Whip It
Directed by Drew Barrymore (2009)
by Rosalie Kicks!,
Old Sport at Moviejawn
My initial feeling after watching Whip It was: MEH. Then I re-watched Ghost World.
OK. So let’s go back in time for a moment. 2001. Video Stores. You guys remember video stores, right? That time when robots didn’t tell us what to watch, algorithms didn’t exist, and we had the freedom of choice. Well, in 2001 my best friend and I often wound up in a video store on a Friday night. We would wander the aisles looking for movies that often were not part of the mainstream…the more obscure or unusual the box cover the better. This is how we found Punch-Drunk Love, The Boy with Green Hair, and GHOST WORLD.