Big Bad Love

 

Actually, my favorite movie

is Big Bad Love, with Arliss Howard.

He plays the writer Leon Barlow.  Based on

a good old boy from a book of short stories by Larry Brown.

He’s a drunk and a sometime housepainter and he has a friend

who is a fellow Vietnam veteran.  Now it’s Desert Storm, or Bosnia.

Now it’s Iraq or Afghanistan.  Now it’s then.  They get in

a wreck and his friend is brain-damaged.  The train pulls away

a boxcar in his yard he was painting a mural on.  A woman

on a black horse throws his manuscript pages to the winds.

Another woman slings a black high-heel pump at the 55-gal oil drum

he keeps his rejection slips in, and says, “Are you ready?”

Ready for what?  Nobody is ever ready.

If you think you’re ready, you’re fucked.

His father in a freezer.  A cameo by Larry Brown.

“Take the highway, son.”

Never buy a Volkswagen made by Mexicans.

It’s okay to drive around the house but you don’t want to

take it on the road.  It’s like having a little dick.

 


 

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