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Monday, October 14, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
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The first shot of Prince Avalanche is apocalyptic; a lush green forest transformed into inferno. We see the fire consuming everything in its path, homes: lives and memories reduced to ashes. Cut to a year later. It’s 1988 and two workmen trundle their way along an apparently infinite road. They are Alvin (Paul Rudd), a self-important, finicky stuff-shirt and Lance (Emile Hirsch), a a horny, consciously shallow layabout. Dressed in Mario Brothers style dungarees they're a classically constructed odd couple.
It’s not the most obviously dramatic situation, yet there's a slightly Samuel Becketty feel to the setting. The men's slow and steady progress down the highway is mirrored in the film's deliberate pace, it's going to get where it's going in it's own damn time. The relaxed pace forces the audience to try and work out what makes these men tick and how they bounce off each other. With little else going on but dialogue and scenery, the film lives or dies on our emotional attachment to the characters so it's fortunate that both men are deftly and consistently sketched out.
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