katikat | 3x LGBT: Breakfast on Pluto

What a weird movie. And not in a good way, at least for me. It's full of quirky characters and over the top situations - which I wouldn't mind per se. What I did mind was the main characters - I didn't like any of them and especially not Patrick "Kitten" Braeden, the lead character. Played by...

... Cillian Murphy. Oh, Cillian was gorgeous and his acting was top notch. I just hated Kitten. Kitten sailed through life stirring troubles where ever she went - and I'll call Kitten a "she" even though I never understood if her gender issues were real or just pretended to stir even more trouble, if Kitten was transgender, transsexual or a transvestite, that was never properly explained. She was a twink and she loved to let older men take care of her. She had no goal, no ambition in life, she ended up hustling in the streets, for Christ's sake, and she didn't care one frickin' bit. IMHO, she needed a shrink more than anything else. Very, very unlikable girl.

And then there were her friends, people she went to school with. A mentally challenged boy, the sweetest of all of them, who got killed by a car bomb, a young girl who was into drugs and a wannabe revolutionary who joined the IRA and was shot in the head by them as a traitor.

The most interesting thing, IMHO, was Kitten's relationship/friendship with Father Liam played by Liam Neeson. I loved that he stood up for Kitten in the end.

So... I don't regret seeing the film but I don't think I'll watch it ever again. Kitten was just too unlikable for me to re-visit her any time soon.