The Last Time I Committed Suicide
by Stephen Kay
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Actor: Adrien Brody, Claire Forlani, John Doe, Keanu Reeves, Thomas JaneDirector: Stephen Kay
Brand: MCA
Writer: Stephen Kay
Producer: Donald Kushner
Producer: Edward Bates
Producer: Elizabeth Robinson
Producer: Estelle Lasher
Producer: J.P. Guerin
Writer: Neal Cassady
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Movie Review: Cassady, a life lived only in retrospect.
Summary: 4 Stars
The cinematography is intentionally choppy, skewed and angular. It slowly lets you enter the doorway to the world of Cassady.However,just when you think you may be sinking into the mire of his life, you are yanked out and thrown haphazard against a wall of antic jazz.
Back then, men had no desire to come in touch with their feminine side. They would have said "WTF are you talking about? " Men remained detached and bonded over beer and pool. Not so difference from today? There was a feeling of freedom and utter carelessnes for those few who chose not to enter the conventional roles. After all, the war was over and the future promised and held anything we yearned for. Summers were long, pleasures were simple...get high, ride the roads in a cool, hopped-up convertable, or hot-rod, if you were lucky. If everything really came up trumps, that back seat saw some major action!
There is no way to get inside a man who lived for the moment, chased etherial dreams and earthly pleasures. Some lives you can nail down, twist the ends so the pinion can not be removed, and only then you can define the meaning of it all. Others, like Cassidy's, turn into mist and fly away. So what are we trying to glean from this study of a misanthrope? Cassady took that one part of us that analyses everything, desires everything, and figures there must be a way to make it all happen, and forged something akin to a life. Most of us just drag this part of our psyche out once in while, and when we are done musing, tuck it back away in some safe, dark place to hibernate til the mood hits us one day when we are lonely, weak or depressed.
Back then rules were rules, not just guidelines. Guilt shadowed us everywhere like a demon on our heels. If you fell in love,got pregnant etc. marriage was the next step. No one questioned that. It was the dream for which men and women had fought and died. Who would question that? Cassidy did! All of us did a little, though we might not have said so around the Sunday dinner table. We needed to fit in, to assimilate into the culture of the time.
Here comes Cassady....he followed the less taken path. True, he felt all the basics... lust, passion, hunger for it all. Some people say men never get older than 12. Maybe that is true. For Cassady 12 seemed to be a great age to be....full of the mysteries of being! He grabbed onto moments like a drowning man grapples for a rope. Each moment was a patch on an unfinished quilt. The overall effect of said quilt is exquisite when you stand back and view the whole. It is only when you zoom in on each individual scrap can you see the the tears, sweat, and the blood from needle-pricked fingers. Cassady, a life lived only in retrospect.
Thomas Jane captures the vibrant, sometimes exhilerating, spirit that was Neal Cassady, in this homage to a troubled soul. Taken from letters written by Cassady, a smoky, untethered glimpse into what we may only surmise is a tortured attempt to define a man, this movie doesn't answer any questions, but then again, it never intended to! It lets us be a fly on the wall. For those of us who go back that far, the characters in this movie remind us of people we once knew, hung out with at the corner gas staion, and with whom we rode "chicken"" races along country highways etc. For the younger viewer, unless you are a 40's/50's buff, it may not hold much for you. You need to have lived in a less complicated time to understand how such unequivicable simplicity of life illicits such passion, such pain, such agony of living.
What was Cassady doing? He was chasing a dream only he hoped to understand! Wanna come along for the ride? Be aware there are bumps and detours and dead ends along the way!
P.S. fine supporting role for Keanu...clean, precision acting in his lesser role!
Summary of The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 09/13/05
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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