JP's Random Review: May (2002)

“Proof that the best way for a unstable person to find a friend is to make one... using the best parts of those you thought were friends!” - Creepercast

Director/Writer: Lucky McKee; Stars: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, et. al.

Lucky McKee is no stranger to writing/directing films about strong psychotic women (you may recall us talking about Woman a few years ago). May seems to represent the beginning of an exploration into psychologically damaged women that get revenge in creative ways, which lead to the Masters of Horror entry Sick Girl, the full length feature The Woods, and the aforementioned Woman. And what better way to begin than with an ensemble cast like the Girl, Interrupted; the Scary Movie queen, and a guy from Six Feet Under? That's a rhetorical question, there is no better way!

May is a slow moving film that takes its time building up the main character's awkwardness in dealing with social situations. It is through the strangeness that is the other characters that she develops misunderstandings of how social relationships work and eventually takes it too far. At least to far by normal standards, by her own standards she did the only thing she could do. She sought out the most beautiful part of every person that helped stunt and bastardize her development and inevitable creates her own, perfect partner. This isn't a spoiler, its a tease. Mostly what you should be watching this movie for is to realize that we are all messed up in some way like these characters,  like Adam's love for avant garde filmmaking, Polly's fetishes (by the way I'm still trying to grasp Anna Faris as a brunette, otherwise she was exactly as bubble headed as I expected), or whatever your thing may be (like ours at the Creepercast is the horror genre). Poor May is exposed to all the best and worst of humanity and her understanding of it is twisted, ultimately causing a breakdown that really was just waiting to happen anyway. May is truly an innocents exploration into the darker side of humanity and what she gets out of it is even darker and more twisted, naturally.

Til next we bleed,

J.P.