This beach is where I want to spend my night after working hard all day. Filmmakers would do well to review the destination of their story concepts for getaway potential. If you set it somewhere that people would like to be, then they most likely will want to see your movie. If you get the setting just right, you will have repeat customers. My parents’ generation dreamed about nights in Casablanca, while I dreamed of living in the Dogs In Space house in Australia. Jet Trash was made ten years ago, yet it still feels very timely due to the brilliant, timeless setting. I also want to see it again, if only just to get high on that beach over and over again
Jet Trash – Vix – Sofia Boutella
“There needs to be a lot more movies like Jet Trash; movies that take you away to exotic locales spiced with underworld violence.”
I am fascinated by how effortlessly Belleville was able to make sure Jet Trash meets all the noir traditions of yesterday in the sharpest neo-directions of tomorrow. He switches the noir storyline of Americans living in Mexico because they f****d up stateside to gangland-fleeing British citizens on the beach in India. Sheehan is the perfect doomed man, as he embodies the loser always looking for the shortest distance to a good time in a masterful fashion. He is swimming in that same pain sweat that Glenn Ford made so famous in Gilda. The femme fatale requirement is strictly adhered to, but in an unexpectedly clever way that caught me off guard. Belleville also makes sure that the noir flashback method in Jet Trash will repeatedly catch you with your pants down, but since it’s the beach, just go with it.
Jet Trash is also a Christmas movie. Is so. It takes place on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and also uses Christmas tunes at key points, forcing sugar plums to dance in your head. It also has, at the center of its Tootsie Roll pop, a Christmas message for all the f****d up children in the world. If you don’t believe me, just look for the crucifixion imagery in the climax. The next time I am hiding upstairs at a Christmas party, I will be watching Jet Trash. It is also lit up like a Christmas tree, with candy colors decorating everything in sight. Cinematographer Maja Zamojda takes an already beautiful landscape and makes it dance with electricity. This is the complete color opposite of the black and white noir method, giving the neo in this neo-noir a capital N. Jet Trash is a lost modern wonder that comes out of the past to take over your viewing future.
"…a lost modern wonder that comes out of the past to take over your viewing future."
