Afternoon,
Guys…
So, I
haven’t been this psyched about a movie in A LONG TIME! The film’s Kills on Wheels (Tiszta
szívvel), an action dramedy Hungarian film from ’16! The thing is it stars a born and made crips! AN ACTION FILM! The last time, I saw a movie that had a real
crip was ‘13’s Labor Day with Micah
Fowler, who has CP and has made a name for himself in ABC’s Speechless
as J.J. DiMeo, but he only had, like, one line.
Let me set
the stage. I was on Putlocker looking
for something to watch after we watched Book
Club that Joey was interested to see, which I’ll tell you guys about later. Anyway, I was scrolling and scrolling until
my eye was caught by an image. I read
the synopsis and and checked out the trailer…OH SHIT, THESE DUDES ARE FOR
REAL! I tried to pull it up on Putlocker,
but it was lagging too bad, so I tried Amazon…DAMN, not Prime, so I tried
Netflix…GOT IT! After we watched First Class so Joey could get her James
McAvoy fix, I put on the film.
Like I said,
Kills on Wheels is a foreign film and
there’s no English dub, so expect to read subtitles.
I read most
of them, but I let the acting tell me the movie, which tells the story of two
crips, Zolika played by Zoltán Fenyvesi, who has severe scoliosis to the point
of needing a life-saving surgery, and Barba Papa played by Ádám Fekete, who has
CP, living an existential life in a “home.”
They want more and get in WAY MORE than they bargained for when they
meet Rupaszov played by Szabolcs Thuroczy, who in the story was a firefighter
before he was caught in a fire to become a crip. Now, he’s an ex-con returning to the life of
a hitman to do one more job before he’s set for life and he can get out.
Like most films
of its ilk, Kills on Wheels’ color
palette’s a mix of greys and blues like every scene’s overcast. You have your heavies, which happen to be
able-bodies, that’re trying to kill, this case the lesser of the two evils. That’s about where the similarities between Kills and your standard fare end.
Being that
the main characters’re crips, we get to see real-world crip life as far as
transferring, a foley getting emptied in a gutter, which ain’t exactly normal,
but I’ve let my catheter drain into a gutter when I didn’t have a urinal in my
younger days. Some of the convos were
convos I’ve had with crip friends about being a crip and life, so that was cool. I said it’s an action movie, but they are
crips, so the action’s a little slower, but still badass, IMO.
A few
sequences to watch out for: We get introduced to Rupaszov when he’s doing
pull-ups …CHAIR AND ALL, Rupaszov using his Roho cushion as a weapon concealer
and a kind of a silencer, and there’s a sequence where three’re fishing that
had me rolling out loud to where I had to work to not wake Joey up.
If other
countries are starting to crank out inclusive fare like this America needs to
get their shit together, or they’re to miss the parade. Kills was
the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy
Awards. Even though it was not nominated,
it was brought out of the shadows.
Check it out
and be good to each other.
-J-
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