![]() ![]() I most closely related to the character of Pearl, Julien's pregnant sister, but recognized aspects of my own family in all of the characters. You would have to condense a couple decades worth of her psychotic episodes into a couple of hours to get anywhere near the level of constant distress that is depicted in this film. One of my older sisters was schizophrenic. The film itself, therefore, is just a little unhinged. Although there are certainly interwoven story arcs for the main characters, there is no central plot, no linearity, no unfragmented reality. In saying that the experience is concentrated, what I mean is that the film uses exaggeration rather liberally in order to condense its somewhat impossibly defined subject matter. Harmony Korine, in directing and writing this film, has done exactly what he set out to do - he has created a concentrated dose of family life with schizophrenia. Julien Donkey Boy is no more beautiful than its subject. ![]() Do not expect to be entertained, and do not expect to be overwhelmed by the aesthetic of this film.
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