Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Igby Goes Down (2002)

This is an okay movie. 17-year-old rich kid Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin) is a rebel who hopes to break free from his pill-popping mother (Susan Sarandon) and schizophrenic father (Bill Pullman). His older brother (Ryan Phillippe) is a young Republican who seeks out wealth and prestige in the business world. Igby flees a military academy and uses the credit card he stole from his mother. He stays in an apartment that his godfather (Jeff Goldblum) is fixing up and is seduced by two older women (Claire Danes and Amanda Peet).

There is a lot of disturbing content in this film about a dysfunctional family. Medea is an enchantress from Greek mythology. Neo-fascism refers to a political movement that arose after World War II and exalts the ideas of Mussolini. It is an authoritarian ideology that opposes the parliamentary system and liberal democracy. It is also used as an epithet against people with differing political views and is generally used by those on the far left to describe anyone on the right.

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