Ryan Trecartin

Last semester, I went to a screening of Ryan Trecartin's film at the UWM union theatre. It was definitely a different experience. It was far from what I expected. There was a lot of color, odd characters, and strange dialogue. There didn't seem to be much of a plotline, it was just random scenes strung together. To be honest, I kind of felt like you had to be under the influence of some kind of psychadelic drugs to watch this film. At the beginning it was sort of funny, but then it just got long and hard to watch. I don't understand what the film was about. I didn't understand if it was suppossed to be one long story or just a bunch of little things going on. Even the individual scenes themselves, I didn't get what was going on. The characters seemed to be talking really strange and not making any sense. They all seemed to talk like valley girls too. I didn't understand the significance of the body paint used either. There was just too much going on in this movie. After the film, Ryan Trecartin answered some questions about his film. He had mentioned that the film wasn't completely random, yet it is hard to get what he was saying in the film. He couldn't even answer someone's question when they asked him to explain how it wasn't random. All in all, I thought the film was interesting for being so unique, however I didn't understand it in the least and I still don't.