ajrg-17-381639 Review of A Slipping-Down Life

A Slipping-Down Life (1999)

A movie in the genre of southern literature

[10/10 · 23 June 2014]

I love this movie. It is of the genre of the absurd life in a small southern town and the humor is understated. For that reason it is apt to be unrecognized as such. But it is the North American version of magic realism with the unlikely being taken in stride by the characters and the likely made interesting. On the surface it is a tale of two people who are confused for very different reasons, who find that together they make one functioning whole. His reality is that of the artist who puts together words and images to make a feeling, and hers is him. She loves his music, words and the man. He needs security and someone to attend to reality. She is not beautiful but she understands him. He makes a plain girl who normally hides from the world into someone who values herself and enables them both to change. I love his songs too.