Staff Select Premiere: You kissed me and it was as if you hit
Summer's just arrived, baseball season is just about to kick off and little team players of a small town in the south of Quebec aren't just hitting the ball but are experiencing puberty- and hitting it hard. Director Alexandre Dostie sets the wild sexually sexy, violent and sinister the tone for his Toronto International Film Festival winning debut short right away. "Mutants" opens with creepy punk soundtrack and scenes of young men in sexual initiation (involving the sexually attractive eating of bread) that will have your face giggling or be giggling loudly with delight. Trust me, there's absolutely nothing sexy about it.
A collection of outcasts with missing teeth, discolored mullets that have been bleached, and pimples that are bursting the pimples of baseball players that lack a voice are difficult to look at. The hairy, lawnmowers-spinning paraplegic coach couldn't give a damn the matter. His goal is to get them in an perfect state to play the game. Starting with the first pitch things begin to be messy because the ball bounces back, and the pitcher gets a black eye. Keven Guenette. A bruised face during the summer's start can be quite a snare and especially if you're trying to impress your girlfriends who make up the team. Dostie realizes that stress is the primary subject of his film, so we view the remaining portion of the film through Keven's eye(s). Keven scours the freckles of his redheaded love, holds across her legs when she is eating and picks at her skin that has died, and longs to get that first devastating kiss, as if that's the only thing worth being worrying about.
The mutated Keven has been undergoing a transformation, though it's only temporary. Keven is beginning to appear like the younger Keven They have similar hairstyles and share the same insanity and romanticism. Dotsie was hoping that viewers could draw parallels between them, thinking that "they are strange beings who are, in the eyes of their"peers," appealing and in the same breath." However, Keven has been only hit physically, but has yet to experience the complete physical and emotional trauma that has threatened his mentor with a lifetime of living. The curveball pitch at the beginning creates more motion than just a single eye and a kiss that is required to be completed, Dotsie declares, "It's a warning to young people, much like my ferocious and twisted 13 year old self. If you think that achieving the first love - capturing the first kiss - is difficult, you ain't seen this yet."
Startling, funnny shocking, funny, "Mutants" is a film that you'll remember, therefore it's fitting that it opens with an eloquent line by Boston Red Sox's Johnny Pesky: "It's such an easy game and hard to master."
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