THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS MOVIE
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS SERIES

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS SERIES

The construction of the narrative takes place as a series of vignettes, or the titular 'fragments', of scenes from a young girl's life. It was first published in 1998 at House of Anansi Press. What remains and resonates, however, is the disturbed voice of youth. The Tracey Fragments is a novel by Canadian author Maureen Medved. The language jerks all over in unsettling rants, chaotic flashbacks, and the hypnotizing streams of a spoilt girl’s love-talk. The Tracey Fragments has a vengeful tone, which makes for an oppressive read.

The hell of adolescence is a hard thing to depict without using humour as a buffer. The much alluded to something that is the crux of Tracey’s crisis does not explode because truth has been bled bit by bit. Thankfully, the novel’s conclusion appears as an action that stems from the character rather than just a neat literary device. Medved has carefully positioned Tracey’s standoff between fantasy and reality. Her fractured personality controls the narrative so when she speaks outside of herself – as “Estuary Palomino,” as “IT,” and as “the girl with no tits” – these fragments dissolve into each other. Medved has created a difficult character. In her defensive dreams she becomes “Estuary Palomino,” untouchable in a world where track-marked boys are romantic visions and sex is something more than the grotesque vibrations of desperate animals. The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 Canadian psychological drama film directed by Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved. Tracey’s journey is propelled by anger and longing. Tracey sets out to search for Sonny and her sanity, and in the process, spills out her story. Her life lessons some amusing, others quite harrowing pile up with. The only people she cherishes are her younger brother, Sonny, who has disappeared, and her quasi-boyfriend/tormentor, Billy Speed. : The Tracey Fragments (9780887847684) by Medved, Maureen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at. We see her with her an assortment of unsavory characters she meets along the way. Tracey Berkowitz is a 15-year-old runaway who hates her life, her parents, and herself. With The Tracey Fragments, Vancouver-based playwright Maureen Medved makes a valiant effort.

Few authors are brave enough to express that part of adolescence that harbours a violent and sexual energy, or accurate enough to make it count. It’s a futile effort, though, as writer Maureen Medved regularly undercuts her protagonist’s intense disorientation by saddling her with Juno-esque quips (“Happy people, they friggin’ depress me, you know?”) that even Page-by virtue of her ho-hum delivery-seems to find lame.The tortured teen in fiction is frequently depicted with a sense of mortification, romanticism, or exasperation. Playing a character whose hang-ups have textbook root causes (dysfunctional parents, school bullies), and whose quest to locate brother Sonny (Zie Souwand) is rambling and insipid, Page nonetheless does her best to deliver a focused portrait of adolescent turmoil. These elements, as well as Tracey’s pointless interactions with a cross-dressing psychiatrist (Julian Richings), all contribute to a collage structure that strains for expressionistic profundity but, because Tracey’s distress never seems to warrant such aggressively schizo treatment, amounts to simply avant-garde fiddling. Clumsily externalizing the internal, McDonald pads out his 77-minute indie with symbolic imagery (crows, naked body parts, a shot of a closing door that, when tipped on its side, resembles a closing coffin) and some rock-video fantasy interludes in which Tracey imagines herself as the girlfriend of new classmate Billy Zero (SlimTwig).

Mundane incidents are presented from different and/or alternate perspectives that offer scant insight into her predicament, so that, for example, Tracey is-for no appreciable reason-simultaneously seen smiling at and ignoring a random, cackling elderly man on the bus.

Yet as the story slowly and non-chronologically reveals the events that led Tracey to her current circumstances, this stylistic tactic quickly comes to seem like a smokescreen aimed at obscuring the film’s narrative slimness and psychological shallowness. With the demanding amount of movement and graphics on the screen at any given time, its a true wonder that the.

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS MOVIE

Director Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments, a splintered form ostensibly intended to match the psyche of his protagonist, a screwed-up teenager named Tracey Berkowtiz (Ellen Page) who, at outset, is wrapped in a shower curtain while sitting on a city bus. (DVD and movie review by James Musgrove) Video and Presentation.

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