{"id":38389,"date":"2018-08-25T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38389"},"modified":"2018-08-25T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:02:40","slug":"little-pink-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/25\/little-pink-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Pink House<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the rain kept me indoors this afternoon, I watched Little Pink House<\/em>, the wonderful new indie movie about Susette Kelo and her fight (aided by the Institute for Justice) to keep her own Olde Wreck of a home. <\/p>\n

It’s not a documentary, but a dramatization with the great Catherine Keener as Kelo. Very good<\/em> movie. I highly recommend it. Although small bits of the dialog are too expository (perhaps necessary to set up the complex legal and political issues), the performances are awesome and the story both uncompromisingly freedomista and surprisingly un-Hollywoodized. Keener totally nails Kelo. She’s an undereducated, likable, working-class woman who simply loves her home — and is clearly a formidable opponent to injustice.<\/p>\n

She and her working-class neighbors are treated with absolute respect by the filmmakers. There are no toothless stereotypes. No racial bigots, no drunken ignorami. Just neighbors. People who didn’t have much, but who had modest homes with beautiful water views that politicians wanted to steal. The only caricature is the pseudonymous “Catherine Wells” (Jeanne Tripplehorn), outlandish head of the New London Development Corporation. I can’t imagine her real-world counterpart, Dr. Claire Gaudiani, is so very like a jumped-up Mary Kay salesthing. But I’m not complaining because the character was evil-funny.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, a generally true and well-made indie film.<\/p>\n

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This is also the second really, really, really good anti-authoritarian movie I’ve seen in the last week. The other — very different in every way — is Wes Anderson’s oddball, lovable Isle of Dogs<\/em>. The resistance in that movie is fantasy, whereas Little Pink House<\/em> is as close to dirt-level reality as it gets. But still. <\/p>\n

Check ’em out if you haven’t already. Or mini-review then in comments if you have. Wes Anderson films aren’t to everybody’s taste and tend to be love-em-or-hate-em experiences. But I can’t imagine anybody here not cheering for Susette Kelo and her partisans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the rain kept me indoors this afternoon, I watched Little Pink House, the wonderful new indie movie about Susette Kelo and her fight (aided by the Institute for Justice) to keep her own Olde Wreck of a home. It’s not a documentary, but a dramatization with the great Catherine Keener as Kelo. Very good movie. I highly recommend it. Although small bits of the dialog are too expository (perhaps necessary to set up the complex legal and political issues), the performances are awesome and the story both uncompromisingly freedomista and surprisingly un-Hollywoodized. Keener totally nails Kelo. She’s an undereducated,…<\/p>\n

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