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Actors: Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about My Own Private Idaho |
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River Phoenix is the mixed up street kid Mike Walters, looking for the answers to a family puzzle in this bleak look at street life in Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'. Keanu Reeves plays his 'friend' Scott Favor. Both give excellent performances.
--Keanuette, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of My Own Private Idaho |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Mother
- Brother
Family, caring for sick?
Yes
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
How much story is philosophy rather than plot?
- 1 (None)
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Strong "rags to riches" component?
Yes
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Battle with shrink/bum?
- wisdom from a homeless man or bum
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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