Jesus' Son

The title, incidentally, comes from the Velvet Underground song, Heroin, as isn't intended to be taken as the offspring of Christ. To be honest, when I began this film I was hoping for something that might be spiritually substantive, but instead I got a reasonably stylish, post-Pulp Fiction indie film about a nice guy with a drug problem. Actually, it's probably not fair to compare this to Tarantino's film because those who liked Pulp Fiction, won't necessarily like this and those who didn't, may like this. It feels exactly like what it is, a film whittled together from a collection of short stories. Name actors appear for a scene or two and then disappear or die, leaving our hero (well played by Billy Crudup) as the constant. He has an on-off relationship with Samantha Morton who is miscast, then he has a friend played by Denis Leary, and in one of the most unusually funny scenes in recent memory, works along side Jack Black in an Emergency Room. Later in rehab he shaves Dennis Hopper, and falls in love with Holly Hunter at an AA-like gathering. The films has some amusing scenes, but that's because it thinks in increments and not as a whole film. There are some interesting characters, but we never get to know them. Oh, well.