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Bug: An Odd Powerful Movie

Watched a movie called Bug tonight.  Starred Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick, Jr.  At first Bug seems like a simple story about a lonely girl who is desperate for companionship and fears her ex-husband who has just been released from prison.  Then it becomes a bit of a sad love story about two broken people in search of something to fill a void.  It soon turns into a psychological horror movie.  In the end we see, the disintegration of two people's grip on reality and the affects of paranoia. 

The movie doesn't truly fit into one genre, so it's hard to categorize.. On the outside it's a simple story about how people's need to believe in something can manifest itself into a psychosis, but when you really watch carefully, it's a sad tale about how being alone can affect one's life.  We all want to feel something.  Some of us resort to drugs or inflicting pain on ourselves just to know we're alive.  Some of us find love or a hobby.  Some of us don't find anything and the results are tragic.  Bug is the story of two people who find each other and their need for something ends badly. 

The movie is slow and being it is adapted from a play, it basically takes place in a small motel room.  The characters are simple, yet complex.  They are strong, yet broken.  The scene where they make love is passionate and filmed in a way that you feel they are basically sweating out their demons.  They are cleansing themselves of all their misery, if even for one night.  It's the beginning of the end though and will result in their demise. 

The acting is such that you feel there is some pain.  Whether it be the constrictions of the set, the tone of the movie or maybe something else.  You feel there is a pain.  It becomes maniacal at times and ends with complete craziness, but it makes sense to the actors.  When the movie ends, you feel a sadness and a relief.  Like someone finally passing after suffering a long bought with cancer.  It takes a while for you to feel OK about yourself after seeing this.  I would guess, those in a happy relationship would not take away from this film what those who are single and have been single for a while would.  The message is that loneliness and heartbreak is difficult and the slightest shining light appears as bright as the sun when we hurt.  When we want.  Bug might not be a great film on the outside, but it gets under your skin and makes you want to rip it out.

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