Home

Home starts off seeming to be a quite odd and offbeat kind of movie. However, as it goes on, we have to convince ourselves that it isn't in order to enjoy it. It tells of a family of five who live happily and normally in their home by the highway. The highway hasn't been used in ten years, and its practically part of their home (the film begins with the family playing street hockey on the road). But one day, a construction truck is seen and within a week, the highway is reopened to thousands of cars. Now, it's hard for the family to cross the street, the noise is deafening, and the younger sister is frantic about CO2 poisoning. Each member of the family reacts in a different way. The older daughter sunbathes outside and smokes like she always did, the younger daughter wears masks and hides herself away, the son still plays around but senses the madness, and the parents are going crazy. The sound is too much, it's hell to live where they do. To watch where Home goes from the beginning was an admittedly interesting experience. It's quite a tense film. However, I was very off-put by some of the sexual gratuity of the film. Just because a film is trying to convey the average household doesn't require it to shove it in our faces--it's uncomfortable to watch (just as the annoyingly pretentious Please Give was). I still think Home was worthwhile and an interesting debut, but I wish it had been smarter about how it went about.

Home: ★★★