Back to category: Arts Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. ertret moments on incongruous juxtaposition, such as Ken Carver´s bovine head trampolining up from behind the garden hedge as Gilbert and Betty are getting down to a bit of illicit. Häagen Dasz-inspired passion, or Endora´s new mobile Burger Barn arriving just as Ken´s coffin is being laid to rest. Here, what´s humorous is the sequence of events, not simply the events themselves. "What´s Eating Gilbert Grape" is evocative in the way it draws - and draws on - minutiae, so the overall picture is the sum of accumulated detail. Bonnie Grape´s way of clutching her tub of popcorn with simultaneous resentment and possessiveness conveys more about her self-loathing and her defiance than any trite verbal exchange about why she slumped into obesity. Like Hallsström´s earlier "My Life As A Dog", this is a film of sentiment that eschews sentimentality, despite the main storylines concerning Gilbert and his family and his relationship with the outsider Becky. There are moments ripe for cloying t... Posted by: Sheryl Hogges Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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