'Palm Trees and Power Lines,' starring Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker, is an emotionally devastating feature debut from Jamie Dack. Our review:
As a genre, the coming-of-age film can be a malleable one. This is true both in how each generation will encounter its own challenges and also face down difficulties that transcend time. There are works that look at the way anger can become part of our realities from a young age and others that explore how society’s repression can maintain their hold over our futures.
He isn’t always outwardly creepy and is instead more calculated as he strategically cranks up the charm to win her over. Where everyone else seems to disregard what it is that Lea cares about, it is Tom who asks her what it is that she thinks and wants for her life. Any initial hesitancy she may have had of spending time with him soon melts away as he begins dropping hints about how they should just run away together.
Dack’s direction hardly gives us a moment to breathe as conversational scenes grow more and more extended just as they ratchet up the dread. Tom will get urgent texts and phone calls that he explains away as being related to work, though we don’t get much of a great idea of what that is. When Lea asks to go back to his place, he takes her to a cheap motel where they drink alcohol out of Styrofoam cups. He says that this is just temporary and offers some nonsense excuse that rings hollow.
The thing about sociopaths is that they are good at manipulating people and Tucker executives this perfectly. Though he has previously done great acting in supporting roles in shows like Snowfall, his work here as the character descends into being more and more despicable while keeping a smile plastered on his face makes the skin crawl. However, through all of this, it is McInerny who holds it all together.
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