The Chumscrubber

Well, before i start i feel it is necessary to commendate Al Gore and Live Earth for their valiant effort (God, i feel like a 60 year old man saying that word) to raise awareness and funds that go towards global warming. God i wanna be there to enjoy great music...anyways, we all need a little awareness.

Well, anyways, im not writing about Live Earth (though i still think it's a bitching idea). Nor about dreams, lately i cant remember what i dream, and im getting at least 5 to 6 hours of sleep (which is the average of hours a normal person gets, so we all suffer from not getting the appropriate time of rest...8 hours) and well, im trying to be less forgetful and disoriented...so so far so good.

I saw a movie in HBO called the chumscrubber and i really liked it...enough to write about it, i still question HBO's rating system, it only gave it 2 stars out of 4, but it clearly is a great movie, and they gave the amanda bynes move almost 3 stars. This movie is like a dark comedy about the lives of the average dysfunctional family in a rich neighborhood. The main character Dean (played by billy elliott's jamie bell) is a depressed teenager that finds his best friend commited suicide, and now a bunch of drug dealers are chasing him because his friend owed the dealer's a lot of merchandise. To make things worse Dean's father is a self abosorbed psychologist that instead of listening to his son he analyses him so he can write new books and instead of giving his son love he gives him a new batch of pills to make Dean numb.
The plot thickens when the drug dealers desperate for the merchandise decide to kidnap Dean's little brother (played by either kieran or rory culkin), but, they kidnap the wrong kid...and still hold him for ransom. This part of the movie is kind of sad, because Dean goes to the kid's parents but the mother and her new husband are too busy with their carrer and selfish bullshit to even notice that their own son has not been in the house for at least 2 days. So the movie revolves around the kids left to their own devices and parents not giving a shit what their kids do.
The movie is clearly an exageration, but i often ask myself how much of an exageration can it be? sure, the situation might seem outlandish, but not the concept it is grounded on. The chumscrubber is an insightful look at people crying for help, whether is teens commiting suicide, or suffering from depression, or even the parents of these characters that are unhappy in their lives, in their marriages and live a farse and transform these frustration into indifference for their own children...ok now im rambling...but it still is an awesome movie, im glad i stayed awake til 5 A.M. and watched it