Comments about ‘Sweetie’

"Sweetie" is a movie about as seriously dysfunctional
family who seem to be getting along in their own bizarre
way at the beginning of the movie. Sister Kay meets a man
who she has been led to by a fortune teller. She latches
onto a fellow who resembles the one the seer assured him
was the man for her and seduces him in the parking lot.

Ses[pite some friction over Kay's tree phobia which leads
her to uproot a tree he had planted to celebrate their
union, they manage to maintain some kind of stable, if
distant relationship for a while.

Next, Kays father shows up to stay because his wife has
left him to cook for some cowboys out in the ranch country.

Then Sweetie show up with her narcoleptic manager/boyfriend
and procedes to make herself at home.

Sweetie seems to be somewhere between a delusional
psychotic and a 40 year-old infant. When she gets angry,
she stuffs her sisters jewelry in her mouth. She tries to
entertain the family and exhibit her talent by performing
silly tricks with chairs silly tricks that might have been
cute in a six-year-old but seem bizarre when done by an
overweight middle age woman.

For all the weirdness in the movie, it has a strange air of
reality, as if all this strange stuff were happening to
real people, as if it were something that you might read
about in the newspaper and shake your head over.

The difference is that, unlike the stories we read about
the man who stripped naked and set fire to the family home,
or the woman who left her infant in the crib to go off an a
two-week vacation with her boyfriend, or the woman who
sewed up her sleeping husband in a sheet and then poure
boiling water over him, the strange conclusion of "Sweetie"
follows a certain irrational logic and has a weird air of
inevitibility.

Steven Botts

Then Sweetie appears with her narcoleptic manager/boyfriend
and procedes to disrupt the