This is an independent American film which stars Brad Pitt. This is before Brad Pitt's rise to fame but from here we can see that he is a pretty good actor. The movie is about a man, Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt), who finds a pair of Suede shoes, and with these shoes he believes that he is complete. In the end though he is not. It seems at the beginning of this movie that every thing is going to go his way, but in the end it does not.
The movie follows two relationships that Johnny has. The first is with a young rich girl whose mother owns a recording studio. This is a relationship made in heaven as it seems that everything Johnny ever wanted has landed in his lap. Her mother likes him and it looks as if he is going to become a star. His friend warns him though that if a woman's mother likes you then the woman does not. In the end Johnny says something and the girl throws him out.
The film maker is very clever with how he makes this movie. He does not let you know where he is going to go. He will dangle what looks like a opportunity in Johnny's face yet nothing will come of this opportunity. He runs into the most popular singer of the time, Freak Storm, and makes friends with him. He offers a record deal but nothing ever comes out of it. From what we see, Freak Storm just took his money and left Johnny with food poisoning.
Johnny protects a woman, Yvonne, from a peeping tom and strikes up a relationship with her. Yvonne is a very loving woman, someone that Johnny does not deserve. This brings back images of Clerks where the girlfriend is the one that cares for the main character yet the main character does realise it until it is too late. Johnny's low point is on his birthday as this is when his best friend walks out on him and he wonders on home only to be drawn away by a woman on the train. As I said, the film maker does an incredible job in twisting your perception of the movie around. It is difficult at times to see if it is a dream or not, but he will drop in a little hint, like a midget cowboy or a naked man, to let you know that something is wrong.
The dreams seem to play an important part in the movie because it seems to be a form of appearance and reality. Is what appears to Johnny is in fact another reality. When he is dying of food poisoning, he is rescued by both women, only one of the rescues is a dream. The dream is what Johnny wants while the reality is completely different. The end is very inconclusive and we are left to make of it what we will. As the narrator says, some say he got it back others say it was found on the side of the road outside of Delaware. The movie is left hanging and it is up to us to finish it.
The movie follows two relationships that Johnny has. The first is with a young rich girl whose mother owns a recording studio. This is a relationship made in heaven as it seems that everything Johnny ever wanted has landed in his lap. Her mother likes him and it looks as if he is going to become a star. His friend warns him though that if a woman's mother likes you then the woman does not. In the end Johnny says something and the girl throws him out.
The film maker is very clever with how he makes this movie. He does not let you know where he is going to go. He will dangle what looks like a opportunity in Johnny's face yet nothing will come of this opportunity. He runs into the most popular singer of the time, Freak Storm, and makes friends with him. He offers a record deal but nothing ever comes out of it. From what we see, Freak Storm just took his money and left Johnny with food poisoning.
Johnny protects a woman, Yvonne, from a peeping tom and strikes up a relationship with her. Yvonne is a very loving woman, someone that Johnny does not deserve. This brings back images of Clerks where the girlfriend is the one that cares for the main character yet the main character does realise it until it is too late. Johnny's low point is on his birthday as this is when his best friend walks out on him and he wonders on home only to be drawn away by a woman on the train. As I said, the film maker does an incredible job in twisting your perception of the movie around. It is difficult at times to see if it is a dream or not, but he will drop in a little hint, like a midget cowboy or a naked man, to let you know that something is wrong.
The dreams seem to play an important part in the movie because it seems to be a form of appearance and reality. Is what appears to Johnny is in fact another reality. When he is dying of food poisoning, he is rescued by both women, only one of the rescues is a dream. The dream is what Johnny wants while the reality is completely different. The end is very inconclusive and we are left to make of it what we will. As the narrator says, some say he got it back others say it was found on the side of the road outside of Delaware. The movie is left hanging and it is up to us to finish it.