When that kid calls Jack's house during the pool party trying to find his mom and no one knows who she is since they only know her stage "porno" name and not her real name.
The *beep* has got to go. Go! The *beep* gots to go! -James Franco
It took me a few watches to catch on to that too..
shareI always feel a pang of sadness during the 'God Only Knows' sequence, where we see Rollergirl trying to get her GED, looking totally out of place in her hot pink shirt and staring listlessly out the window. You get the feeling that she's not ready or focused enough to make something of her life, so she'll just continue being a pornstar for as long as she can, which is a sad notion, especially since this movie really makes you care for its characters.
Scotty's arc. Poor guy. So sad when he's trying to show off his car to Dirk and tries to kiss him, he's so mad at himself afterward.
Fighting the frizzies, at 11.
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shareI was really afraid Scotty would kill himself when he was yelling at himself in the car, then right after that other people are killed but not him.
shareTo me, the saddest, or at least the most disturbing part, was when Dirk had to resort to exposing himself to a "gay" guy, for pay, and then found himself getting the crap beaten out of him. That was the nadir of his life, for sure. It may allude to John Holmes doing 'gay' porn towards the end of his career.
shareThe saddest part for me was Amber and Rollergirl getting high on coke in Amber's bedroom and Rollergirl asking Amber to be her mother. This scene showed the lack of parental care these people had in their lives.
shareAmber's breakdown in court gets me where it hurts. Julianne Moore makes you love the character and then you feel like crap when she's that hurt.
Also, Rollergirl's freakout when she stomps that guy from the limo she knew from before, you get the idea that her childhood was very, very painful, and he was a representation of it.
I only work in black ...and sometimes very, very dark grey!
Yeah when Rollergirl stomps him and screams something like "you CANNOT touch me (or get to me)"
She really felt so emotionally raped.
Also when Dirk is kicked out by his mom. There is a whole lot of sad moving moments in this movie, and it really works every time.
Difficult to say. There are so many heart wrenching scenes in this movie that it's hard to choose just one...
Well, the part where Dirk gets jumped and brutally attacked by that thug and his buddies because they thought he was gay is really upsetting.
The deaths of Little Bill and his wife and her lover by murder-suicide always gets to me and the scene is so long and drawn out...
Just about every one of Rollergirl's scenes also touched me especially the classroom testing scene where she gives up on herself and walks out.
I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.
think about it. the whole movie is sad.
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he left u NAKED in a DITCH!
When Buck got turned down for the loan because "This financial institution can not endorse pornography," and he keeps saying, "Stop saying 'Pornography'! I'm an actor...I'm an actor!"
When Dirk/Eddie's Mom is yelling at him and berating him while his Dad listens from the kitchen, seemingly helpless to step in and defend his son.
The sequence where it edits together Dirk's beating to Roller girl attacking her former class mate. Both scenes merged together convey the horrific downside of how the characters' lifestyles, how desperate and depressing it can be.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Yes and then then the robbery scene at the restaurant is right after these merged scenes. Yuck.
shareWell, that's how they legitimize what they're doing. If they were to get paid for screwing it would amount to prostitution. So, instead they get paid for 'acting' in porn - to side-step the law. In short, it's time to legalize prostitution in the U.S.!
shareThe saddest part was the whole shift from the '70's to the '80's: one minute they're at the the disco dancing and partying, having a great time, then as soon as the '80's start it's nothing but murders and bad things happening. It was such a deliberately drastic change, like signifying the end of the fun-loving '70's.
shareAgreed. The depressing montages of the characters in the 80s, does signify the end of the free wheeling party that was the 70s. AIDS was a huge wake-up call as well as the just say no to drugs movement, which essentially made doing drugs, pretty unglamorous and people were getting sick from all of the unhealthy lifestyle choices of the previous decade
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