Tuesday, April 04, 2006

P'tang Yang Kipperbang

We have most of our videos in storage, and with nothing to watch on TV but too lazy to drag out videos we have stored, I found an old video laying around with no label and decided I would put it in the VCR and see what was on it. To my happy surprise it was a movie I taped off of A&E back in 1990 called Kipperbang. I really like this movie and had no idea I still had this tape lying around. It's fun seeing it again after all of these years, and fun seeing the commercials like the ad for Lee Sculptured Nails.

I think one of the things I like so much is the innocence of Alan Duckworth and his love as it compares to the mess and ugliness of the adult characters' sexual relationships. You know when you first start to feel something for a girl you never are thinking about how ugly the whole thing can become. As his moment of getting the girl gets closer all the innocence of his feelings start to fall apart, and the magnitude of what his so desired kiss will represent for him completely overwhelms him. It's a wonderful movie with very good writing.