Movie Review
"Something Wild" attend Audrey’s high
Directed by jonathan school reunion.
Demme Audrey’s ex-husband,
Starring Melanie Griffith, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta),
Jeff Daniels
Liotta
★★★★★
and Ray
Most of our lives are
spent struggling to bal
ance the two opposing
forces of chaos and order.
Occasionally one of the
forces becomes more
powerful and life is turned
upside down. “Something
Wild” is about one of
those occasions.
Charles Driggs (Jeff
Daniels) lives a nice,
quite, conservative life.
He has been promoted to
a vice president’s position
at his corporation and
things are looking com
fortable for his future. But
Charlie is a “closet rebel. ”
shows up at the reunion
unexpectedly. Ray pre
tends to be friends with
Charlie and tricks him into
helping rob a conve
nience store. After Ray
has had his fun, he makes
Audrey stay with him and
Charlie is forced to leave.
Charlie decides he
wants Audrey back. He
needs the element of sur
prise that she provides.
Audrey feels the need for
the stability and respect
ability that Charlie pro
vides. But both have to
overcome Ray to win
what they want.
“Something Wild” is a
film that can be enjoyed
on many levels. It can be
viewed as a great meta-
He likes to add spice to his physical struggle between
life every once a while the forces of chaos and
buy skipping out on a
check or taking a newspa
per without paying for it.
One day after Charlie
skips out of a diner with
out paying for his meal,
he is confronted by a
strange woman who calls
herself Lulu (Melanie Grif
fith). Lulu says she under
stands his need for some
excitement and offers him
a ride back to work. In
stead of taking him to
work, Lulu throws his
beeper out the window
and heads out of town.
In the course of the af-
ternooon, Lulu robs a li
quor store, Charlie and
Lulu have wild sex, Char
lie calls his office and lies
about missing work dur
ing wild sex with Lulu,
they get drunk, they pick
up a few hitchhikers and
they have a good time.
Lulu takes Charlie
home to meet her mother.
Lulu, who nows claims
her name is Audrey Han-
kel, asks Charlie to pre
tend that they are married
for her mother’s sake.
Charlie agrees and even
enjoys playing along with
the farce. As husband and
wife, Charlie and Audrey
order. Ray represents the
destructive force of chaos.
Larry represents the en-
tropic force of order.
Charlie and Audrey each
embrace one of the
forces, but both realize the
need for balancing the
forces.
It’s also fun to watch
“Something Wild” for the
characters. Jeff Daniels,
star of “The Purple Rose
of Cairo,” is perfect for
the role of Charlie. He is
straight-laced but with a
little touch of rebellion.
Melanie Griffith is also
perfect as Lulu/Audrey.
As Lulu she is wild and
uncontrollable, but when
she “becomes” Audrey
she takes on qualities that
are sweet and girl-next-
doorish. Ray Liotta is per
fect in the role of Ray Sin
clair. Sinclair is obviously
both crazy and evil.
Jonathan Demme,
whose credits include
“Melvin and Howard”
and the Talking Heads’
fantastic concert film,
“Stop Making Sense,” is a
brilliant director. Demme
blends music and story to
achieve a total audio and
video experience.
“Something Wild” is a
film that can be enjoyed
because it’s a fun movie
with elements of comedy
and drama that should
please any audience.
by Karl Pallmeyer
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