BIG WEDNESDAY is a brutal film, depicting the so-called coming of age of three young men who've buried themselves in drugs and surfing in the late 60's. John Milius, the overt, conservative director of the film isn't allowed for any of his silly ruminations of life to seep into the film. Rather, true life takes over, and cinematic gestures that depict the war are overcome by our perception of the war. Poetically told over the course of the Vietnam War, BIG WEDNESDAY perfectly fits a building tension into its storyline. Through the use of bigger and bigger surfing waves, until the ultimate big wednesday waves, the film takes its immoral and cruel characters and plows them through the mud. But what BIG WEDNESDAY gets right is what it's like to feel an oncoming sense of reason to madness. Instead, that reason never comes, and you see that what you've experienced is just populated with you being an asshole and fucking up a lot in anticipation for a cleansing event. Violent and gross, BIG WEDNESDAY watches the deterioration of people, the break-up of friends, mistakes, and beautifully shot waves. It's one of the best films ever made about youth and its myth.
Big Wednesday: ★★★★
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