The Runaways
Just saw The Runaways. It didn’t get very good reviews, but I found it emotionally moving. Something about the story of these girls who rode the wild tornado of fame struck a chord inside. The highs and the lows, it was rock ‘n’ roll.
I was also really impressed with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. I didn’t know anything about Joan Jett or The Runaways. I only know Joan Jett’s classic songs, which I loved when I was a kid. So I can’t comment on how true they were, but they seemed pretty dang genuine to me. These actresses are so young, and yet they can portray all this, the strange freedom and suffocating, things that go right beyond your wildest dreams, and falling so far down, the 70s… Yeah, they did have that spirit.
It was a good movie. Not the best, but it gave me a complex churn of emotions, and that’s pretty good, yeah.
