remains of a body is found that may be his mom or dad. Guests: A preteen boy moves with his mom and seriously ill dad from Chicago to a small town in New Mexico, where he's bullied from day one at school. Almost Not Beautiful: Two sisters, one a drunk, meet as adults, looking back at their childhood. Miss Famous: A woman cleaning homes and living in a trailer park with her daughter, fantasizes about writing a novel and becoming famous. Lacunae: A son visits his parents after his dad's had a stroke. They bring up his ex, Laura, who has a son - his? He sees her. Smoke: 3 teenage boys, locked out of the VW in the wilderness, sit and talk into the night about sex before hitchhiking back to town. The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: A young man takes a detour on his way back home from college to a party with plenty of booze and drugs.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Natalie Portman as Laura
Tanner Buchanan as Bobby Bell
Ahna O'Reilly as Helen
James Franco as Conrad
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 880.58 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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I'm not a film student. Maybe that's why this is a waste of time.
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Different but entertaining in its own way.
I really admire this film. Well put together. It really worked for me. The interludes are fascinating. I was admittedly mildly distracted by the big names in the cast, but the quality of the acting made a huge difference - done by lesser actors it could've been rubbish. I've seen their contributions referred to as cameos, but to put it that way is to deliberately ignore the short-story structure of the film. The characters are enjoyable. Very individual and very real. The first story was perhaps the least tangible, which made it difficult for me to get past, and in that instance, I felt I needed more, but the others worked really nicely. Although the film works as a cumulative piece, especially if you can pause and have a bit of a think, for reach and accessibility I'd like to see it broken up into the seven parts and put on YouTube. I doubt whether anybody involved had realistic notions of garnering a high score on a review site or making a financial killing, but it is so good that someone is bringing what literature can do, to film. It is a film that makes me want to read the book, some other works by Robert Boswell, or watch some of James Franco's other recent attempts at literary conversion.
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What's the story?
Really impossible to tie the story from the stories told. Flat, grey, from top to toe.