Reg Harkema is a Vancouver director now working in Toronto. His first movie, A Girl is a Girl, was a lo-fi hit and his second was the flawed but intriguing Monkey Warfare. He has now turned his attention to a retelling of the Manson famiy trial, offset by the story of a young chemist selected to be on the jury. Perry is trying to do everything right but he can't stop thinking about cute murderous Leslie, even when she cuts a cross into her forehead and shaves her head. Will he be able to vote for the death penalty?
Harkema believes he has made a profound artistic statement about the fine line between good and evil, but he hasn’t. He might also think this is a funny film, which it is not. It is quite violent but pretty and it is entetaining but pointless. Harkema could have pushed this much further and I wish he'd given us a film with a bit more substance.
The best story about this film comes from the title, a song by the band Pink Mountaintops. Harkema named the film after the song but then discovered the actual lyric was “Leslie, my name isn’t Eva.”
There is no picture here because they are all too disturbing.