A Movie With a Bad Hair Day

I’m not some movie critic, so for me to notice something as small as cosmetics in a movie is pretty big. I have a friend who’s doing a film studies course and going to the movies with her is UNBEARABLE. We’ll be leaving the theatre after having watched this great, entertaining movie, and she always finds *something* to say. “Oh, the sound mixing was WAY off!”

Sure, Katrina. That’s totally what ruined the film. Not that any layman would notice, but never mind.

Now I know how how she feels. I know this was a locally-produced film, but it was a film festival so you’d think it would’ve had some quality. Instead, I just came out thinking about how bad everyone’s hair was. I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. Other people were talking about it as well, and there was this person from a hair salon in the Melbourne CBD who said that a few hairdressers WERE on set, but the actors were such a nightmare to work with that they just had to walk out.

Now…that just raises even more questions. Such as how bad does a person or small group of people have to be before the hairdressers refuse to work on their hair?? Then the stories started to circulate, and by the end of the day it seems like both the director and the actor were such nightmares that it’s a miracle that the thing was made at all. Actually, I think that’s why it’s in the film festival; kind of a ‘roll up, roll up, come look at the freak’ deal.

Wow. If only Katrina was here; she would’ve LOVED this. I’ll tell her that the costume design was all off, see what she says. I bet she’ll start reeling off all the Aveda hair salons she knows in Melbourne that could’ve done the job much better, and how there’s no excuse for poor costume design, and then the fun of it all will be ruined.

-Zana