is I gotta go series go towards all-around
turned finish like hello welcome to it
fleck I'm Christie this is Ben perhaps you've heard of him this is also Alonso
happy for him to retire but jane mansfield car I have not seen
I don't know why I haven't seen it but I have not should I and
yeah I'm its on demand so you could
could yell out I great great actors
none of whom do anything wrong I
a but there's this there's problems so
go for it back to the director share after a long absence as a film you wrote
I am plays one of three sons of Robert Duvall
crusty old the southerner in the late sixties
whose wife had left him years earlier to go to England and live with a
Mary John Hurt and now she is dead and John Hurt and his two kids are bring the
body back to the south
for her funeral and I the two families
meet and collide in interesting ways against the backdrop of
a the Vietnam War and the civil rights era and
I visit from G-men souped-up car check it out
published each want to be buried you with people so that English bastions
kids bring them back full
damnit Neil know anyone on bareback it's just a cute name
don't get another one this English accent years
makes me hornier place on earth products you
was gonna ask you is jay Mathews car actually in this war is that like
a metaphor no it's not a matter for me two wickets in an actual car
it senate if it is a metaphor I never quite understood what was a metaphor for
or
what if the one of the storylines is that
which brother and robert duvall
go to check out the the
car wrecks on the highway 0 he takes actually his
dolls dress-up Robert stepson so with the with the oldest son's son's so to
false grandson
divall like has and I guess it happened earlier to it
so you've been doing all his life is on the short wave radio use American World
War one and now he likes to go see them
some other car wrecks okay at and that part
you know because it's Jayne Mansfield's car this the title and we know
for what happened Jayne Mansfield that seems like it should be a
I'll up some greater import but but it also didn't seem
I just in red shirt just felt simply weird and I don't let the robot thorn
intended
to be it merely where plays more like a character trait them
a character def by definition right and it seems like that needed to
again because of the title that he did to me more
and it seems like was it is that for and nobody else wants to go with them and
I didn't I didn't I did I didn't buy that part I think given the title that
was a
for that there is a lot into this to hear you got his character is a somewhat
shell-shocked world war two veteran
who um you know now like that drive cars around fast but he's still
living at home in is clearly kinda having dealing with ongoing
PTSD a Robert Patrick is the Sun News
better because he didn't see combat more to
you like work the laundry Fort Leavenworth or something and then Kevin
Bacon was a medic
I whose clearly always crave you alls you know
approval never got mad and now he's kinda long here he'd be in
his son who's also a hippie is deciding the baby was going less than five your
time after all and then
to all has a daughter who is on happily married and she hits on Ray Stevenson is
John Hurt's un wire whereas
fortin is hitting on Frances O'Connor in place honors audience very trouble is a
lot going on
flow chart sound kinda but anytime you can follow it all makes sense with the
thing is that
it's one of those movies where I think fortin head
a lotta index cards on the border more than he used to all of them and then
no one told not exactly at the end of the movie you have these speeches where
literally character sit down and explain everything
of every conflict at every character has with each other
and tries to resolve them and it just feels like no no you can't
tiny this up this quickly the mood there is some movement
in the movie but when they're isn't any movement in the movie
there isn't yeah in the movie I mean when he talks about the speech is there
are long stretches
love up talking lot of talking about something that's good talk
substance no it's not it's just Italian it's like we needed it
I don't know broken up more slightly shorter
spread out something because look of everyone in these
I mean you Billy Bob Thorton cast this movie very effectively
everybody's great emigre Stevenson who this you know
thankfully in this not banished to a role or just sorta walks around with you
know rip shirts
killing people because he's a really good actor and
and we know about Robert Patrick and we know obviously about you know and and
Kevin Bacon
Press o'connor these people and John R and and obviously do all these are
rate great people but there's something that just feels
it's not it to its so when it's not lively its sole
its soul lies there if this is is one other screenplays rethink
about like a couple more crafts yeah he really might have gotten somewhere with
this but it just
it just feels I you know economy not going to get there there's definitely
some speechifying and some underground there are some great monologues and
yeah there are that their work really well they're very effective in the
moment but
with their other times for the movie you can just literally feel like okay I
gotta wrap this up I gotta
I got a resolver the I can't leave anything dangling
and so people have conversations that no one ever have yeah
ever to do not write this to yes doesn't and like get a
you don't imagine if there's a setting for where you shouldn't have people have
conversations they should never have
it's about a sort of nineteen sixty southern family like I
they the whole point would be that they they don't have these conversations
I think that was the intent that these are the canopy because
that said when they hit the family dynamics when they
nail it its you know its rebel Tory and I like that part but I like seeing that
because there's some growth for these characters to this movie also the thing
that bugged me in touchy-feely and I feel like it's a super lazy screenwriter
thing
which is to have characters have big revelations and conversations because
they're on
drug X for %uh the somebody laces
up duvall's iced tea with LSD
I which leads to all the stuff happening and it's just it just so feels like
about such a divisive approach
but so do you know if you go to arrive yet it comes up contact you via I didn't
understand the conversation at it
yeah they drop acid in era el they think ecstasy and I thought it was happening
and
so I look there were parts that again you know I get more taken with really
good performances
so as I was thinking more about our talk and I gave it a sex I think it's
I think it's worth seeing I think they're really good again the
performances are great when it's good
when those like their moments we like it's really good other
at a well-written seen those are good people acting and a
but that it didn't that that much of a dozen altogether and at least there for
stretches II given for half I just because I mean I i
there are any other third things about the work but
it exhaust its good will by the end really
just there were on the last the refusing to the end that just made me mad that
they were they were so
badly written and so literally like let's
the slots let's all talk about our feelings in a way that these characters
have never done in the years and years they've been resentful
each other for no good reason except that movie's ending you know so
yeah sartre alright so I wake up to a 5.3 on
Jayne Mansfield's car which is available on the way I can demand
I