![]() The Robert character particularly scans as a specific creation, even if his aspirations and entitlement have precedents. ![]() Ideas might be recycled in “Funny Pages,” but they’re converted into something distinct. Kline filters these stray influences into his own personal aesthetic rather than simply wearing them on his sleeve. (Or the Safdies’ films for that matter, some of which Kline has been involved with.) Its episodic nature and normalized sense of anarchy and delirium broadly recalls the works of Robert Downey Sr. ![]() The film’s free-floating aggression feels transposed from any number of early Mike Leigh or John Cassavetes films. Maher’s splenetic sputtering resembles an angrier version of Dore Mann’s character in Bronstein’s outstanding sole feature “Frownland.” There are shades of Terry Zwigoff’s “Ghost World” in its portrait of resentful youth and niche culture. Produced by the Benny and Josh Safdie and their prominent collaborator Ronald Bronstein (among others), “Funny Pages” owes debts to a handful of artistic forebears. If there’s any sensationalism or luridness in the photography, it’s entirely incidental to the primary goal of elevating regular-looking people to the big screen, a noble gesture too unrecognized these days. Cinematographers Sean Price Williams and Hunter Zimny relish shooting these characters in close-up, often magnifying their features in super 16mm, much like an underground comic artist would in print. Instead, they’re merely the people that organically make up Robert’s small world. The individuals that move through the public defender’s office or the comics store in the film are not framed as outsiders, even though they clearly are. Every character and setting might have discrete personalities, but they all reflect Kline’s perspective, which privileges oddballs and misfits and alternative culture fetishists over members of “straight” society. He subsequently moves out of his parents’ house in Princeton, New Jersey, buys a cheap car from a comic store owner, rents a sketchy basement apartment in Trenton, and acquires a data entry job in the office of the public defender who kept him out of jail.Ī comics aficionado and a cartoonist himself, Kline carefully crafts the hermetic world of “Funny Pages” so that it acutely resemble one of an imaginary graphic novel, mostly likely released by Fantagraphics in the ’90s. After getting arrested for breaking into his high school to steal back Katano’s work, and subsequently rejecting the legal counsel of a family friend in favor of a public defender’s services, Robert informs his frustrated parents (Maria Dizzia and Josh Pais) that he’s dropping out of high school. Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis) dies in a freak car accident. This is the epiphany Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), the budding cartoonist at the heart of Owen Kline’s debut feature “ Funny Pages,” reaches when his art teacher and mentor Mr. If rebellion naturally demands having enemies, then there are no better ones for suburban white kids than a comfortable middle-class existence and supportive parents. This myth neatly frames a relatively safe home life as an oppositional force. It lives “out there” where the “real people” live, with all their unsexy poverty and well-earned misery. Raw truth, the stuff of art, doesn’t exist in public school hallways and nicely decorated living rooms. Many of them believe it’s necessary to live like them in order to emulate their work. Sheltered, creative adolescents tend to romanticize the fucked-up lives of their artistic heroes. ![]() Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name.
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