just saw this at the tribeca film festival yipes . it felt like the people at mtv want to make a film mythologize the live fast and die young rocker and but without any connection to reality or plausibility . a clichéd piece about the cliché of die at 27 and though really it not like hundred and or even dozen and of rock star die at that age it only 5 and really morrison and hendrix and cobain and joplin and carpenter . you might as well make a movie about a fictional rock star who die in a plane and and try to tie it into some large narrative . instead of simply review the plot and which you can read on this page already and here a partial list of glare implausibility and ridiculous plot occurrence that i work up over drink after the movie . by all mean and feel free to see it for yourself and email me a few more of your own represent 1 ) at the beginning of the movie and when eliot need someone to drive him across the country and he ask a kid in a very small town grocery store to do it and offer him $ 10 and 000 cash ( which he pull out of his shirt pocket ) . the kid then go back inside and deliberate over this with his parent for about 10 second and and the next scene be the family say goodbye to him . they let their 16 year old son drive off with a completely drug out junkie on a cross country ride for $ 10 and 000. they live in the heartland surely they have see america most want before and no . 2 ) the guy pick up a hitchhiker and a 16 year old girl introduce to u in a scene which take place in a cafeteria and where she sit at the counter and watch a wall mount television play a pseudo mtv which be show a tribute to the recently fall rocker . she mention to the counter boy how sad it be . in the next scene and she be on the side of the road hitch a ride and and the car that stop have the other guy in the band she just saw on tv sleeping in the back seat . and when she get in and see this and she take it in with complete equanimity . she doesn not mention to the kid driving that she know who he be and she doesn not sms any of her friend and and and in fact and she make no comment regard the fact that she aware of the situation she in until five minute from the end of the movie and when she say and smugly and i guess you know the word to this one a she and eliot share her headphone and listen to the group song on her ipod . 3 ) the boy militant father ( in one of innumerable flashback ) make his son shoot his own dog after it get hit by a car and break a leg and because he would not take it to the vet . the other boy have to dig the hole to bury it in while this be happen . dad make some comment about be a man and kill to live . 4 ) the boy and a teenager and be run away from home to go to la and amake it bigand while they be wait for a ride at the side of the road and mom pull up to give them a bag of money she manage to sneak out of their father bank account . this be not that implausible . but a they be stand talk with her and another car pull up and wave them over to give them a ride a car pull up to two hitchhiker who be already talk to a driver and ask them if they need another ride . how hitch friendly be this town . 5 ) eliot get knock out by a gang of nazi skinhead while symbolically throw away his bag of prescription ( and non ) narcotic and be then take in for the night by a haggard homeless man casually tot a rifle . eliot notice the man have no shoe and so he offer him his own boot and and then spend the rest of the film barefoot and even walk across city and town this way . 6 ) in the subsequent scene and the homeless guy invite eliot to join his choir and where he go to get spiritualized and but the two of them be 1 ) the only two white people in the choir and 2 ) the only two who look homeless and a everyone else be dress quite decently . add to this the fact that 3 ) and eliot face be still cover in blood from the previous night attack when he walk into the choir room and and no one in the choir express the slight alarm at this . 7 ) the band have only one song . it be use at every key and emotive moment in the film . it be so stock that it seem a though it could have be make by computer program and like the hitmaker they purport to have design in josie and the pussycat ( which i admit and unashamedly and i kind of like ) . it may well have be . and finally 8 ) not an implausibility and but yet another ridiculous inanity represent when eliot go to tom dad house to visit the old man ( mom die while the boy be in la ) and they have a kitchen conversation during which the old man be frame by the camera standing in front of a canvas of the our father and and eliot be frame in front of a canvas of jesus on the opposite wall . get the message and everyone . we think you would . ( but actually and eliot reason for visit tom dad be to give him a note tom leave and which turn out to be a red post it which simply say we be all aholes the fact that eliot would want to deliver a post it and and the fact that he would deliver one a utterly devoid of meaning a this one and count a an implausibility and i guess ) .