Frank, Nigel, Tina, Chris, Fripp

From: Wilson Smith
Subj: XNet2's Chopper
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:52:24 -0500

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Lynne Austin wrote:

> Oh dear, Chopper's probably the one you really need
> subtitles on. I'm sure you'll manage them though. The
> real Chopper's a fascinating character and Eric
> Bana's portrayal is really spot-on.

It's funny, for about five minute the whole thing was
totally incomprehensible, but I guess your ear re-tunes
itself or something, cause after a bit it was fine....

And jeez, great flick, you were right! Talk about your
Anger Management cases, talk about your Borderline
Personality Disorder, this guy had/has some serious
Issues. The domestic scenes of Chopper going
"home" to his Dad's place after a ten-year
stretch, interacting with his old man the way a dog
interacts with an owner who routinely kicks it,
particularly the couple of times when they bantered
and laughed about Mum, who hadn't even answered
Chopper when he wrote to tell her he was getting out
soon, made you wonder what sort of surreal hellishness
the guy grew up with: very sick sitch there, and one
very sick dude...

Anyhoo... *** 1/2

[speaking of nothing, there's gonna be a Rutles 2??
can't buy me lunch?? http://us.imdb.com/Title?0318641]

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