INKSTAND

The first thing I noticed about this movie, other than the the oddly juxtaposed opening credits, was that it had all the melodrama of a kid’s cartoon. The kids are given a few elements of “edge”, like hanging out in a abandoned house, yet are still essentially good and righteous. The men who run the track and who don’t want the main kid to win some qualification race don’t really do anything too evil, but they act like they do all the time. I don’t think this movie did that because it was geared towards children, but because its filmakers were that bad. I think what convinced me that it isn’t geared toward kids is that there was some mild anit-authority violence and profanity. The little sister of the main kid says “shit” a lot.

One fallacy I see in this movie’s logic is how keenly the biker kids are tuned into the community. Their newspaper route has made them heroes of the town, delivering the USA Today in weird, crazy, and time-senstive ways such as in a dog’s mouth, to a fire engine, and to a woman who times him. It is rare in movies, and rarer in real life, that you see characters who know their neighbors with such Archiecomician familiarity.

There was a scene before the last final race that introduced all the racers and who their sponsors were, promoting the racers and, in doing so, thier sponsors. During this final race, other than rewinding a couple of times to see the crowd reaction shots, I mostly zoned out and thought about sex.

MY favorite crowd shot was one of a dude who worked with main kid and didn’t like him. We only know this becasue he says it a bunch of times. Here he is distracting a woman with the fact that he works with this kid in order to steal her pop corn:

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