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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Dominic Sena's Kalifornia is a brilliantly vicious dark fable, a moody cautionary tale regarding the dangers of trust, the true nature of the sociopath and the ironic way in which demons sneak up on us while we are to busy looking for them with our backs turned. It's also damn fine thriller filmmaking and fits nicely into a subgenre which I happen to be an avid fan of: the American road movie. The highways, byways and back roads of desolate rural USA have a bitter menace that clouds the air like the desert dust kicked up by many a vehicle on their way through. There's endless possibility out there, for great and terrible evil, in a place where help is always a county away and opportunity looms on the horizon like the bloated California sun. From The Hitcher, to U Turn, to Thelma & Louise, to Duel and everything in between, it's a setting that hums with cinematic potential. David Duchovney and Michelle Forbes play a yuppie couple who unwittingly wander into the path of extreme danger. Duchovney is a writer who is working on a book about American serial killers. Their journey takes them to many bloodstained locales where incidents took place. Eventually they decide to carpool with rugged redneck Earley Grayce (Brad Pitt), and his bimbo girlfriend Adele Corners (Juliette Lewis) whose IQ appears to be lower than the cut of her blouse. The two couples couldn't be more different, yet get on well enough. Slowly it becomes clear that there's something very off about Earley though, noticed keenly by Forbes's intuition. Duchovney is enamored by the tumbleweed hick, and thinks he's made a friend. He's half right, and not even in the way he thinks. The film takes its time letting Earley's true nature emerge, Pitt slowly detaches and unravels until the tarp is fully torn off and we see the sociopathic monster within. All set in abandoned clusters of former Americana and given slick, almost action movie direction from Sena, it's not one to miss for any fan of a crackling psychological thriller.

"Kalifornia" is the story of two couples who set out on a road trip to the west coast together. One couple is a writer and his photographer girlfriend. The other is an ex-con freeloader and his psychologically damaged girlfriend.The writer, Brian Kessler (David Duchovny), intends to visit sites of various murders on the trip as research for a book. His girlfriend, Carrie Laughlin (Michelle Forbes) will photograph the sites for the book. But their main purpose, it seems, is to leave the area where they are living and head to California, like it is the promised land.Brad Pitt plays the role of Early Grayce, their passenger who passes through life with little intention. Juliette Lewis is Adele Corners, the girl who thinks she loves him. All four major performances are adept, but the characters of Early and Adele are so extravagantly drawn that they are the best things about this film.I am not a fan of this film, because it feels rather pointless. We might compare it to Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs"--about another academic who was naïve to the threats that exist in the world, but "Kalifornia" wallows in the sociopathy of Early, where "Straw Dogs" is about Dustin Hoffman's character, who represents society as a whole and is a proxy for the viewer.

Kalifornia would be just an OK movie, were it not for the performance of pretty-boy Brad Pitt. In this film, he is anything BUT pretty. In fact, he's so convincingly creepy, it makes my skin crawl just to think about this role.Whether or not he took on the role to battle type-casting is unimportant, because he does, in fact, show his acting chops amazingly well as the poor white trash monster. It's rare to see any actor take on the persona of a character so convincingly.The idea of this film is a good one, and executed fairly well, but could have been done better.In particular, Michelle Forbes character, Carrie, is extremely grating. Hers is a character who will fit into L.A. culture very well--bitchy, superior, and judgmental. I know I should sympathize with Carrie's correct assessment of the situation, but I just hate her too much to care. Of course, I could argue that without her bitchy superiority, there wouldn't be a story. On the other hand, Juliette Lewis' character, Adele, is charmingly endearing, and I found myself wishing for Adele and Duchovny's Brian to wind up together. Were it not for the cast, this movie would be unremarkable. But with the performance of the cast, I find myself watching it again and again over the years since its release. That must count for something!

Brad Pitt at his most evil. He is Early, an amoral human being who will destroy anyone for any reason whatsoever. Juliette Lewis is Adele, his companion in their world of woe. Early answers an ad to share a car ride with a journalist, Brian(David Duchovny) who has written a book about serial killers and is traveling to various sites of notorious crimes with his girlfriend,Carrie(Michelle Forbes), a photographer. The law abiding couple have no idea that their driving mates are completely insane.Even before the road trip Early had killed his landlord over a rent dispute and then did away with a gas station attendant during a robbery with his passengers unaware of the events. At one of the stops along the way, Carrie watches a television report about Early as a murder suspect. She and Brian become hostages and witness further mayhem, including a home invasion and police shooting. The four eventually have a violent last stand and the payoff is o.k. as far films of this genre go.