1/8/2024 0 Comments Parkdale mall theater![]() ![]() All the people that Mikey relies upon after returning to Texas City are women, but like the wounded soldier in “The Beguiled” (both 1971 & 2017), he doesn’t actually care about these women that are supporting him, and he believes he’s slick enough to play them all and get away with it. Slowly, however, the film reveals that this charming scamp is also a habitual mooch, a liar, and possibly a sociopath whose selfish bad decisions damage anyone involved, including himself. And we understand when, legal employment eluding him, Mikey falls back on small time weed dealing to make ends meet. When we learn that our protagonist spent the last twenty years working in the adult film industry, Mikey even becomes a sympathetic figure in his plight as a former sex worker trying to go legit. Mikey is charismatic, confident, and still boyish in his 40s. His instant has-been ambiance, along with a manic persistence, compels us to root for underdog Mikey as we watch him reconnect with his wife and start applying for local jobs. ![]() The perversely upbeat song “Bye, Bye, Bye” by NSYNC plays on the soundtrack, communicating to us that this carbon copy K-Fed is a relic of the aughts, a Myspace page made flesh. In “Red Rocket”, we meet Simon Rex’s character Mikey on a bus returning home to Texas City (which in its coverage of the movie Vogue magazine mistook for a fictitious place invented by the filmmaker.) Mikey is financially broke, physically beaten, and fleeing from who knows what. The film they made begins with such a road trip. ![]()
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