![]() He also sounded exactly like an older female putting on a bad imitation of a young boy, with one of the worst attempts at a Southern accent I'd ever heard. LeRoy speak, something wasn't right he didn't sound real. But when I finally heard the mysterious J. As a psychiatric nurse who worked in the city's mental health wards, I found his character to be intriguing and a spokesperson for many of the patients I spent time with. He was a celebrated, hyped young writer who seemingly had experienced a life of physical and sexual abuse, had spent time in an adolescent psychiatric unit in the Bay Area, and was a recluse who rarely left his apartment. I've lived in San Francisco for most of my life, and I learned of J. Too bad, cuz there is a pretty good movie here, and one helluva story. The role of gender variations is a key underlying theme, and unfortunately, is fumbled. As complicated as all this all sounds, it is much more than that. As the controlling director of white lie operations, Dern is fabulous as both the manipulative author, and as the uptight handler Speedy she creates to oversee her mystery puppet. LeRoy, the film, zooms in on the tightening noose Albert has created with her tepid boyfriend's sister - a wonderfully understated, uncomfortable, unnerved, silly wigged Kristen Stewart. Which would have been fine, and in literary circles, not that uncommon, except that Albert decided to bring her greatest fictional character to life. A gender fluid teen, Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy was the pen name of Laura Albert. Messes can be good though, and this curious ride delivers the old truth is crazier than fiction roller coaster thrill of thin celebrity skin, and those infatuated with peeling back layers at all costs. LeRoy is first and foremost, a delicious vehicle for thespian wonder Laura Dern, and second, a bit of mishandled mess. Savannah and Justin Kelly attended the same Toronto international film festival showing that I did.īased on a true story that was based on a big fat lie, J.T. Surprisingly, 90% of the film was shot in Winnipeg. Stewart does a wonderful job in the role. ![]() ![]() The film explores how something like JT could happen, primarily with regard to Savannah, and the ramifications for the people involved. JT LeRoy is fascinating and relevant because everyone, to one extent or another, wears masks and no one is really who they say they are. But JT is loved for giving people the freedom to be whoever they want and to explore the darker regions of the human experience, and such will never die. She plays JT for years, falls in love as JT, and the story gets to the Cannes film festival before Savannah is outed as a fraud. ![]() Savannah does this well, in fact too well. Savannah (Kristen Stewart) is convinced by her sister-in-law, the real author, to pose as JT. When JT writes a best seller about his life as a gender mysterious truck stop sex worker, there is intense pressure for the author to reveal himself. ![]() "The truth," said Oscar Wilde "is rarely pure and never simple." This is the case in the true story and stranger than fiction tale of Savannah, a real life avatar for the fictional author JT LeRoy. ![]()
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