Tarnation

I feel that in every post I say this movie is something that I have never seen before, but Tarnation was without a doubt the craziest and most messed up film I have ever seen. I’m not sure if it’s because it was very graphic or the fact that this was Jonathan reality and he had gone through all of this his entire life. I couldn’t imagine going through all the terrible things he has gone through especially his terrible childhood. Watching him as a young boy you can tell how disturbed and messed up he is and what’s amazing is he manages to rise above his upbringing and environment and becomes a successful person for himself. I honestly don’t think if I was brought up the way he was if I could have made something for myself. One part of the film that I still can’t get out of my head is where there are four different shots at once and in one corner he’s always singing the lyrics to the song that is playing and the other shots change around throughout the song. It’s almost as if it’s a really strange music video. The whole film plays into sound and at times I feel parts of film are just there to make the audience to feel uncomfortable. For example the scene when Renée is dancing and joking around with the pumpkin, I felt that scene to be very hard to watch and for some reason I felt it was taking forever for the next scene to begin. Over all, the movie was very different then what I am used to and it definitely put me outside my comfort zone, but I don’t think I will be watching it in my spare time anytime soon.