I don’t really go for horror movies all that much. But there’s
a lot to like in “It Follows” by David R. Mitchell, now at your local Bijou.
A friend and one of my favorite movie critics, Michael Wood,
has this to say, “[It] offers an extraordinary mixture of over and
under-statement, with almost nothing in between.”
There is a scene that crystallizes its message for me: When
the girlfriend hero asks her boyfriend to play the game in which a person reveals
his secret desire: who he would like to change places with. He chooses a
coddled toddler.
These are teens with outsized fears before adulthood scrapes
the life (the sex?) out of them. Could it be even teens see so much of their
life has passed them by? If only we could do it over. But we can’t. “It Follows,”
that we can’t. Mitchell is definitely on to something here.
Next: Running for Your Life: If-the-Greats-Were-With-Us
Thursday
