Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black and dance charts. Purple Rain had already sold nearly 2.5 million copies before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
...Minneapolis, where Prince Rogers Nelson was born and grew up, and where he became a regent of the local music scene even before that first album came out in 1978, the movie uses everyone's real name for characters ("We've all called Prince 'The Kid' for a long time," says Band Member Lisa Coleman) and a lot of real locations...
Nicholas Gledhill as PS gives one of the finest performances by a child actor images and not one in the mold of the Spielberg cute American kid. Reminiscent of Alexander in Bergman's Funny and Alexander. Gledhill's PS is hardly a postscript. He not only captures the hearts of all the adults but is the most complete character in the story, his enormous gray blue eyes take in everything with a quiet appraisal and his innocently infantile comments reveal wisdom beyond his years...
Screenwriter Michael Jenkins has managed to capture a great deal of a child's innocent honesty without indulging in the saccharine coyness of many American kid characters. Several of PS's lines are so simple and yet realistic that the audience gasps in recognition and appreciation. Refusing to be taken away by a strange lady. PS tells Lila. I belong to you not to her," and finally. I won't go I won't I'll kill...
...inferno of the parents. Unlike Morris, he thinks about his own viciousness and suffers for it. At the end, he even makes a couple of concessions--a possible sign of the "learning to deal with his anger and vulnerabilities" the movie's publicity promises. At the end, however, the Kid's epiphany--concerning love, tolerance, sacrifice or whatever--is not the focus of the movie. The plot's supposed resolution comes when its hero turns momentarily nice, as he allows the girls in his band some of the credit and dedicates a song to his father. The audience is rapt...