The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Starring Ellen Page and Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
I'm on an Ellen Page kick. I never thought I'd get a crush on her. I never really used to find her particularly attractive, but she's growing on me. I just think she has a really interesting personality, and makes a lot of great film/career choices unlike many other talented actors and actresses. There are still a few of her movies I don't have any interest in watching, like Touchy Feely because it just looks boring. And I've never been able to sit through Juno. I tried twice, but just ended up turning it off after a while. Well she has captivated me again with her performance in The Tracey Fragments. The movie itself is a bit weird. It revolves around 15-year-old Tracey and explores her life as it swirls around the theme of her having lost her 9 year-old brother. She is a self-destructive, but relatively cool chick, yet is actually bullied at school and treated like a looser by, ironically, a bunch of loosers. It's kind of a sad movie that makes you feel the depression she must be going through. The cinematography is interesting. Often times there is a sort of collage of shots filling the screen which capture a scene from several angles and different points in time that weave together. In Tarantino fashion the various scenes are out of order gradually piecing together what's going on for the viewers. I like the poetic voice-over that internalises everything. I also love her retro ski-do jacket. It reminds me of one I used to have that got lost or stolen when I was living in an apartment with 10 room-mates. That also reminds me... I need to get another one.
I don't think I've watched anything else by McDonald. He seems to have done a good job with The Tracey Fragments, but nothing else on his resume looks even remotely interesting to me.
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Starring Ellen Page and Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
I'm on an Ellen Page kick. I never thought I'd get a crush on her. I never really used to find her particularly attractive, but she's growing on me. I just think she has a really interesting personality, and makes a lot of great film/career choices unlike many other talented actors and actresses. There are still a few of her movies I don't have any interest in watching, like Touchy Feely because it just looks boring. And I've never been able to sit through Juno. I tried twice, but just ended up turning it off after a while. Well she has captivated me again with her performance in The Tracey Fragments. The movie itself is a bit weird. It revolves around 15-year-old Tracey and explores her life as it swirls around the theme of her having lost her 9 year-old brother. She is a self-destructive, but relatively cool chick, yet is actually bullied at school and treated like a looser by, ironically, a bunch of loosers. It's kind of a sad movie that makes you feel the depression she must be going through. The cinematography is interesting. Often times there is a sort of collage of shots filling the screen which capture a scene from several angles and different points in time that weave together. In Tarantino fashion the various scenes are out of order gradually piecing together what's going on for the viewers. I like the poetic voice-over that internalises everything. I also love her retro ski-do jacket. It reminds me of one I used to have that got lost or stolen when I was living in an apartment with 10 room-mates. That also reminds me... I need to get another one.
I don't think I've watched anything else by McDonald. He seems to have done a good job with The Tracey Fragments, but nothing else on his resume looks even remotely interesting to me.
Last edited by Zotis; 07-25-15 at 05:34 PM.