Party Monster
Feb. 27th, 2004 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaWhat. A. Disturbing. Film.
Oh, it's a very fun film...for the first hour or so--Seth Green plays literally the most fabulous little 'mo I've ever seen on film, and Macauley Culkin is surprisingly good as well (though I think his younger brother, the one who was in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, would've done a better job); plus, club kid culture is just so fascinatingly bizarre in general. But once the drugs get out of control and everything starts the inevitable K-and-smack-and-crack-fueled plummet...wow, does it get troubling.
Not even Chloe Sevigny prancing around in a bikini made of ER facemasks (something that just shoots like a whitehot shunt straight into the naughty part of my brain) could distract me from the sheer sordidness of the film's secondhalf. Good god, what with the outlandish costumes and the grimy photography...it was like watching a migraine smeared with rat poison. Fascinating still, but painful as all hell.
Oh, it's a very fun film...for the first hour or so--Seth Green plays literally the most fabulous little 'mo I've ever seen on film, and Macauley Culkin is surprisingly good as well (though I think his younger brother, the one who was in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, would've done a better job); plus, club kid culture is just so fascinatingly bizarre in general. But once the drugs get out of control and everything starts the inevitable K-and-smack-and-crack-fueled plummet...wow, does it get troubling.
Not even Chloe Sevigny prancing around in a bikini made of ER facemasks (something that just shoots like a whitehot shunt straight into the naughty part of my brain) could distract me from the sheer sordidness of the film's secondhalf. Good god, what with the outlandish costumes and the grimy photography...it was like watching a migraine smeared with rat poison. Fascinating still, but painful as all hell.
