Jimmy and Judy
"Jimmy and Judy" is both an experiment and a trainwreck, and I confess to being eager to see how it turned out in both respects. Will the experiment fail? Will the trainwreck be bloody? I think the answer is yes in both cases, which technically should make it a "bad" movie. But it's so engrossing in its attempt that I have a hard time completely dissing it. Just because the tightrope walker slipped and fell to his death doesn't mean you didn't enjoy watching the show. Randall Rubin and Jon Schroder borrowed liberally from films like "Natural Born Killers" when they co-wrote and co-directed "Jimmy and Judy." Jimmy (Edward Furlong) is a violent, deeply troubled 18-year-old who has been kicked out of college and now torments his parents when he's not locked up in the mental health facility. Judy (Rachael Bella) is the girl who finds his dangerousness appealing. Crazily in love the way emotionally disturbed teens can be, they go on a bit of a cross-country rampage. The film's experimentation is in the way it's presented. Jimmy is a video buff, and "Jimmy and Judy" is composed entirely of footage shot on a camcorder by Jimmy and Judy themselves. "The Blair Witch Project" was done the same way, you'll recall, and only a few other movies have ever tried it. It's an intriguing gimmick, this idea that a movie could be cobbled together from footage left behind by someone. Could a producer compile a movie out of your home videos? Would it make any sense? Would it even be interesting?
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