I tried watching the Tideland, but I turned it off after about 10 minutes because the girl's parents were disgusting. Does it get any better as the movie goes on?
Nope....it gets worse like most Pahak nom's the question I often ask myself is this a watchable film.
Tideland (2006)
So this film is the story of a little girl who is the daughter of a pair of junkies. She's been groomed to facilitate both of their needs, well after the mother OD's the father moves her to an isolated farm house where his mother used to live and surprise surprise he then OD's. Now we're told the rest of the story through the imagination of this little girls who's basically dissociated from reality.
Terry Gilliam attempts to make an Alice in Wonderland style horror film, but grounding it in the modern US west. So I suppose he tried to give it a Faulkner undertone. The films climax is a message to the audience a bad joke that is a poor reward for the 2 investment in the film.
If I'm judging this as an acid horror film that attempts to unsettle it achieved it's mission. Like most of Pahak's choices we've got that underaged sexuality which is always a big reason to put these films on the bottom. The great news is the underaged sexuality issues (which is the point Alice in Wonderland) is also undercut by sexual abuse of a mentally retarded young man in Dickens.
Most critics hated the film at the time but Rian Johnson and David Cronenberg both loved it which explains quite abit about what I just watched. I didn't hate the madness or the grossness or the big final joke which could be used for meta commentary of the film.