February 15, 2021

A perfect pairing of sound & vision - Starship and The Skeleton Twins


Do you need some joy in your life? Watch the below scene from The Skeleton Twins. But only the below scene. The rest of the film might leave you feeling a little blue.

Maggie (Kristin Wiig) and Milo Dean (Bill Hader) are two very depressed people. After his suicide attempt interrupted her suicide attempt she's brought her twin brother home from LA to recuperate and old patterns are re-emerging. A tragedy in their youth has left them two broken people and life is really not turning out how they had hoped. As siblings tend to do they fall apart and make up and wash, rinse, repeat but this time Milo has rightly pissed Maggie off. So he reaches into the past for a way to cheer her up. But she's having none of it.  

 

Isn't that just wondrous stuff. A rare musical sequence that both moves the story on and gives us an insight into the characters in it. The shorthand that exists between family members that outsiders will never get. Just look at Maggie's husband Lance's (Luke Wilson) face. He's baffled but happy that she's happy. Kristin Wiig's perfectly timed entry into the song. Milo's delight at her acquiescence, knowing what's coming next. Moves you know they've practiced a 1000 times as children, now being used to heal wounds inflicted in adulthood. A song and dance doesn't fix everything. But it's a damn good start.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. Indeed. 

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