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By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

An exploration into sibling relationships set in a world of life on the wrong side of the tracks comes to us compliments of real-life brothers, Alan and Gabriel Polsky, who make\u00a0 their feature co-directorial debut with THE MOTEL LIFE.\u00a0\u00a0 Although losing some depth and gravitas due to a scantily developed backstory, the emotional strength of the film is buoyed by a superlative performance by Emile Hirsch buttressed with perhaps the most potent work we\u2019ve ever seen from Stephen Dorff.<\/p>\n

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Frank and his older brother Jerry Lee have been on their own for awhile.\u00a0 Losing their mother some years back, their inheritance consisted of $500.00, their father\u2019s gold Winchester rifle and a death-bed directive from their mother that they always stay together.\u00a0 Taking their mother\u2019s words to heart, the pair are virtually inseparable, no matter what the difficulties or what trouble befalls them; and no matter how many times Jerry Lee tries to venture forth alone because of some mess he has created that Frank needs to clean up.\u00a0 One of those \u201cmesses\u201d involved an attempt at hopping a freight train; an event that cost Jerry Lee a leg.\u00a0 And now, Jerry Lee has created a new situation that must be handled.<\/p>\n

Living a life on the rails and moving from one motel room to another, their escape from the harsh hand they have been dealt is stories.\u00a0 Frank has always been able to spin a mighty good yarn while Jerry Lee has immense artistic talent, adorning their motel room walls with his drawings that span their collective lifetime.\u00a0 But tall tales and pretty pictures may not get them through this latest trouble.<\/p>\n

Drunk and driving in a late night snowstorm with zero visibility, Jerry Lee hits and kills a young boy on his bicycle.\u00a0 Fleeing the scene in typical Jerry Lee fashion, in a panic, Jerry Lee drives the car to a remote location, sets it on fire and then shoots himself in the leg.\u00a0 Always appearing a little bit slow on the mental uptake, Jerry Lee turns to Frank for help.\u00a0 Frank, unfortunately, has his own alcohol-fueled demons to deal with.\u00a0\u00a0 As Jerry Lee lands in the hospital to recover from his self-inflicted gunshot wound, Frank is out hustling up some cash to make a hasty getaway and sidestep the law, who are actively searching for the hit and run driver and getting closer by the minute to discovering Jerry Lee as the culprit.<\/p>\n

As the brothers come face-to-face with their own mortality, their relationship grows ever deeper, their individuals past mistakes and secrets hidden deep below the surface bubble forth and each tries one last time to become the kind of man – and brother – each dreamt of being.<\/p>\n

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With THE MOTEL LIFE, the shining star is two pronged; the first prong being Emile Hirsch.\u00a0 Packing an emotional punch, Hirsch delivers a thoughtful powerful performance that tacitly speaks volumes with elegant emotional nuance through observation.\u00a0 His character development is defining and distinctive, peppered with precious moments of joy where his eyes light up when Frank is telling his fabulous stories.\u00a0 It is impossible to take your eyes from the screen.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t matter if we\u2019re seeing a close-up or a two-shot pairing Hirsch with Dorff or co-star Dakota Fanning,\u00a0 Hirsch is mesmerizing.\u00a0 He captivates with his silence and with the light, or sadness, in his eyes.\u00a0 His exchanges with Kris Kristofferson\u2019s Earl Hunley are priceless, filled with loving paternal notes.<\/p>\n

And what about Stephen Dorff\u2019s turn as Jerry Lee?\u00a0 This is something we have never seen previously from Dorff.\u00a0 He really pushes the envelope to remove his usual hard, cocky edge and delivers a memorable performance as an emotionally stunted man brimming with childlike naivete.\u00a0 At first you think Jerry Lee is playing “dumb” to avoid dealing with life, but Dorff slowly draws you in and you realize this is how Jerry Lee deals with the world – he never learned how to be an adult.\u00a0 He is, in essence, trapped in the hopeful fantasy of childhood where you can be anything you want to be and the world can be whatever you want it to be.\u00a0 Great dichotomous\u00a0 character construct positing the physical and to a degree, mental, disability against the dreams of a child reflected in his drawings.\u00a0 Telling is Jerry Lee’s insistence at buying magazines for the family of the boy he killed given that for the period during which this is set, and for a child of that generation, magazine sales were how you raised money for school, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts.\u00a0 A loving touch in the storyline.\u00a0\u00a0 And Dorff runs with it.\u00a0 We feel Jerry Lee’s pain, but once we get into the third act, Dorff starts losing my empathy and understanding as the aura he’s emitting as Jerry Lee becomes more “pathetic” and helpless. At no time did I ever see Jerry Lee as helpless up until that point when he pisses and moans that he can’t even hop to the bathroom.\u00a0 And that’s where Dorff loses footing (pun intended) in the performance.<\/p>\n

Very poignant and beautiful performance by Kris Kristofferson as Frank\u2019s \u201cmentor\u201d, used car dealer Earl. On the other hand, Dakota Fanning is somewhat wasted as Frank\u2019s past love, Annie James.<\/p>\n

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Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, THE MOTEL LIFE is all about \u201cstorytelling\u201d – the second prong of the shining star – “storytelling” on multiple levels with fantasy and real life colliding sometimes in a moment of quicksilver and other times in sadness – but even that sadness leads to inspiration and hope.\u00a0\u00a0 With a contained physical construct of life in a motel room, the novel and script tap into the only outlet for a motel lifer – one\u2019s imagination. And that’s exactly what Frank and Jerry Lee do through Frank’s stories and Jerry Lee’s drawings.\u00a0 The Polskys excel with their direction at honing in on and capturing that element.\u00a0 Without the stories and drawings, the film would have fallen flat.\u00a0\u00a0 That sense of imaginary exploration is what breathes life into THE MOTEL LIFE, imagination that is then fantastically rendered through animated vignettes scattered throughout the film as segue and scene changes.\u00a0 Adding a top note to the imaginary stories and drawings is that they do not mimic the lives of Frank and Jerry Lee, but expand them and go beyond, creating worlds and events the boys only dream of experiencing.<\/p>\n

The animated sequences are stunning.\u00a0 Nothing fancy, but charcoal\/pastel\/grease pencil looks and a few pen & ink animations with the \u201cFlannagan Brothers\u201d as RAF pilots.\u00a0 The animation – even with the soft porn, naked breast drawings – is actually quite innocent reflecting the childish naivete of Jerry Lee.<\/p>\n

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Production design is beyond appropriate.\u00a0 We feel the claustrophobia of the motel rooms and the reality in which the boys live.\u00a0 Cinematographer Roman Vasyanov, of whom I am a huge admirer, excels with creating a visual tonal bandwidth that both mirrors the claustrophobia of the boys’ world, while turning it on its ear with some expansive wide shots of the crystalline glistening white cleansing snow.\u00a0 (Love\u00a0 the whole snow metaphor going on anyway).\u00a0 Vasyanov did something similar with \u201cThe East\u201d in its lighting and lensing to great effect and I see the same elements here – worlds colliding, hopes, dreams.\u00a0 Beautifully shot is a cabin scene with Dakota Fanning and Hirsch – purity of white snow outside, golden warm fire and glow inside; similarly, another motel room and the bakery where Fanning\u2019s character of Annie works – white, clean crisp, pure; like life reborn and the slate wiped clean.\u00a0 Almost celebratory is the shadowed imagery of the motel rooms contrasted with zooms into Jerry Lee’s drawings taped on the walls.\u00a0 As the camera zooms in on select drawings, the walls of the room fall away, removing the claustrophobia and in most cases, serves as a segue into an animated sequence.\u00a0 The camera sweeps us out of the grit of the Flannagan boys’ life and into the “what if” world.\u00a0 One thing I am surprised was not incorporated into the production design – a cowboys and Indians blanket or quilt from the boys youth.\u00a0 With the “old west” dreams and motifs of being “renegades”, on the run, living hand to mouth, etc., I really expected to see them holding on to a blanket like that from their days as children.<\/p>\n

There are a few continuity issues that serve as distractions starting with the disappearance of Jerry Lee\u2019s prosthetic leg.\u00a0 More disturbing, however, are scenes of Dorff as bedridden Jerry Lee post-surgery in a pristine hospital bed where the bottom of one foot is always on camera.\u00a0 It\u2019s black with dirt.\u00a0 Common sense tells us the foot would have been cleaned by the hospital when he was shot and brought in, and he wasn’t hopping on the floor, so why are we seeing a filthy dirty foot sole?<\/p>\n

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Not to be missed is Mike Smith’s animated desert lizard which is obviously inserted as an homage to Werner Herzog whose film \u201cBad Lieutenant\u201d was produced by the Polskys and who, in return, is now championing the Polskys\u2019 work.\u00a0 As any Herzog fan knows, he is famous for sticking non-sequitur lizards, crocodiles, chickens, etc. in his films so this loving touch is a real gem to see.<\/p>\n

Storytelling at its finest, THE MOTEL LIFE is a deep reflection on the human condition and brotherly love.<\/p>\n

Directed by Alan Polsky and Gabriel Polsky<\/p>\n

Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster based on the novel by Willy Vlautin<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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