Word: kelleyism
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...father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that's as disturbing as it is oddly poetic. But it is not representative of the film as a whole, which mixes elements of film noir and moralist western, with a hint...
...Locusts, the debut feature of writer-director John Patrick Kelley, is perhaps the first film ever to use the castration of a steer as a major plot point...
...this point that the movie loses all its tension and coherence The Locusts is beautifully filmed, especially in the scenes where the film goes for a western feel, and Kelley does deliver some striking images. But as in so many debut features, the script attempts to take on too much, sacrificing narrative focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies...
...anything. In one of the quieter scenes in the film, with Judd and Davies sitting in swings at a drive-in movie theater, their faces silhouetted against the screen, she is charming, seductive and intelligent. It is more focused scenes such as this one that show Kelley's potential as a filmmaker...
Over the years, Morton has traced each family's genetic heritage through 14 generations. He has determined a carrier frequency for the disorder among the Amish of about 1 in 10 people. Working with Dr. Richard Kelley, a pediatrician, Morton diagnosed glutaric aciduria in 16 other Amish children. The doctors' studies predicted that 50 more children born in the next generation would inherit the two copies of the defective gene needed to cause the disorder. According to the statistics, without treatment nearly all would be disabled, and 12 of them would die before age 5. "Glutaric aciduria is a treatable...