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Terrible! , 27 April 2008

The Safety Of Objects on DVD (2001)
Starring: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Moira Kelly
Director: Rose Troche
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To take such a wonderful, lush, grotesque and dark collection of short stories, throw them in a blender, throw the result at the wall and see what sticks is criminal... There's a nice idea here somewhere but it was clearly poisoned in early production.

This is cinematic dumbing down of the worst order, made more offensive by Glenn Close turning in an amazing performance that's utterly wasted.

Character motivation is not so much surrendered as bludgeoned into mental retardation by melding characters from the original source material that are, in fact, polar opposites (the middle class, driven pot plant urinating worker ant and the down at heel sociopathic bullet catcher) - dramatically nothing makes sense. Some of the most wonderful observations from the book disappear or are glossed over: The homosexual crisis moment of the Barbie/Ken story appears in a split second and is nothing but a homage to the book. The twisted, hilarious, paedo-kidnap story is neutered with the most bizarre clause - not only is the kidnapper no longer sexually motivated, but the kidnapee is a girl who looks like a boy.

The weaving together of plot lines at the end is worthy of Dynasty-Dallas at its worst.

That the likes of talented indie champions such as Christine Vachon and Rose Troche have handled A.M Homes book in such a terribly fumbling manner is depressing.

This film has no balls and no point, and comparisons to Altman are an insult to the late director.

Don't bother.

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