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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Hidden Gem That Hit Home When I Needed It
This review contains spoilers.
I never write movie reviews because it's all subjective. I tend to migrate to movies and music I can relate to the most. I'm also going to overshare.
Last year my best friend who I thought was happily married with 5 kids shot himself in the head. We were friends since we were 8 years old. I'm now 37. I didn't know how to feel. I thought it was cliche to be angry. It was a lot of being disappointed at first, feeling like no one really understood him like I did. Everything from his obituary to his funeral was a disappointment to me. But the one thing I had trouble with was grieving. I'm usually a robot when it comes to grief but this time was different. It was like I owed it to him and myself to grieve for his death. But I felt like I hit a brick wall when it came to grieving. I would cry for a few seconds during random sad scenes in movies and tv shows, but I couldn't have that cathartic cry and grieve for my best friend.
I never got closure on why my friend took his own life much like Dean and I could relate to everyone moving on when my life felt like it stood still in that moment when I heard about it.
I remember watching this movie when I was younger but I watched it again because like many movies I watch I couldn't remember how it ended, yet now all I know is the ending.
When Dean says that he didn't know Charlie was going to kill himself. That he wish he could have done something to stop it and when Dean confronts Charlie's mom at the end and tells his mom about her own son, I completely lost it. I haven't cried like that since I was a kid, and I continued to cry through the credits and after.
Look, I know movies are art, and art is subjective, not everyone can relate to this movie or even sees it as a good movie, but this piece of art touched something inside of me that hasn't been awaken since I was a kid. I believed the acting. I was sucked into the tone and the atmosphere and I could relate to what Dean felt. This review isn't for others looking to watch the movie. Mostly it's a thank you to everyone involved in the creation of the movie...To show them that it moved someone, and to thank them for their creation.