Soundtracks are so great sometimes. This weekend I watched for the 9583958 time one of my favorites “cruel” movies called Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
I say cruel movies ‘cuz they aren’t drama enough in my opinion even they are classified as drama. They are more than a usual drama they are that kind of movie that let you with a knot in your throat or let you in a wasted state of mind. This kind of movie is definitely my favorite for sure and this one has a special soundtrack.
So the movie is based in a novel from Patrick McCabe and is directed by the great Neil Jordan who knows how to make a “cruel” movie. If you watched Butcher Boy you know what I mean.
Breakfast on Pluto is starred by Cillian Murphy and Lian Neelson and since I watched this movie some years ago I can only remember Cillian as Paddy, a transgender even if I watch Batman I see him as Paddy :p.
The story is about Patrick Paddy Kitten Patricia (Murphy) in Ireland and she is trying to discover who her real parents are. She has great friends that are with her all the time and she ended up in London trying to survive and still looking for her mother.
Anyway it is not a common movie. You have to watch and feel it and it is also a politic movie that involves IRA.
Patricia (partick/ paddy) suffers a lot being a transgender and as seen as a terrorist and arrested. Anyway it is a BRILLIANT movie full of colours and an amazing cruel and let’s say funny story about a transgender trying to find her real mother during the early 70s.
And the soundtrack made it very, very special. All the songs fit so well that you feel you are really inside the movie which includes: The Rubettes, Joe Dolan, Harry Nilsson, Don Partridge, Bobby Goldsboro, Patti Page, Santo and Johnny and so on.
Watch it, listen to it and enjoy it….I so recommend this that is one of the best cruel movies I’ve watched in my life.
Bertie: You know, Kitten, I made a decision a long time ago.
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: What decision was that?
Bertie: That I wasn't destined for sentimental side of things. But if I ever did let myself fall for someone, I think it would be a girl like you.
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: Bertie, please, I have to stop you. There's something you should know.
Bertie: Or maybe what I should say is, it would be a girl not a million miles away from where I'm standing. What's the matter, Princess?
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: Well, you see, the thing is, Bertie, I'm not a girl.
Bertie: Oh, I knew that, Princess.
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: You did?
Bertie: Of course. What I said was, it would be a girl like you.
/me smiles nostalgically at the Rubettes :]
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