With Brad Pitt as the white, trailer-trash serial killer Early King, Kailfornia would play well as a B-movie to one of Pitt’s later films, say Se7en or Fight Club. Whilst excessively violent in places, Kalifornia introduces several characteristics of the (then young) actor’s trade that were explored further in the later roles. Take, for example, the seventh deadly sin: wrath. Pitt looks good wielding a gun, finding innovative angles at which to point and prod victims in Kalifornia. Now move to Se7en’s finale, with Pitt’s steady lift of a gun to John Doe’s head under intense emotional pressure. The different methods of gun-posturing reveal how far the actor had come before his career became subservient to his Hollywood celebrity status, and shows an actor clearly in possession of some talent.
Ostensibly a vehicle for Pitt, Kalifornia remains a reference point for fans of the actor’s work up to and including Fight Club, and a shock-in-waiting for fans who prefer his most recent, pretty-boy work, from The Mexican onwards.
by Rich Watts | Source: MGM Home Entertainment DVD
10 Jun 2005 11:28 AM | Comments (1)
I like this film solely for the reference it makes to Vernon, Florida:
Early: Where you from?
Walter: Vernon, Florida.
Early: Don’t know it. Any hunting?
Walter: Turkeys sometimes.
rumsey
10 June 2005
11:01 AM
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