White Bird in a Blizzard
White Bird in a Blizzard is a 2014 film about a teenage girl whose mother disappears.
- Directed and written by Gregg Araki. Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke.
I was 17 when my mother disappeared...
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Kat Connors
[edit]- Because I never saw my mother again, she remains in absence to me. An empty space. An invisible, half remembered ghost. So even now I catch myself thinking that I'm gonna run into her some day. Like I'll be at a stop light, and look over at the car next to me and there she'll be, scowling at me with disapproval. Or I'll spot her across some crowded street, or train station, and we'll run toward each other like one of those cheesy TV movies. She'll hug me like a long, lost lover, then take my face in her long, graceful hands, look me in the eyes and say... "I'm here, Kat. I'm here."
- [narrating] I was seventeen when my mother disappeared. Just as I was becoming nothing but my body - flesh and blood and raging hormones - she stepped out of hers and left it behind.
- [narrating] Dr. Thaler reminds me of an actress playing the therapist. And when we have a session, I feel like an actress playing myself.
- I miss fucking you.
Dialogue
[edit]- Detective Scieziesciez: Once there was this... obese man. Some sick fuck had doused him with gasoline and then lit him on fire. And by the time we got to the body, two days later, he was still burning.
- Kat Connor: What?
- Detective Scieziesciez: Guy had so much body fat he's like a human candle.
- Kat Connor: I know Phil's not the smartest crayon in the box.
- Mickey: That is the understatement of century.
- Kat Connor: That's what I kind of like about him, you know. He's just simple. I know it sounds perverse, but he's kind of like my dad in that way. You scratch the surface, and there's just more surface.
- Kat Connor: God! Jesus, you scared me! How long have you been standing there?
- Eve Connors: Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. Well, are you going to answer my question?
- Kat Connor: What question?
- Eve Connors: That boy next door. Do you love him?
- Kat Connor: What are you talking about? It's none of your business.
- Eve Connors: I don't love your father. I can't stand him as a matter of fact.
- Kat Connor: What the fuck? Why would you say that to me? Go fucking tell it to someone else!
About this film
[edit]- It was so much fun. Everyone was freaked out because I’m nude, but in real life, when I have sex, I’m naked. I don’t have a bra on, and I don’t usually have panties on. So let’s make a real movie! Let’s bring truth to the scene! I didn’t want to be exploited, but this girl—like most girls when they first have sex—doesn’t know what she’s doing. I wanted their first kiss to be sloppy, teenagerish making out. When you’re younger, you think you know what to do, but you really don’t.
- Shailene Woodley in Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It in Vulture (2014 Jun 1)
Cast
[edit]- Shailene Woodley - Kat Connors
- Ava Acres - 8-year-old Kat
- Eva Green - Eve Connors
- Christopher Meloni - Brock Connors
- Shiloh Fernandez - Phil
- Gabourey Sidibe - Beth
- Thomas Jane - Detective Scieziesciez
- Angela Bassett - Dr. Thaler
- Dale Dickey - Mrs. Hillman
- Mark Indelicato - Mickey
- Jacob Artist - Oliver
- Sheryl Lee - May
