QUEENS LOGIC
A film review by Ann Hodgins
Copyright 1991 Ann Hodgins
It has been compared to DINER and THE BIG CHILL, and there is some truth in that claim. Like DINER, it is about boys becoming men, but in QUEEN'S LOGIC the women and less oppressed, stronger and more supportive of each other. Like THE BIG CHILL, it is about a get-together -- occasioned by a wedding in this case, not a funeral - that decisively changes the lives of the participants. But QUEENS LOGIC is funkier than BC and concerns itself with a different class and type of people.
I appreciated QUEENS LOGIC more than either of the other two movies. I enjoyed the performances more and somehow warmed to the characters more. I particularly delighted in Tom Waits as a gorgeously dressed, switchblade-wielding aesthete, and John Malkovich as a gay man who never met another gay man he could like.
Most of all I enjoyed the party scenes in QUEENS LOGIC. Earlier in the movie, a character announces enigmatically: "An event is about to take place that may or may not result in a wedding." During the party, this prophesy is strangely and wonderfully fulfilled.
I found the plot of QUEENS LOGIC unpredictable and the characters original. I enjoyed it and I recommend it to people who like movies about people and their relationships.
Ann Hodgins alternat@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca
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