directed by: John Badham
written by: Norman Wexler
starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow
seen: 19th July, 2017
-"You want a dream girl? Then go to sleep and have a nightmare."
This gave me a really strong feeling of watching a "Rebel Without A Cause" actualization. Since 1955, the line of what the makers can show has moved drastically, but the basic feeling that it's all staged and fake remains. For example, the pub gang fight is super funnily pretend tough and you can clearly see that nobody actually punches anybody and that they're all being very careful. Yet the boys leave the field with textbook open wounds and bright red blood all over their faces, making the film look more like a parody.
On the other hand, and I wasn't expecting this at all, I found Travolta's character really interesting, complex and yes, after everything I've said so far, believable. The screenplay was overall clumsy, but I think both Tony and I were educated during this trip down the rabbit hole.
And I was being a good girl and didn't let my opinion on all of that music to shape my opinion about this film because A) Bee Gees will always be the shy boys singing Massachusetts in my mind and B) when this particular disco music tries to express the darker sides of life, it, without any doubt on my part, fails spectacularly.
