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Directed By
Amnon Buchbinder
Written By:
Daniel MacIvor, Amnon Buchbinder
Cast:
Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor, Kathryn MacLellan, Callum Keith Rennie, Jackie Torrens, Marguerite McNeil, Hugh Thompson, Brian Heighton, P.J. Crosby
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Whole New Thing (2005)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 5th, 2008
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Um...
It's nice to know that the Canadian film making association keeps their own employed. I laugh at that, thinking about how films are financed in Canada and also knowing that Americans love to film there because it's "cheaper" than filming in the states. Makes me giggle. I also mention it because most of the Canadian movies that I watch feature a lot of the same actors and actresses.
For example, the fantastic Callum Keith Rennie has starred with fellow Canadian Sandra Oh in WILBY WONDERFUL (in which the actress Rebecca Jenkins, also in this movie, was in) and DOUBLE HAPPINESS as well as LAST NIGHT. The Canadians, they tend to stick together apparently.
And for the most part, I end up liking the productions that come out of our neighbors up north. But I didn't like this movie. Too artsy, too pretentious. I guess it's because even though my mom was kinda a hippie when she was younger, I'm a little bit of a hippie-phobe in my older years. People who want to live off of vegan diets and electric cars and use wood burning stoves and sh*t like that... well, they annoy me. Especially since these hippies also tend to own computers, have high speed internet connections, cell phones and even just having a landline phone doesn't feel very hippie to me. Just hippie-critical.
That was the crux of what this story was based on - a homeschooled child (I REALLY HATE those people who home school, don't even get me started on that) who lives in a free environment at home with no boundaries starts to attend a public high school (for reasons that are really solidly unclear, other than the mom wanting a chance to get some free time to f*ck the neighbor down the way - the neighbor being Rennie). When the long-locked boy child is integrated amongst the mouth breathers, they taint him as being gay and the kid doesn't care. Well, he acts as if he's superior to them and quite frankly, I probably would have beaten the sh*t out of the little punk too. (And then the kid cries about it afterward... how adolescent...)
The story tries to also encompass the boy child's crush on his English teacher, a semi-open gay man who has an issue with stopping to have random sexual encounters with strangers at a rest stop. He is a sad and undefined character, odd considering that the actor playing him, Daniel MacIvor, was also the co-writer on the script.
MacIvor does the best that he can with this material, as it is his and he appears to be a fan of it. But the idea of trying to pair the storyline up against the concept of Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, is poorly, miserably conducted. This isn't a comedy. And it isn't a tragedy. It's just fluff that thinks it's more than that. Kind of like the kid with the superiority complex.
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