Sunday, January 14, 2007
Thumbsucker
Off the beaten path, Thumbsucker takes us through the life of one Justin Cobb (Lou Taylor Pucci), who attempts to quit his addiction to sucking his own thumb. This not so normal 17 year old senior is ashamed of his addiction to which his father, Vincent D'Onofrio, is frustrated over. His mother, Tilda Swinton, is unable to show her feelings of acceptance and motherly love. Justin works through his addiction with the help on his dentist, Keanu Reeves, and his hypnotic journey to find Justin’s power animal. When Justin begins to fall apart due to his lose of thumb sucking the school advises his parent to put him on drugs for ADHD. He experiences success on the school’s debate team sponsored by, Vince Vaughn, however this leads to a series of other drug uses and getting himself hurt by the only friend he though he had. The story is interesting, not really captivating and not an amazing let down. It is slow and fairly plain. It takes a little while to get used to it, but I really enjoyed the journey that Justin takes, feeling ashamed of his life because of the thumb sucking to an acceptance of who he is. In some ways we all have something like thumb sucking in our lives, that we are ashamed or embarrassed by. Like Justin, learning to accept it and accept others problems is a huge thing. There is nothing wrong with sucking ones thumb it is just socially unacceptable, but why?
Enjoy this Movie.
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