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Cillina Murphy Marathon day 6
Breakfast on Pluto

So this is the story of an psychologically disturbed transvestite homosexual Irish foster child who grows up and travels around against the backdrop of political tensions in 60's-70's Ireland and England. "Kitten" was at times charming, sweet, innocent, and irreverent, but just as capable of being maddeningly obtuse, stubborn, and annoying. I never fully sympathized with this character, although I alternately pitied, rooted for, and disliked her.

The performance was good but a little weird. It was convincing, Cillin did a good job of selling me on the character, but the problem is this character never really felt real. There was never any clear motivation or character traits behind it all- nothing made any sense. She just floated along on a whim, changing to suite the circumstances but always being weird and never really fitting in. At times you could cry for her because she just needed to be loved and accepted (and find her mom) but at times you just wanted to smack her and demand 'Just what in the hell are you doing with your life?!?'

In the end, I just wondered what the point of watching that movie was (other then crossing off another title in the Cillian Murphy filmography). Was it to entertain? I don't know, the laughs and the tone were very inconsistent for an entertainment movie. Was it a drama? The character was just too flakey and inconsistent to pull me into a drama. Was it to show us something of the human condition? Perhaps that was the intent, but again the character would have to be at least a little more grounded for that to take hold- something like what I anticipate from Transamerica.

I didn't hate it, but I can't really recommend Breakfast on Pluto either. Cillian was good, but the character needed work. That may be on the director (or maybe it's just me). Two and a half stars, maybe three if I'm in a good mood.