Jack Smith movie reviews:        Date 02-05-2001

Head Over Heals

(Tape 1) There are a couple new movies out that have some interest in their title. The movies themselves are not all that brilliant as far as giving us a lot of new information. But there is several cute little comedies that are either out this week or coming out. One of them has Freddie Prinze in it. It’s a new comedy called, “Head over Heals.” The name is more interesting than the movie and the way they are structuring the outline in their advertisements is telling you something. The story, they say, is about one regular girl, four supermodels, who are her roommate and one boy and the boy may or may not be a murderer. The four is the number of “things of the world.” The four supermodels are “commercial” things of the world. In the story, they make a point of the fact that the supermodels do not pay for anything, “Oh, my God, we’re supermodels, why would we pay?” Does any of the citizen subjects pay anything? Not at all, there is no money with which to pay.

The story is very simple, the one regular girl is too naive’, when it comes to boyfriends. She falls in love too easily and is always taken by lies and deceit of the men that come [to] to date her. Therefore, she has now suggested that she’s given up on men and she’s not gonna date em anymore. She’s just been thrown out of a relationship with one of the guys, that obviously was lying to her, and so she’s gotta seek an apartment in New York City. She starts looking at the “apartments for rent” advertisements and she circles one and goes to this apartment because it says that it has a bedroom that a girl can rent for $500 a month. A tremendous deal, if it’s a decent place to stay. She shows up at this building and from the outside she can’t believe, as nice as this building is, that she’s gonna get a bedroom apartment, in this building, for 500 a month. She goes up in the elevator, to the apartment, knocks on the door; she’s led into this huge beautiful room by this one supermodel girl. And the supermodel girl asks what she’s there for.

And she says, “Oh I’ve come to respond to the advertisement for the bedroom.” And so the supermodel girl starts asking her questions about herself and how she’s gonna be able to pay.

The girl says, “Yes, I’ve got a job.”

And the supermodel goes, “Oh my goodness, you work? This is great, things are going fantastic.” And, “What’s your name?” and, “Where do you work?” All this other stuff and [and so she finally.] the girl asks to see the bedroom and so the supermodel takes her, opens this door and there’s a room about the size probably of that bathroom in there. And the girl looks at it, says “500 a month You call this a bedroom?”

And the supermodel says, “Well yea it’s a bedroom.”

And the girl says, “Looks more like a closet to me.”

And the supermodel says, ”Oh, you want to see the closet? Now that’s where you wanna put your floor space!” So she opens this door off of the closet and you see a room bigger than this room, which is loaded with clothes, clothes racks and shoes racks. And the supermodel says, “When you have clothes, you gotta have a place to put em. You only sleep in the bedroom. You don’t need a lot of space in there, but your clothes need room.”

So the girl goes, “Well I’m not so sure.” she says, “Do we have any other roommates?”

And she says, “Yes three other girls.”

And she says, “Well where do they work, what do they do?”

She says, “Oh we don’t work, we’re supermodels.”

And she says, “Well that settles it, I don’t think I’m going to take the room.”

And the supermodel says, “Why not?”

She says, “Well I don’t like supermodels.”

And the supermodel says, “Why not?”

“Because I just lost my last boyfriend to a supermodel.”

And the supermodel says, “Well, we won’t steal your boyfriends, you’re gonna love it here.” So [they] she decides to move in.

When she moves in, the supermodels decide that they have to take the “regular girl” under tow and teach her the ropes of the game. “We can’t have a roomie here that doesn’t know what’s going on.” And, “She must be a backwoods hick.” So every night the boys start lining up, out in the lobby, around 4:30 in the afternoon. And the girl can’t figure out why are the boys lining up. “Oh, they all want to take us out tonight.”

“Well why do they line up out there?”

“Well we can’t go out with all of ‘em, so we just let em line up. And when we decide to go out and have dinner, we go out and we open the door and we pick the four and they’re the ones that get to take us out for the night.”

And so [she] the girl says, “Well where do you go?”

“Oh we go to all of the really nice places.”

She says, “Well you’s are supermodels and everything but, how do you afford that?”

“Oh we don’t have to afford it, we’re supermodels, we don’t pay for anything. Our dates pay for everything.”

And she goes, “Well how do you afford this huge apartment. This thing must cost you a fortune.”

And the supermodels say, “Don’t you get it, we’re supermodels, we don’t pay for anything. The agency provides this apartment for us.”

“Well then why are you renting to me?”

“Oh the $500 that you bring in every month, is just like petty cash for us so we can go out and buy whatever the boys don’t buy us. That’s why you’re here.”

So she’s going, “Oh, okay.”

So they start making her up to be like the supermodel and everything. It’s just not her style. But they find a boy that’s in these tall apartment buildings, it’s across the way, down the way and his shades are always open and our girl starts falling in love with him. But [she’s] she doesn’t want to go meet him because she’s sworn off men. But the supermodels in her life decide “Oh, we’ll fix you right up, we’ll introduce you and whatever and get things going.” So she’s being pushed by the “supermodels”- commercial side of society. And just about the time that she thinks maybe this’ll work, she finds out that her boyfriend is too commercial too, doesn’t want to have anything to do with it and it looks like the relationship’s off. But then it turns out that they meet and on his private side, he now has convinced her that he’s not the commercial front that he looks like. That, in his private life, he hates the commerce and it looks like a match made in heaven.

But she keeps watching the apartment and one night this crazy good-looking girl comes in, the shades are partially drawn and it looks like, in the shadows on the shade, that he’s got a baseball bat. And he knocks the lady in the head and she falls down on the carpet and is most likely dead. And so she reports to the cops that there has been an incident and a woman killed in a neighboring apartment. When the cops go to investigate, there’s no evidence of anything. But the girl, that she saw allegedly killed, has not shown up now for a period of weeks and there’s all kinds of funny excuses as to why she isn’t there. And needless to say, the cops, instead of going after the alleged murderer, the guy, are now charging her with filing false reports and creating all kinds of havoc for the public officials.

So you’ll see in the structure of what’s going on in this movie, “Head over Heals”, exactly the kind of commercial process that we as patriots are used to in our life all the time between the public and private. Head-over-heals, “head” is your thinking process, your heals are your acts or actions. The four supermodels are basically nothing more than hollow girls, no thoughts, no mind, no anything. Just, “What can we get?” and, “What’s it worth to us.” and, “We’re titles of nobility because we’re privileged. ‘Cause we’re pretty and everybody’ll pay for that and we got it coming to us.” Whereas the girl is the church, she’s substance not form. So you have a house of five girls. Four – “things of the world” One – “the church” who is not yet come out and understood who she is and what’s she doing. And of course, she’s after the man that she thinks might be her future husband i.e. the government. But we don’t know whether the government is honest, or a crook. Is the government De Facto or is the government Dejure? So it’s got a very cute little framework in that movie, asking you the questions.