Violet and Daisy

The main reason I decided to see this is that I want to go back and take a look at some of the movies Tatiana Maslany was in before her brilliant breakout roles in Orphan Black. That was a bit of a waste of time. She appears only at the very end of the film, a scene that lasts about one minute, with only one line of dialogue. Other than that, there are pictures of her on the wall in her father’s apartment.

Still, I’m glad I saw it. Not because I liked it—I didn’t—but as an example of some really weird stuff. I’d prefer to see a weird movie that doesn’t work than a standard ho-hum potboiler any day. However …

Violet and Daisy are two sweet little girls who happen to be ruthless assassins. (When I Googled the names, looking for the movie, the first thing that came up was Violet and Daisy Hilton, the famous conjoined twins. Deliberate?) And I mean, bloody killers. They riddle their targets with bullets, and in one particularly disgusting scene, jump up and down on four corpses to pump blood out of their mouths. You gotta wonder, What was he thinking? By he, I mean the writer/director, Geoffrey Fletcher, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Precious, and then wrote this. I could get behind a scene like that if it was funny, but it’s not, it’s just weird and distasteful.

Anyway, they are hired to kill James Gandolfini, who doesn’t seem to have any objection to it. They are so sloppy, in fact, that they are both asleep when he arrives home at his apartment. He covers them with a blanket. There is more silly stuff like that. All in all, it’s one of those movies that I sat through so you won’t have to.