September 26, 2007
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Your club is for retards.According to the diabolical puppet people living inside my fragile little mind, no other film in recent memory accurately captures that universally awkward phase known as junior high better than writer/director Todd Solondz's excellent 1995 pitch-black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse. Internally powered by a knockout performance by the vastly underrated Heather Matarazzo, this unrelenting tale of mundane suburban life will either immediately turn you off or violently resurrect long-forgotten memories of adolescent torture and humiliation at the hands of your so-called peers. Solondz's uncanny ability to capture these disturbing events without succumbing to the usual Hollywood trappings is beyond impressive, giving his breakthrough film an edge few films can lay claim to. It's stark, it's ugly, and above all else, it's honest. For those of us who suffered unspeakable acts of unprovoked hostility during those oh-so impressionable pre-teen years, this is our rebel anthem, our belated rallying cry. Welcome to the Dollhouse cements tortured genius Todd Solondz as the undisputed master of socially disturbed cinema. An unmatched classic.
Recipe For Success: Heather Matarazzo + An Amazing Script + Eric Mabius On Lead Vocals
Middle School Survival: If someone is trying to copy off your test, try your best not to rat them out.
You dirty little grade grubber.
1 Spasms:
what the HELL does that movie have to do with dolls???
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