By: MichaelC2B

MichaelC2B — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:14:13 +0000

Very nice review, mizzoH. I have and love all of Alex’s work, but FEED is my favorite of all of his movies. I adore the character Michael, and Alex shows off his brilliant range so well portraying him.
This film is exciting, interesting, and I find it very moving. The things that happened to Michael as a child make him a very sympathetic character to me, and I immediately found myself rooting for him. I did not find the movie disturbing at all, and one of my favorite things about it is the humor. Some would call it dark humor – I just found it delightfully funny at times. Even if I had never seen Alex before FEED, I know that I would have been drawn to Michael. He is intelligent, funny and mischievous – not to mention a very snappy dresser…
I was surprised at myself, as I have never been partial to blond hair on a man, nor have I cared for a man with no chest hair. Alex is blond (they even did his eyebrows to match) and had his chest waxed for this film – I believe to add to Michael’s boyish charm. It worked for me! Alex has proven in his various roles that no matter what he does to himself for a part, the man still looks gorgeous. I know some women are alarmed if Alex deviates from his long hair as Mick on Moonlight – but I think he would be gorgeous even bald, as proven when he portrayed Marcus in The Invisible. Having the passion that he does for his craft, he shaved his head for that part.
Alex is obviously very proud of FEED, as well he should be. He came up with the idea of doing a film about feeders and gainers, and he did co-write and co-produce. I love hearing him talk about his hours and hours of research in his interviews, and in FEED in Filly it was so much fun to hear him talk about doing his own stunt, the balcony leap. He should be proud – that triple twist that he did in midair was no easy feat!
Some of my favorite scenes are in the deleted scenes on the DVD, especially “Deirdre’s Nightmare” and “Poetry Reading”. All of the extras are great, and I would recommend that if you haven’t seen the movie yet, that you watch Alex’s interviews before watching the film. They give you a better understanding of the whole concept of feeders and gainers, and maybe some who might be hesitant to try the movie would have a bit more of an open mind to start off with.
To sum it all up, I adore Alex, I adore FEED and I adore Michael Carter. As mizzoH said, I don’t want to say anything that will give away too much of the story, but I will say that early on in the film I wanted to jump in the screen and beat Phillip with a bat. The way I see it, Michael made the women happy and they were doing what they loved to do before Michael ever met them – eating. After seeing the movie, I didn’t even think of Michael as a serial killer. He seemed to be falling for Deirdre and had mixed feelings about what he was doing with her, until Phillip showed up and “pushed him over the edge”. Anyone who doesn’t feel sympathetic towards Michael after seeing what his mother did to him as a child – his one rant to Phillip lets us know that he was sexually abused by her as well as treated like a slave – well, you must have missed something in the story. Seeing Michael sitting there crying and running his fingers through his food encrusted hair after his “food orgy” with Deirdre was enough to make me want to hold and comfort him. It is amazing the way Alex can make us see so much more of what is going on with his characters than what is in the script, and I fell in love with Michael Carter. Buy FEED, and I think you will fall in love with Michael too.

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