Mean-ish Streets

     The Holiday Cheer just keeps spreading! Like a fungus or sexy time communicable disease!

     First up, Andrea Arnold's feature debut, Red Road. Made as the first film in the Advance Party series, a planned trilogy where each film was to be made by different first time directors and producers using the same cast and characters, the film focuses on Jackie Morrison (Kate Dickie) a Glasgow CCTV operator. One day a man from Jackie's past, one she never thought she would see again, appears on her monitors and kicks off a spiral of obsession and revenge. 

     Next up, brilliant documentarian Barbara Kopple's only fictional feature- Havoc. When bored, unaffected, culturally appropriative rich kids venture into the poorer areas of East LA a run in with a drug dealer will give one a taste for danger. Allison Lang (Anne Hathaway) reaches out for some connection, when she can't find it with her father or her boyfriend or the strange dude filming her as much as possible (no, seriously, the fuck was that all about???) and thinks she may have found it with Latino dealer Hector (Freddy Rodriguez). 

     All that and Tyler finds his inner voice just in time for the Carol Competition, Kevin becomes a disembodied time travelling voice, and Dave is very disappointed with some social aspects of both films.

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Episode 132- Mean-ish Streets