Film Corner with S.P. Johnson

Trailer Park Boys - The Movie

Let me just begin by stating that I haven't seen the movie, but I know it's going to be good and can't wait for it to come out on DVD. I may even wait for it to go on the used rack at Blockbuster and pick up a copy for my own personal collection. While I have not yet made a pilgrimage to the original Trailer Park location I can tell you that I have lived in a trailer park and their depiction of life therein is spot on. I'd be makin' my way to work and there'd be Jill and Will Bimmer at the kitchen table of their double-wide with a fresh bottle of Smirnoff between 'em. This was at eight in the mornin' folks so if you think you got a drinkin' problem then think again.

One time I came back from a couple a weeks away, I don't know where, and Frank from up the road was gone. I asked where he was and evidently he had taken a couple of shots at Crazy Pete's place one night over who knows what so they came and took him away. Another time Crazy Pete tried breaking into my schoolbus while I was sleepin' and then claimed he had spent the previous night talking to his brother which turned out to be his reflection in the window.

Evidently they had used a tank with a bulldozer blade welded on it to dredge out the swimmin' hole at the campground section. The owner's wife was runnin' an Asian Meditation workshop in the main barn and people used to actually show up from all over. I don't think she'd even been to Chinatown let alone know what Reiki was... Gus over in lot 44 was a Vietnam Vet who used to regale us with stories about "crispy critters" until he'd start twitchin' and then it was time to go home. The manager had spent ten years in jail so the owner figured he was perfect for the job.

One winter me and some other guy almost killed ourselves cuttin' down trees for firewood, I don't know if we were even on the property or not - and then bucked it, split it and bagged it and I don't think we ever got paid. I went back a few years ago and now they've developed it and some sucker spent half a million dollars to look at the same rocks I used to look at for almost nuthin'. Heeyachkkuh-cough-cough, oh yeah... pptuyp. The Trailer Park Boys are fuckin' hilarious.