![]() Cracks Reiner, ”I can’t believe that little fat schmendrick is married to Rebecca Romijn. They swap memories and take digs at the absent O’Connell, whom they still treat like the tubby ne’er-do-well. The new 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray comes with some nice new Extras, including a picture-within-picture commentary from ? a reunited Reiner, Wheaton, and Feldman. ![]() ![]() Although she vaguely confessed to the rock man at the beginning, she got nothing in the end, and the nervous girl was already very dissatisfied. Jesus, does anyone?” Good luck choking back the tears, folks. The second one to jump out was Guan Nuoxue, with resentment in her eyes. At the end of the movie, Wheaton’s grown-up stand-in (Richard Dreyfuss) sums up that fateful summer, writing: ”I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. And all of his young actors are great - Wheaton as the sensitive narrator, Feldman as the slightly crazy wild card, and especially Phoenix as the tough-yet-tender doomed soul. But Rob Reiner’s film is all about the journey, not the destination. The next day, they head off for adventure, walking along the railroad tracks to find the body and become local heroes. When the pudgy scaredy-cat Vern (played by an unrecognizable preteen Jerry O’Connell) overhears some older kids talking about a dead body they saw a few towns over, he shares the secret with his three best buddies (Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and River Phoenix). Based on a Stephen King novella, the film tells the sepia-tinted story of four childhood pals destined to go their separate ways one day, but who, for now, in the summer of 1959, are bound together for what feels like an eternity of campfire tales, pinkie swears, and debates about whether Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman. Then there’s a movie like Stand by Me (1986, R, 1 hr., 28 mins.), which gets your tear ducts working honestly. Gordie says he disappeared from his parents’ sight after the accident, though we see in flashback that even before, he lived in Denny’s long shadow. But that world looks pretty bleak, thanks to the premature death of his older brother, Denny, before the story begins. And while they might succeed in making us reach for the Kleenex, we rarely feel good about it afterward. Most of Stephen Kings numerous fictional references to the town of Castle Rock place it in Maine, but the narrator (Richard Dreyfuss) clearly states at the beginning of Stand By Me - based on the King novella The Body - that this Castle Rock is located in Oregon. Gordie, the story’s narrator, sees Castle Rock as his whole world. We’ve all been held hostage by coming-of-age stories that shamelessly cudgel us into sniffling submission. What happens when the idea of manipulating the narrative leaves the world of entertainment and enters the world of politics?įrom the British Library to the middle of a Victorian graveyard, in novels and poems, documentaries, the songs of Bob Dylan and stand-up comedy, Stewart picks through the archives and encounters a host of more or less reliable voices including Mediaevalist Dr Hetta Howes, writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson, political commentator Nesrine Malik, poet Rob Auton, filmmaker Ben Rivers, Dylanologist Nish Kumar, comedian Russell Kane and one or two devious special guests.īe on your guard, expect the unexpected and suspend your disbelief as we head out in search for something to rely on.The line between sappy and sweet is a razor-thin one. ![]() Why, if we appreciate truth, objectivity and authenticity so much, do we also love the distortions of almost all narrative art?ĭoes the basic human desire to tell stories mean that none of us are ever really telling the truth? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee draws on a lifetime of professional untruths to consider the disorienting and apparently all-encompassing world of the unreliable narrator. ![]()
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