Western Courier

Issue date: 9/16/05 Section: The Edge

The bizarre reality that the characters in the movie "Me and You and Everyone We Know" inhabit seems to be a frightening, dangerous place.

It is a reality in which Christine (Miranda July), a seemingly normal woman who transports elderly citizens around on their errands, also almost stalks a shoe store clerk named Richard (John Hawkes) who has problems of his own.

It is a reality where a man posts signs in his window on which he had written the explicit things he would like to do to a pair of teenage girls who walk past his house everyday.

It is a reality where a small child has strange explicit conversations on the Internet with a woman who turns out to be the owner of an art gallery where Christine is submitting her work.

Probably the most clever thing about the movie is the way all the characters' lives are entwined. Richard is raising his sons next to the man with the explicit signs and the boys go to school with the two aforementioned teenage girls. His youngest son is the one talking to an older woman on the Internet.

The acting was passable. The teenage son was sullen and the two teenage girls were catty (as we know teenage girls can be). Richard was unpredictable and strange, but showed a definite love for his sons. Apart from the obsession she has with Richard, Christine seems normal.

This film could be very good were it not for the few disturbing scenes and the fact that some of the characters do not seem to grow and some of the adults are very juvenile. July, who wrote, directed and starred in this movie as Christine, seems to be a very talented writer if she could get over some of the more disturbing themes of her writing.

- Margaret Eaton

Edge staff

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