What's Eating Gilbert Grape (EOTWS)
End Of The Week Shorts #40 extract: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a heart-breaking film about being trapped within a bubble of shame and embarrassment - a bubble of love and responsibility - and trying to make it a better place despite the chaos and atrophy around you, despite the pressures overshadowing that bubble and despite the temptations of the world and its freedoms that may lie beyond the shadowed poll you call your life and your family. This is then a film about attempting to traverse an internal corridor of torture that exists between the individual and the collective self.
Far too easily overlooked and forgotten as one of the most poignant and touching small-town dramas ever made, this is stacked with perfect writing, tremendous performances and so much more. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a classic and a great movie - undeniably so.
