CYRUS

Starring Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and John C Reilly

This my friends is a weird one. You meet a girl at a party and everything clicks. You hit it off and want to see her again but she has a secret. The secret keeps her guarded and elusive and it slowly drives you to follow your girl and find out for yourself what the secret is. You go to her house and the secret finally reveals itself in the form of a 22 year old man in her house. Her son.
What follows is a sort of creepy and massively misleading character study. The relationship between mother and son is oedipal at best and tends to push the envelope at times in a rather uncomfortable fashion.
Now onto the second conflict and that is the sabotaging of the relationship by the title character as he simply doesn't want another man to be with his mother. The previews for this movie lead me to believe that it was a comedy and I suppose there were indeed a few chuckles here and there but the over all tone of the movie is so very dark and disturbing that the odd smattering of jokes seemed almost inappropriate.
I love every actor involved here and the people attached to the production as well but somehow they all got together and just seemed to irritate me. Nothing went over my head and nothing missed the mark. This story is well executed and well acted but sometimes these little art house style movies just aren't for me.


Rating 1 1/2 overlong mother and son hugs out of 5