April 30, 2006
LOL the Movie Soundtrack
As I said earlier, I really loved the movie LOL, and I got one of the free copies of the soundtrack at the IFFBoston screening. I’m really digging it, though I’m also perplexed by it, does anyone else out there have a copy? It is all written and recorded by Kevin Bewersdorf, who plays a musician in the film and performs much of the music in the film. It’s all electronic and has a sort of Clockwork Orange feel in some places, and I like the sound, but the lyrics in some places are outright ridiculous, and I don’t know if they’re supposed to be that way. How do you take seriously a song that has a lyric like “The chill of winter/is nothing compared/to watching your lover/be murdered in spring”? That has to be intentionally funny, right? It’s so Spinal Tap. I like the sound of the song though. The scene where he performs it in the film reminds me of a scene in Caveh Zahedi’s A Little Stiff, where he’s trying to impress a girl and shows her one of his films–a completely depressing and dour and graphically violent short animated film–and it falls flat, she’s kind of like “Um, great…” It’s totally the wrong film to show in that moment, and shows he’s a little out of touch when it comes to connecting with people. The character in LOL is supposed to have that same character trait–he relies too much on technology and allows it to screw up his real-life connections to other people–so I’m wondering if this is all intentional. Perhaps I will contact the filmmakers and ask.
Filed by cynthia rockwell at 11:34 am under IFFBoston,Just Movies
21 Comments
man, that sounds like an album i want. i am guessing that it’s a promotional copy…hence, not in stores as-of-yet?
damn.
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
After reading your review I went to the site and dl the soundtrack.
It’s my new obsession.
Thanks!
yea david it’s available for free download at the site…and nicole what do you think of chill of winter–gotta be intentionally funny right?
yep, i’m going to have to agree. it sounds like someone’s having a coughing fit and then a toilet is flushed in the middle somewhere… then someone is sloshing around in a bathroom where a toilet has clogged and is overflowing.
I really want to see the movie. I wonder if it will ever come to nyc or to netfliix…
Ryo:
Yay, I’m gonna search for a copy now. Looks interesting. Thanks for the review š