Film Summary DXIX (Mask)

Mask is one of those weird films that seems to feel all niches for me. It's heartfelt, it's provocative, depressing, Kind, entertaining and it's just really well-made.

The film seems to be a loose adaptation of the real life achievements and struggles of Roy L. Dennis. A young men who unfortunately suffer some form of facial disfigurement.

In a way you've almost seen this story a hundred times.
It's a story of a relatively good kid living in a less-than-ideal environment trying his best to fit in and Achieve with the world.
Only hear there's the added layer of abnormality.
As this poor kid just tries to maintain a simi-livable life. Rather that be achieving good school grads, getting a girlfriend or even something as mundane as acquiring a good Baseball card collection.
It helps that we also get the perspective of his mother was (played by Cher). The woman who not only has to deal with the burden of her sons medical problems, but also seems to be dealing with parenting issues of her own and very unhealthy drug habits.

If there's one thing I absolutely want to give credit to this movie for, it's for making bikers look Pleasant.
I don't know what it is about biker culture but especially in a film they always come off as just the worst aspects of a society.
And you can put them up against worst people to try and make em look bitter but they still come out looking like the biggest jerks. But somehow Mask is able to make this Rowdy group of outsiders, out to be the nicest most genuine group of humans you'll ever come across. Part of that is down to just Sam Elliott alone who's overall Charisma  is only comfortable to the inside temperature of the Sun.

Anyways I don't have anything that interesting to say about Mask. I think it's a great film that's worth a watch at least once.

Wait, I can think of one thing. I'm absolutely astounded that this movie works. In just about any other context I could see a movie like this just falling flat on its face. A Film that wants to teach a little lesson of morality but ends up to becoming a incoherent preaching mess.
There's somehow able to balance all of that in this film without tipping too far into utter obscurity or pedantic meaningless drama.
It's able to be almost 2 hours long and maintain a quick and entertaining pace with little more than good acting.