You And Me And Everyone On The Radar

Miranda July has given a predictably provocative interview to Radar. Key quote:

If the sexuality of a 6-year-old could be something we can acknowledge exists, that would be a really great achievement—in a way, the best achievement of the movie. That space is so fraught—child sexuality. If it can be okay, and even funny or warm ... After I wrote that, I remember thinking, This needs a symbol like Coke has a symbol. It needs this thing so that people can consume it. I remember telling a friend that this is like the Nike swoosh, but it's back and forth, pooping back and forth forever. And she's like: I will be really impressed if that happens.

'In a way' the best acheivement of the film? Blimey. If a film made 'us' acknowledge the sexuality of a 6-year old in any real way and the film had other comparable acheivements... that would be one blindingly great film. 'We' are just not about to see 6-year olds as sexual.

Truth told, I'm pretty lukewarm on Me and You and... I'd go for her boyfriend Mike Mill's film Thumbsucker instead, without spending a heartbeat on deliberation. Go on - say it's a gender thing.

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Spiritual Sniffles

Mike Mills' latest film is Does Your Sould Have a Cold, a documentary for the IFC channel. As you might guess, it's about pharmacological treatments for depression. Knowing that, you'll probably also guess that it questions their increasingly frequent diagnosis. What is less obvious is the the film concentrates on the Japanese experience with antidepressants, and of the impact of American thinking about depression on Japanese culture.

The Film Lot have a good interview with Mills online now, as well as a link to the trailer. You can also download the trailer directly.

Prep yourself by watching Mills' feature film Thumbsucker which is also concerned with the medication of psychological conditions.