Junebug, not so good...

Well, I did not really like Junebug. I thought it was slow and quite bizarre. Some scenes were a little funny but others did not seem to make a whole lot of sense. I really don’t know why the movie box says it is a comedy. Also, I thought all those random still shots in between scenes were I guess out of place. I did not like how it ended either, it just cut off. However, I think it was supposed to seem like real life. Sometimes life just feels like its going slow, not like an action packed movie we normally see on the big screen. Also, many of the characters just looked like ordinary people, not movie stars. I like my mom’s comment about the movie. She said that maybe it was like Napoleon Dynamite and if you saw it three times it might start to be good.

As for expectations about conflict resolution, we expect that by the end of a book or movie that the conflict be resolved. I know I get frustrated when movies don’t have a good ending. We want stories to have a happy ending or at least some sort of closure, a sense of completeness. We grew up learning all stories must have a beginning, middle, and end. I guess that is why people like 30 minute T.V. shows; usually by the end whatever conflict that had afflicted the characters had been solved. This is part of the reason I did not like Junebug, it did not fit into the schema I have learned about stories and conflict resolution. What were the conflicts between the brothers? Whatever they were I do not believe they were resolved. By the end of the movie the family’s conflicts were not completely solved, the two visitors just left. However, that is how life is, not all conflicts are resolved within 100 minutes.