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Nice little Ingmar Bergman homage
City couple heads to their Catskill cottage. They pick up a quiet, strange hitchhiker whom they can't seem to shake.
I liked this, the bad ending notwithstanding. Id love to be able to say why the ending is stupid, but you should just watch it. When it ran on Sundance it was billed, 'hitchhiker terrorizes couple'. That's very inaccurate. He doesn't terrorize them at all, he's a little strange, but a decent person. What he does do, intentionally I'm sure, is expose their relationship for the charade it really is. What's interesting is that any relationship, given the right set of circumstances, can just as easily have the scaffolding ripped away, whether by an interloper as is done here, or through trauma. That is why so many fail when tragedy is injected. You jump into a relationship and quickly get carried down stream so to speak, and in doing so permanently blind yourself to many of the flaws inherent. We have to, or absolutely nobody would ever get married. The hitchhikers unexpected presence in their lives awakens sunken desires in the wife, not just the usual sexual rubbish, and immediately the marriage is steered towards the shoals. I found the whole experience very refreshing, save the ending. Dumb, someone should have talked them out of it. Now if you want to make a case that this guy doesnt actually exist, so that the ending has to be as it was... I don't know... One last thing: Why cant Sundance and IFC stick to showing films like these? Sure would be nice. You know what I'm talking about.
I liked this, the bad ending notwithstanding. Id love to be able to say why the ending is stupid, but you should just watch it. When it ran on Sundance it was billed, 'hitchhiker terrorizes couple'. That's very inaccurate. He doesn't terrorize them at all, he's a little strange, but a decent person. What he does do, intentionally I'm sure, is expose their relationship for the charade it really is. What's interesting is that any relationship, given the right set of circumstances, can just as easily have the scaffolding ripped away, whether by an interloper as is done here, or through trauma. That is why so many fail when tragedy is injected. You jump into a relationship and quickly get carried down stream so to speak, and in doing so permanently blind yourself to many of the flaws inherent. We have to, or absolutely nobody would ever get married. The hitchhikers unexpected presence in their lives awakens sunken desires in the wife, not just the usual sexual rubbish, and immediately the marriage is steered towards the shoals. I found the whole experience very refreshing, save the ending. Dumb, someone should have talked them out of it. Now if you want to make a case that this guy doesnt actually exist, so that the ending has to be as it was... I don't know... One last thing: Why cant Sundance and IFC stick to showing films like these? Sure would be nice. You know what I'm talking about.
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- glgioia
- Feb 3, 2004
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