Word: westons
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...Kurt Weston's dark and depressing images - many of which are stylized self-portraits - are also a star of the show. A former fashion photographer in Chicago, Weston lost his vision due to AIDS in 1996, and focuses his lens, and sometimes simply his scanner, on images of decay and disability. "I not only want to look at these things, photograph these things, but put an exclamation point on them," he explains. "I'm saying, 'You need to look at this disabled body, this aging body. And maybe you need to reconsider your ideas about what is normal or abnormal...
...combine two traits," he says. "They're all intensely visual. They just can't see - and that expresses itself in a whole variety of ways. The other one is they're furiously independent and determined. This is a group that does not say 'quit' in any way." Or as Weston says, "I guess it's God?s little joke, having someone who is legally blind do so well in the visual arts...
...life, before moving to hand-held shots that follow him as he runs after terrified skateboarders in the parking lot. “Observe and Report” attempts to squeeze in a few moments of genuine warmth into the mayhem, but Ronnie’s alcoholic mother (Celia Weston) sucks them dry like she does her whiskey. Before Ronnie goes out on a date, she tells him about her first date with his father, reminiscing, “He was so handsome... I knew right then and there that I would fuck him that night...
...them quirky life: Michael Pena as a lisping dude who seems to be Ronnie's firmest supporter on the security detail; John and Matt Yuan as twin mall-cop layabouts; Ray Liotta as a police detective who sneers away Ronnie's ambition to join the force; and especially Celia Weston as Ronnie's mother, who loves her son and her booze with equal, pathetic intensity. Weston and Rogen's scenes together have the sad, sloppy sweetness of two losers who care for each other because they're stuck together. After all, for most of the movie, each of them...
...like a police procedural of the mind; if there are a million ways for CSI to solve murders, surely there are dozens of ways for Paul to follow dark tunnels in search of life's imponderables. It's a crazy world out there. It could keep Paul Weston busy for a long, long time...