the audience applauded

Best movie ever!

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This film is two movies, its scenes including Catherine Keener, and its scenes excluding her. The link is the iguana, now a symbol of Eisenstein's dialectical idealism montage theory of cinematic art, indicating Keener's pseudo-intellectual influence on this cinematic production. Soviet Cinematographer Sergei Eisenstein responded to the Soviets' perverting Hegel's "phenomenology of mind" into what they called dialectical materialism by calling his Zen koan approach to cinema dialectical idealism. And, since then, emulating his use of discordant montage has been a right of passage for cinematographers and directors. But Keener's dialectic detracts from the iguana's. HITRT

This is an independent American film which stars Brad Pitt. This is before Brad Pitt's rise to fame but from here we can see that he is a pretty good actor. The movie is about a man, Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt), who finds a pair of Suede shoes, and with these shoes he believes that he is complete. In the end though he is not. It seems at the beginning of this movie that every thing is going to go his way, but in the end it does not.The movie follows two relationships that Johnny has. The first is with a young rich girl whose mother owns a recording studio. This is a relationship made in heaven as it seems that everything Johnny ever wanted has landed in his lap. Her mother likes him and it looks as if he is going to become a star. His friend warns him though that if a woman's mother likes you then the woman does not. In the end Johnny says something and the girl throws him out.The film maker is very clever with how he makes this movie. He does not let you know where he is going to go. He will dangle what looks like a opportunity in Johnny's face yet nothing will come of this opportunity. He runs into the most popular singer of the time, Freak Storm, and makes friends with him. He offers a record deal but nothing ever comes out of it. From what we see, Freak Storm just took his money and left Johnny with food poisoning.Johnny protects a woman, Yvonne, from a peeping tom and strikes up a relationship with her. Yvonne is a very loving woman, someone that Johnny does not deserve. This brings back images of Clerks where the girlfriend is the one that cares for the main character yet the main character does realise it until it is too late. Johnny's low point is on his birthday as this is when his best friend walks out on him and he wonders on home only to be drawn away by a woman on the train. As I said, the film maker does an incredible job in twisting your perception of the movie around. It is difficult at times to see if it is a dream or not, but he will drop in a little hint, like a midget cowboy or a naked man, to let you know that something is wrong.The dreams seem to play an important part in the movie because it seems to be a form of appearance and reality. Is what appears to Johnny is in fact another reality. When he is dying of food poisoning, he is rescued by both women, only one of the rescues is a dream. The dream is what Johnny wants while the reality is completely different. The end is very inconclusive and we are left to make of it what we will. As the narrator says, some say he got it back others say it was found on the side of the road outside of Delaware. The movie is left hanging and it is up to us to finish it.

Combining hard-edge cynicism with compassion, Johnny Suede looks like a cartoon, but it's serious enough to raise intriguing questions, specifically men's deep fear of women. In a role that makes one think of James Dean, Elvis Presley, and Ricky Nelson, the director crafts a lyrical portrait of a wannabe, a good-natured poseur mythically named Johnny. Mixing sight gags with deadpan humor, Johnny Suede works its magic as a fairy tale about a man who has to lose one shoe in order to find his true identity. Pitt is sensational and delivers one of his greatest performances. He could have made his character cartoony, but his subtleness is perfect. Not to mention his decent singing skills. Catherine Keener is great too, and Sam Jackson makes an appearance as well. Definitely worth a viewing if you are in the mood for a character driven picture, or are a Pitt fan.

This is one of the very early films in which Catherine Keener appears, and if you are among her growing population of admirers, this film is amust see. Keener has never been better, except maybe in "Living in Oblivion". Aside from that, this film is about as forgettable as an offbeat film can be. Annoying at times, there are some bright spots in this film that make it worthwhile as a whole.