Palindromes

2004 artsy-fartsy after-school special

Rating: 8/20

Plot: Aviva is a teenage girl who is sometimes skinny, sometimes fat, sometimes white, and sometimes fat. She really wants to have a baby, and after finding out that the best way to go about that is to have sexual intercourse, she finds a penis belonging to a chubby obnoxious kid and gets busy. And boom-shakalaka, a baby is conceived! Huzzah!Her ultra-religious mother forces her to have an abortion. Later, she runs away, stays with a family of funky Christian musicians with a variety of mental deficiencies and deformities, and hooks up with an old guy. Long before then, however, interest is lost.

Well, I had considered giving this bonus points for audacity and creative effort, but upon completion, I realized that was just crap. There's something that I just can't stand about the work of Todd Solondz, and this one is much worse than the over-hyped Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness and Storytelling. Surely there are less obnoxious ways to show how bleak life sometimes is. Having various actresses playing the protagonist? Borderline fun-poking at the disabled? Shocking twists and shocking turns and shocking shock value? The dipsy soundtrack? The oh-so-clever palindromic structure? Comes across as pretentious, artsy-fartsy crap. I don't really keep track of these things, but I have to believe this movie inspired more actual groans than anything else I've seen this year.

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