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I want May for a friend!
2006-01-11
yeah, this movie is original, touching, sweet, gory, and disturbing at once. May only sees pretty parts in people and not pretty wholes...so what to do about it? create a friend out of seperate pretty parts!
Angela Bettis is fantastic in May, as well as Ana Farris. Watch this movie and be ready to see May commit the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of friendship. Too bad the soundtrack of this movie is not available, hopefully it will be some day.
May is a good friend
2006-01-02
Until you betray her that is. I always wanted to see this film, i saw previews and it looked interesting, since this was the girl who played a mental patient suffering from BDD in GIRL INTERRUPTED, and jeremy sisto is also a good actor and has been in many well known films such as clueless, and hideaway, and thirteen. This movie is extremely disturbing but does not fail as a successful horror film, despite some parts which were amusing in a sick way. It really showed angela bettis's talent because she really played the part well, her facial expressions, and smiles at inappropriate times, and her naive personality doesn't come off as innocent, but rather shows how obsessive she is and how disturbed she keeps on getting. This was also a psychological horror, because if you know psychology, you'd know that the doll was like a metaphor. It was a symbol of her "other side" waiting to break out. (cracking of the doll box glass) And at the end, when she's screaming SEE ME SEE ME, she obviously felt ignored by people, and felt like an outsider, so see me, was her way of saying she was sick of being invisible. It reminded me of jeff dahmer, in which he too played around with body parts and was interested in dark things like satanic rituals, and weird books like in this film may read about amputations and mutialation "for fun". And this movie also had a new idea, the murderer turned out to be female, which is a rare thing. Most serial killers are male, so i give props to the writers, who actually had an original idea, and made a sucessfully creepy demented horror.
Angela Bettis is Terrific
2005-12-13
"May" is one of those happy accidents where decent premise, lazy pre-production, low budget, and erratic editing inexplicably combine to make a terrific film. Inexplicable is not entirely right. Although Writer/ Director Lucky McKee did live up to his name and get very "lucky" on this one, he also had the sense to cast Angela Bettis (Janet Webber in "Girl Interrupted") as his title character and the directorial wisdom to rein in her performance to an understated level that supports the black comedy spirit of his film.
The story is seen through the point of view of Bettis's May, a character with the social skills of Travis ("you talking to me") Bickle ("Taxi Driver") and the emotional stability of "Repulsion's" Carol. Bettis is one of those amazing actresses whose face is an expressive kaleidoscope. Film is usually shot at the rate of 24 frames per second and every frame would be needed to record the series of emotions Bettis could register on her face during that second. McKee recognizes this and keeps her in check, but enough leaks out for the viewer to sense that there is a coiled spring beneath the relatively placid surface. This is a lot like the effect Elizabeth Hartman had in her films and the connection is strikingly amplified by a close physical resemblance between Bettis and Hartman. May is beautiful, fragile, and vulnerable; although wrapped as tight as Carol in "Repulsion" she elicits much more audience sympathy and protectiveness. McKee and co-star Jeremy Sisto wisely just let Bettis run with the ball and Sisto's Adam Stubbs stays a one-dimensional nice guy romantic interest. The film can be roughly divided into two halves. The first half is a black romantic comedy with genuinely touching details as May finally gets contact lenses but is unsuccessful in several planned attempts to meet Adam; then ironically they meet by complete accident. The second half is a psychological thriller with both horror elements and black comedy. The surprising unity and balance between the two halves is where McKee really got lucky as the black comedy of the second half is actually facilitated by the low budget. Had the money been available to realistically stage the violence (and had McKee given in to the temptation to do so) it would have destroyed the unifying black comedy and compromised the film. This is critical because May's second half mental breakdown is accompanied by a physical transformation that would otherwise have disconnected the two halves. Anna Faris (playing May's lesbian co-worker) also deserves praise for a great performance. Faris was unexpectedly good in "The Hot Chick" and she follows that up here with an inspired comic performance. Her delivery is far more funny than her actual lines. Ultimately Bettis gives us a character you find believable, sympathetic, and terrifying. What makes her performance absolutely unique and special is that she does this while also providing multiple moments of humorous self-parody.
Hilarious, Credible and Utterly Original
2005-10-31
It's movies like May that give me hope about the future of Horror. This movie seemed to pop out of nowhere fully formed and should be treasured by any fans of clever and original left-field film. There are echoes of other great Independent genre pictures here- a little bit of Nadja, a touch of Liquid Sky, a dose or two of flavor from Re-Animator- but May stands up totally on its own.
The story concerns a creepy young woman who was burdened with a lazy eye and a psychotic mother and grew up to be criminally insane and yet remain utterly innocent. Angela Bettis' performance is a marvel- a plethora of wildly clashing impulses are contained and rendered with a strangely sexy hyperkinetic energy. Misunderstood and abused by male and female lovers, May sets out to construct her ideal friend using the body parts from all those she has encountered. May is awfully handy at crafts and is also a veterinary nurse, so she has the necessary skills to get the job done. The first 2/3rds of the fim show May quietly unraveling, and the film's last act is a gory, unsettling and yet totally hilarious grand guignol as May sets about collecting the needed parts for her ideal friend. Lucky McKee has the ideal eye for the subject matter and the deep, moody photography paradoxically sharpens the laughs. This is the kind of work that Independent cinema should be about. It's this kind of unclassifiable, idiosyncratic genius that deserves an audience, not the paint-by-numbers dreck oozing out of Hollywood. 
disconcerting disconnection
2005-10-23
good flick. odd flick. oddly good flick.
this movie is so compelling that i have viewed it several times. Angela Bettis is both haunting and beautiful in a manner that is both very real and knowingly off center. this is not a movie for people who need a movie to spell out every detail for them - the story is moved through style. this movie looks great. May is a girl who desires to be connected to others, is open to that possibility, but has no means to that end. others use her, then shun her, then, well, i ain't gonna ruin it. perhaps think of this flick as "CARRIE" meets "HEATHERS".  Read for more: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B...
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