Men will look upon her for a thousand years and say, "This was her weirdest hour. But in "Serial Mom" La Turner has found the part of a lifetime. And of late she's always looked like she was capable of eating her colleagues in her huge, Tallulah-like way. It's not that she got small, it's that the movies got smaller. Waters is just thinking wacky with a capital W: What's the least likely thing she'd do? Then he has her do it: The movie's like a master's thesis in non sequiturs.īest of all is Turner in a performance that may save a career. Anyway, the humor is sufficiently broad to keep most of the audience that hasn't yet left in stitches, particularly as witty Beverly comes up with a defense mode that might be called the old flying knees gambit. Also, several gross-out scenes, involving a squashed fly, disgusting table manners, and phlegm. I liked it better when she killed people. Beverly Sutphin True Story Saul Zaentz Film Center All of these scenes are played for comic effect, but they are gruesome nonetheless. Ultimately, of course, Beverly is caught, becomes Tabloidized - here the "satire" becomes a bit heavy-handed - is tried and serves as her own defense lawyer. Waters has his best fun with other icons of "taste" and loves adolescent gross-out humor: In one scene, a woman encourages her dog to lick her feet, then settles back to watch "Annie" on the VCR.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |