Her sort of sad, but grateful “thanks Damon, I like that a lot” at the cute, but artistically challenged drawing, brings me to tears every time. When Lily gets fired from her job, Damon draws her a picture of a cat fishing to cheer her up. It’s revealed that their parents have passed away from heart attacks and Damon and Lily only really have each other.
This omission manages to make Lily and Damon’s relationship seem all the more meaningful. Lily’s situation seems all the more lonely and her desire for a connection with Jarrod all the more understandable considering that she is never shown in the film to have a true friend or confidante of her own other than Damon. The relationship between Lily and her brother Damon (Joel Tobeck) especially knocks on my heart.
Their situation as outcasts, each in their own way, is recognizable to anyone who ever felt a bit different from their peers.įor a comedy, there are some incredibly poignant, sweet, and sad moments. If you haven’t gathered already from the plot description, this is a quirky film, where you are encouraged to laugh with the offbeat antics of the two leads, yet, unlike Lily’s co-workers, you never feel like laughing at them. They begin a relationship, which is instantly tested by a trip together back to Jarrod’s hometown where he has plans to (literally) battle his nemesis, a bully who tormented him in high school… Lily retrieves it and attends in her place, dressed as a shark, impressing Jarrod, who has come as an eagle. Instead, he invites one of her snooty, popular co-workers to the “dress as your favorite animal party” that he is hosting, with a hand drawn invitation she promptly laughs at and throws in the trash. He is Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), an equally nerdy video game enthusiast who is completely oblivious to Lily’s affection. Getting her through the greasy, unfriendly 9 to 5 is the eagerly anticipated moment each day when her crush walks in for lunch. Twenty-something Lily (Loren Horsley – now Loren Taylor) works in a fast foot restaurant where she is either ignored or laughed at by her co-workers because she is timid, wistful, a bit nerdy, and clearly different from the rest of them. I had never heard of Clement, no one I knew had, but he was big enough in New Zealand at the time that Shay and Sera were already fans. When I was back in the United States and I had a chance to see it, I watched Eagle vs Shark on my own.
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Shark actor Jemaine Clement’s TV show, Flight of the Concords first aired on HBO in the United States. It came out that year in 2007, right around the time of my trip and also around the time that Eagle vs.
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I also heard about a movie which would become a permanent indie favorite of mine, Eagle vs Shark. Before anyone I knew (myself included) heard about Skype, I found out about it through Shay and Sera, who used it on their laptop to keep in touch with their parents. They had rented a car and were traveling all across Europe together, stopping wherever suited them. We pal’d around the hostel and took a day trip to Antibes together, enjoying the rocky beach and taking photos of each other swimming in the ocean. It was there I met Shay and Sera, brother and sister travel mates around my age from New Zealand. The hostel was set up almost like a college dorm room…only there were no doors and it felt like a bright, open cave with beds where air blew in and you had views of the city and sea. It was my first trip abroad and I was staying in a hostel, my first time in one of those, too (fortunately, I missed seeing the 2005 movie under that name or I may not have been so keen on the idea). It was 2007 and I was on vacation in Nice.
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