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6/24/2025, 8:35:53 PM
I'm not really sure how to kick this off this time, so I guess I'll just get straight to the point lol. Let's just say... Beautiful Ohio, though not that beautiful.
It's a family coming-of-age drama/comedy set in the mid-70s directed by Chad Lowe. Two central themes of the film are the mathematical genius of the older of the two brothers, Clive (David Call), and the challenges this brings to the close ones around him, as well as the complicated and turbulent relationship between the siblings as seen through the eyes of the younger brother William (Brett Davern), who has the hots for Clive's girlfriend, Sandra (Michelle Trachtenberg).
Idk how old the siblings are but I'd say 17-19. The film also features occasional ramblings about life between William and his father (the legend William Hurt himself, RIP), pseudo-intellectual 4-member family discussions involving the mother (Rita Wilson), and, above all, William's journey of self-discovery and search for validation, as he feels overlooked by his parents as a result of them gushing all over Clive's gift for maths.
William is a rather awkward romantic lacking in social skills, and even though he tries to hide it, he's obviously simping for his brother's gf, which she eventually takes a liking to.
Clive, on the other hand, has grown incredibly arrogant. Just because everyone literally worships him for being a math genius, he simply assumes he can act superior to everyone, even his own girlfried, as if they were all beneath him. For most of the film he just stares wordlessly into the distance, absorbed in his own world, his mind drifting off to God knows where. Not to mention his stupid ass cryptic made-up language only he and Elliot (Hale Appleman) - Clive's friend who often hangs out with him, a very significant character, as we find out by the end - understand. The insolent brat was insufferable. Why was Michelle given a jerk boyfriend again? Smh.
It's a family coming-of-age drama/comedy set in the mid-70s directed by Chad Lowe. Two central themes of the film are the mathematical genius of the older of the two brothers, Clive (David Call), and the challenges this brings to the close ones around him, as well as the complicated and turbulent relationship between the siblings as seen through the eyes of the younger brother William (Brett Davern), who has the hots for Clive's girlfriend, Sandra (Michelle Trachtenberg).
Idk how old the siblings are but I'd say 17-19. The film also features occasional ramblings about life between William and his father (the legend William Hurt himself, RIP), pseudo-intellectual 4-member family discussions involving the mother (Rita Wilson), and, above all, William's journey of self-discovery and search for validation, as he feels overlooked by his parents as a result of them gushing all over Clive's gift for maths.
William is a rather awkward romantic lacking in social skills, and even though he tries to hide it, he's obviously simping for his brother's gf, which she eventually takes a liking to.
Clive, on the other hand, has grown incredibly arrogant. Just because everyone literally worships him for being a math genius, he simply assumes he can act superior to everyone, even his own girlfried, as if they were all beneath him. For most of the film he just stares wordlessly into the distance, absorbed in his own world, his mind drifting off to God knows where. Not to mention his stupid ass cryptic made-up language only he and Elliot (Hale Appleman) - Clive's friend who often hangs out with him, a very significant character, as we find out by the end - understand. The insolent brat was insufferable. Why was Michelle given a jerk boyfriend again? Smh.
6/18/2025, 12:24:53 AM
So I just finally finished watching Beautiful Ohio. Weird movie desu. Not bad, but difficult to comprehend at times. It kind of reminds me of Mysterious Skin in the sense of its artistic undertone and ambiguity, except the latter pulls it off better (and the central theme is vastly different).
Michelle was great as always and as beautiful as ever. Like the poet William says in the movie; 'her beauty is like the reflection in dark water of the silver shell that we call the Moon.'
There were some WTF moments that I might later elaborate on. I didn't expect the twist at the end tho, props for the moment of surprise
Michelle was great as always and as beautiful as ever. Like the poet William says in the movie; 'her beauty is like the reflection in dark water of the silver shell that we call the Moon.'
There were some WTF moments that I might later elaborate on. I didn't expect the twist at the end tho, props for the moment of surprise
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