Wild tigers I have know
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Malcolm Stumpf
T hirteen-year-old outcast Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) wants to be loved. This is discernible from the fact that he writes "I Want To Be Loved" on his shirtless torso with red lipstick. And when the young boy has his romantic overtures rebuffed by brooding hunk Rodeo (Patrick White), he suffers a broken heart. This is evident from his decision to scrawl "I Am A Broken " on his chest. And on and on and eye-rollingly on goes the preciousness of Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I Have Known, an emphatically avant-garde affair that recurrently undercuts its portrait of evolving pubescence with groan-worthy symbolic posturing. Like the spaced-out love child of Mysterious Skin and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things but without their respective finesse and lunacy, Archer's first full-length feature is fixated on the anxiety, self-doubt, and confusion of adolescence, charting Logan's struggles to make sense of his feelings for Rodeo in the face of both his straight friend Joey's (Max Paradise) preoccupation with attracting the attention of girls, as well as older bullies' verbal and physical abuse.