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Everything in Twist is dirty and dingy and dark and cold and Toronto could as well be Akron or Pittsburgh: it's nowhere interesting, and there's no sense of locale or culture. Van Sant used some real male hustlers in Idaho and he knew the milieu and the ploys of the boys. The characters aren't realistic in that way. The pace drags, no scene stands out, there are no smiles there is no charm (how can you hustle without that?). Nick Stahl is the Arful Dodger, only he's just called Dodge. But this time he isn't given much to work with and really is nobody. Actually he's Gary Farmer, who was the wonderful character Nobody in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.
#Twist of my life game sex scene movie#
Fagin is a fat arty movie person with a gay ponytail.
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Instead of Portland we're in Toronto, which replaces London, and scoring tricks replaces picking pockets. This Oliver Twist (Twist, Joshua Close) doesn't have much fun, or much of a relationship with anybody, nor does he get to reject the quagmire he's planted in. Keanu Reeves got to mess around with River Phoenix just the way Prince Hal got to party with the low lifers of Eastcheap, and when he rejected the Falstaff surrogate the dissolute pedophile embodied by avantgarde filmmaker William Richert he was also rejecting the gay life. Nick must have got cast because he has those big dark sad hustler eyes, because here we are again in a gay updated version of a literary classic, this time a honed down Dickens transposed to a modern male hustler setting, just as Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho was - but only in part, and that was the least successful part - a gay modernization of Shakespeare's Henry IV. Here he is again, though, playing a loser role in a loser movie.
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Doesn't Nick Stahl ever get any better roles than this? (He has an important part in Terminator 3, but somehow that's not exactly acting.) He's a soulful fall guy (he's been brutally murdered on screen at least twice) but he needs to break out of the mold. Somehow one expected Jacob Tierney's Twist to be bad, but one didn't know how bad. For this version of Oliver Twist love itself is an aggression, an assault, an attack against his integrity, his freedom, his dignity. That Oliver is twisted to the extreme, so twisted that you can't reach to him any more, no matter what and no matter how much love you may put on the table, spread at his feet. And that survival might go along with easy money because it is easy to sell your flesh, but sooner or later you'll have to lose your blood and this time survival will no longer be the rule. We are talking of the descent into the first principle of some cheap philosophers and fundamentalist gurus: survival at all cost. We are not talking of love here, of freedom here. But there is no way out really and when one vanishes in thin air and ashes one will take his place immediately and follow the same tracks, pimp or hustler. And then he will turn his violence onto himself not to face the accusations he would have to be confronted to from the police and the rule is to evade the police, and for the police the rule is to ignore those who evade the police without causing too much trouble. The main character only has one choice left, and is this a choice? He has to turn his frustration onto the people who accompanied him in that descent to hell, to a type of exploitation that does not even have a name in any decent language. Is that freedom? The freedom to sell yourself in the cold night to anyone coming up who could be a gay-basher and mug you in the back alley. The freedom to shoot heroin into one's vein any time one wants till one ODs. The freedom to live in a one room warehouse with many others and no privacy, not to speak of comfort. But is it freedom? The freedom to be taken care of by a pimp who is violent and checks the proceedings and the earnings very closely. Not a real orphan because that hardly exists today but the victim of some kind of social care that would in fact produce just the same bad results as the desire to escape one's family and travel a road of forbidden freedom. The idea is that he would be a hustler, either after various successive foster homes or after a family he runs away from.
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A film that is trying to imagine what Oliver Twist would be and do in our modern world today.