Low budget Canadian cinema has my entire heart.
While this may not be a great, movie by most people’s standards, my own included to an extent, I feel if you’ve ever known anyone like Butch you will at least connect with it on some level. His complete descent at the end of the film is what turned my opinion of it around, it was really well done and almost made me tear up. I also just love how blunt and dry the characters in this are, it’s very much giving Toronto New Wave despite coming out in the early 2000s. It’s like an extra low budget Don McKellar movie.
I have seen a lot of comparisons to Gregg Araki’s films in regard to this movie but I would say it’s only really pulling the grunge from some of his earlier entries. It is beyond me why people don’t put this movie in conversation with My Own Private Idaho when the allusions to Idaho are made so obvious. There are basically lines directly from My Own Private Idaho in this movie as well as a lot of paraphrasing of lines from it. Now this movie is nowhere near as good but I do find it interesting to look at both of them side by side, especially when Mike Waters and both Cliff and Butch share some quite similar experiences and traits.
Low budget Canadian cinema has my entire heart.
While this may not be a great, movie by most people’s standards, my own included to an extent, I feel if you’ve ever known anyone like Butch you will at least connect with it on some level. His complete descent at the end of the film is what turned my opinion of it around, it was really well done and almost made me tear up. I also just love how blunt and dry the characters in this are, it’s very much giving Toronto New Wave despite coming out in the early 2000s. It’s like an extra low budget Don McKellar movie.
I have seen a lot of comparisons to Gregg Araki’s films in regard to this movie but I would say it’s only really pulling the grunge from some of his earlier entries. It is beyond me why people don’t put this movie in conversation with My Own Private Idaho when the allusions to Idaho are made so obvious. There are basically lines directly from My Own Private Idaho in this movie as well as a lot of paraphrasing of lines from it. Now this movie is nowhere near as good but I do find it interesting to look at both of them side by side, especially when Mike Waters and both Cliff and Butch share some quite similar experiences and traits.
