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Dangerous Parking: And Finding Space Is Hard, Too, December 21, 2009
This review is from: Dangerous Parking [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] (DVD)
By Brandon L. Jones
Noah Arkwright, a man absorbed in a self-made world of drugs, booze, women and film-making fame, is on the brink of collapse, running full-bore through a tunnel in which there seemingly is no proverbial light at the end--no exit. His legs, nevertheless, churn toward this end throughout this adaptation of Stuart Browne's novel "Dangerous Parking." But there's a sense of hope that accompanies Mr. Arkwright through the tunnel, albeit even if there is no reason for one to hope for a promising end after discovering Mr. Arkwright's over-the-top character, his personality flaws, if you will, and his robust appetite for the many vices that his life has offered.
The "fairy story" begins with Mr. Arkwright fleeing an AA meeting, barreling down the street ahead of the two people who, as one later finds out, are trying to save his life. In short, they do.
But there are some things in life that friendships and help cannot change, and Mr. Arkwright soons discovers one of these in the form of cancer, which prompts him to take a step back and reevaluate his plight in life with the help of a compassionate cellist, who his dead mother (in the form of an apparition) foretold would come as an angel to save him from himself before the end of his stint in rehabilitation.
She comes, a family life is born and life seems to level out. But Mr. Arkwright can't escape Fate, and viewers go along with him on journeys both past and present until his journey's end.
Some may feel the script is too full of profane language, others may feel that Mr. Arkwright doesn't deserve sympathy, empathy or any other emotion that conjures connecting feelings. But the writing of the script--in many parts nearly identical to Mr. Browne's novel--causes one's heart to sing along with the beautiful words that tell the story of a tragic tale from the mouth of a defeated man.
There really is no other movie like "Dangerous Parking," which never really caught on in the United States. One can tell by trying to buy the book or movie that it never quite obtained the popularity that, in at least my opinion, it truly deserves.
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