DOWNSTREAM & CIRCUIT GEMS
Well, lookee — another fantastic movie that I’m absolutely sure nobody in my family will like, so now I have to tell you about it.
This is Cop Car, and what’s great about it is the script — not the story but how it’s put together, and not in what’s written, but more often what’s not.
In fact, let’s just dispense with the story altogether by calling it a series of unfortunate events, involving:
- 2 American kids exploring the outskirts of their faintly atmospheric desert town;
- a cop car;
- its largely absent owner; and
- two crooks in differing degrees of animation.
Get your write on
This is a movie for writers. What’s so fantastic about it is with what inexorable force, direction and appalling certainty of outcome it proceeds, purely by the actions of its characters, and to some degree their dialogue.
And what I find most refreshing about that is that there’s not a lick of exposition, the main reason I find Hollywood movies so tiresome. I’m sorry. It has to be said. Hollywood movies are fucking dumb.
In fact, there’s no dumbing down whatsoever, because everything about the proceedings is so irredeemably dumb…
