i am so critical...
I’m glad that the likes of Roger Ebert agrees with me about Bobby’s plotline in Pieces of April ; he writes: “...here Hedges, the writer-director, half-heartedly tries to do something that doesn’t work and is a little offensive.” Yep. Totally. On the other hand, I must disagree withe Nick Rogers ‘ when he terms the titular April a “Pierced pixie-girl.” Pixie -girls, in cinematic terms are not simply a little eccentric—and April is really only visibly eccentric while she’s a little boring in personality—but cheerful and energetic as well... well, maybe there’s room for something other than the manic pixie , but I do not think April is quite interesting enough to be it. Her plight may be interesting, but she really isn’t. Similarly, while I can appreciate the quiet subtlety of this film, I must disagree with Rogers when he says, “Thankfully, Hedges stages no knockdown, drag-out dinner-table histrionics.” A little more histrionics may have put more life into this film. I mean, yeah, a...