High praise indeed! While we had hoped to see the film on the big screen at its IndieFest premiere on February 4, when we heard that Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella, the stars of the movie (and who are involved in real life), were going to be in town doing interviews earlier that day, we scammed a screener so we could talk to them without sounding completely ignorant.

While to subject matter of may be shocking to some, its themes are universal: frustration, alienation, and crazy adolescent love. Jimmy is a monipulative 21-year-old a**hole, who insists on living his live behind a video camera. Judy is the outcast teenager whom he woos by punishing the classmates who have tormented her and trips to the gun range. In the vein of obsessive love road movies such as Natural Born Killers, our young heros end up on the wrong side of the law, and in increasingly surreal predicaments.

While the actual situations the characters find themselves in aren't the most original or relatable -- for example, there's a clearly meant-to-be-shocking scene where Jimmy films his unsuspecting parents, played by the game Gay Storm and 90210 patriarch James Eckhouse, as they engage in a little light S/M role play and some pegging. The implication that seeing two consenting, married adults engaging in that kind of play seemed sweetly provincial to us. This was our attitude for a lot of the more intentionally bizarre aspects of the film -- that we love the idea of an audience that's still capable of being shocked by dildoes, raving meth heads, and full frontal nudity, but to us it's just another ride on the damned N Judah.

To us, the heart of the film was in the relationship and power-play between the main characters. We were truly engaged by the evolution of their romance as the film progressed, and found it to provide some of the mose genuine moments we've seen at IndieFest thus far.

See Jimmy and Judy Sunday 9:30 PM at the Women's Building.

Jimmy and Judy