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Capone on Asia Argento's HEART IS DECEITFUL!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here with one of the most interesting films
I've seen so far this year. Plus it has Asia Argento playing a junkie
hooker. There is a God.
The backstory to this Asia Argento-directed film is probably more
interesting than the finished product, and the finished product is damn
compelling. The story of young author JT Leroy is one for the ages. In 2000,
he published a semi-autobiographical novel called Sarah and literary critics
raved. A year later, his second novel, The Heart Is Deceitful Above all
Things, saw equally critical acclaim. The books were depictions of a
terrible upbringing and the all-too-evil things that people do to each
other. Celebrities not only read Leroy’s works, but they claimed friendships
with the elusive writer. He was actually spotted at various functions,
interviews, and press events. Leroy also went on to write the powerful
script for Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. Eventually, actress Argento (Land of the
Dead) acquired the rights to adapt and direct The Heart Is Deceitful.
Just last month, it was revealed by The New York Times revealed that Leroy
was a completely fictitious identity. In fact, he was a she, a woman named
Laura Albert, and that Albert’s sister-in-law was playing Leroy in public.
None of this makes this film (or the novels) any less believable. In fact, I
found it nearly impossible to take my eyes off the screen.
Perhaps more than any other film I’ve seen on the subject of the children of
prostitutes and drug addicts, The Heart Is Deceitful assembles a devastating
character study of Jeremiah (played young by Firewall’s Jimmy Bennett and
slightly older by twins Cole and Dylan Sprouse), whose whore-junkie mother
Sarah (Argento in a fiercely evil performance) has no interest in shielding
her child from the horrors of her life. She wants to immerse him in her
filth. After forcibly removing Jeremiah from a seemingly wonderful foster
home, Sarah forces hardship after hardship on her child. A succession of
boyfriends (including one played by an unrecognizable, makeup-free Marilyn
Manson) and homes leave the boy feeling lost and lonely. For a brief time,
Jeremiah is sent to live with his ultra-Christian grandparents (Peter Fonda
and Ornella Muti), who have several young men and women under their
fundamentalist care.
Although we rarely stop to think about the children of these kinds of
parents, it stands to reason that not every substance-abusing mother or
father is trying to shield their self-destructive lifestyle from their kids,
and The Heart Is Deceitful probably is not an extreme example of people like
this. But I’ve never seen anything quite this eye-opening. The movie
occasionally falls into indie-film formula with off-beat casting (including
appearances by Ben Foster, Kip Pardue, Jeremy Sisto, Michael Pitt, John
Robinson, and an uncredited Winona Ryder), but Argento’s handling of the
24-hour chaos that is Jeremiah’s life is nothing short of perfect. The
original score by Billy Corgan simply drives the hardcore point home.
Although the mystery of whether Leroy’s writings are born in truth or not
may never be known, I maintain that, if the work stands on its own and has a
profound impact on reader/viewers, what difference does it make? Argento’s
approach to drug addiction and sexual destruction is different, but no less
disturbing, than Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, and that is company
worth keeping.
Capone
Asia, let me lick the blood from your junkie holes!
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"In fact, he was a she, a woman named Laura Albert, and that Albert
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Sheesh. Do a little fucking research before you make blanket statements like "the mystery of whether Leroy
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this review as well.
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At an after-part for a reading of this book. It looked like a young boy in drag, with Liz Taylor glasses and a goofy blong wig. It just sat there, with this stupid grin on its face and said little to nothing while people told it how good the passages from the book were... I didn't understand why then, but I wanted to punch it in the face. I missed my shot, I could've outed this fraud way back then. (p.s. Asia Argento is hot)
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Get with it, in case you didn't know.
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You know what I mean? She's got that rough look to her, but she's still hot. I don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about.
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vs. Gammera the Invincible!
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Are you talking about JT Leroy, or Asia Argento?
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That's about it.
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She's not hot but is supremely fuckable.
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Fiction is fiction. If it's done well that's all that matters. Fiction based on a lie can be just as compelling as fiction based on truth. Grow up you idiots! Besides, Argento is purdy. I want her to screw me to death over the course of three nights while I'm tied to her bed.
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Just wondering... Peace.
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Good god did I try hard to like that film! I'd like to think she'll get better with time. Peace.
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I really have no idea what I'm trying to accomplish with this post. Sometimes I just get repulsively stupid and bleat my ignorance to the world in the least harmful ways possible. At least I do little damage that way. But I do think Argento is attractive when photographed correctly. In real life she might look like my rectum, I don't know.
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well, Asia Argento is hot because she is Dario Argento's daughter.
And jt Leroy is either the stupidest (and worst) thing to happen to the literary world since James Frye or he/she/they are the most hilarious sort of postmodern/dada-esque slap in the face of the literary world that has, of late, fetishized the memoir. I suspect its both. This is really a testament to the worthlessness of contemporary popular lit. Chuck P, Aug. Borroughs, and JT, its just a bit of shock + a bit/a pretense of truth + heaploads of irony.
Someone make a movie of Fallout with Asia Argento as Tandy and Uwe Boll as a radscorpion.
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Lumping Leroy with Frye is a mistake. Frye was deceiving us about himself. Leroy was lying about a fictional person. Yes, it was still deception, but Leroy never existed. Frye does. That makes a difference to me. The whole Leroy thing is creative. It's not that different from Stephen King writing under the name Richard Bachman. With that being said, I've not read either Leroy or Frye, nor do I plan to.
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i wasn't trying to suggest that leroy and frye are the same, I was just relating them sequentially. I would also push back on the villification of Frye. Only recently do people expect memoirs to be uncompromisingly true to the point where the life of the person is more important than the work itself. I think calling a work non-fiction makes a sort of pact with the reader, but i think it's sad that readers are so heavily voyeuristic that they are so offended and wrapped up in this whole frye thing. A nineteenth century reader or even an early twentieth century one wouldn't be nearly so suprised by this. It's a book, what's worrysome to me is how much we are willing to invest in a stranger's life. though, i do feel for those who identify with his story and feel like they found someone who relates to their lives. he shoulda just called it fiction and leroy should just pull the wig off, there's a difference between art and publicity seeking affect.
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I'm tired of seeing perfect looking blondes. I like the fact that Asia Argento has crooked teeth. Plus she looked fuckin' hot in that red and black miniskirt in New Rose Hotel.
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Celebrity? Tatum O'Neal? People should have known something was fishy from the start!
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Like I said on the other Heart is Deceitful.. TB, Asia is hot in that Private way. She looks like one of their "actresses". Private actresses appear "dirtier" than their US (Vivid,etc) counterparts in look and actions. An Asia Argento/Michelle Wild vid would be kinda cool. That's all I have to say.
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When I saw this movie at last year's Philadelphia Film Festival, one of the producers got up before the start of the film to read a letter from JT LeRoy. Not a note, a letter. It took something like ten minutes (or maybe it was just five, I don't know) to get through the whole thing, and it was a complete mess of sentimental garbage and bogus awe-shucks-isms. Then, they finally started up the movie, and I was surprised to discover that I actually enjoyed it. I wouldn't read anything by the author, whether it's a real person or not, but I think the movie turned out rather well.
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