Sitting in that trashy house with those bearded party boys, the girls seem heartbreakingly young. One guy asks, "How old are you again, Brittney?" "Fifteen." Awkward silence. Most ominously, they "party" with a group of older guys, 19, 20, etc. They all know it's wrong, but they don't seem to know what to do about it. All of them have been raped or at least bullied into sex. The girls understand everything that's happening to them, but they don't have the skills to ward off a lot of it. If anyone thinks that today's teenagers are somehow more enlightened, or more "on top" of things than previous generations, "Cusp" will be a cold shower of reality. Autumn now lives with (and takes care of) her ill father, and has fallen madly in love with a boy named Dustin. Autumn was not believed when she told her story, and the mother subsequently abandoned the family. And finally, there's Autumn, a fragile intelligent girl, who was molested by a friend of her mother's. Aaloni's mother is a "cool mom," smoking and drinking with her daughter, and giving her alarming self-defense tips ("Punch her in the crotch where you won't leave a mark.") Aaloni's dad, never seen, is a war veteran with PTSD, and the entire family walks on eggshells to avoid his temper. They look like a rational response to the chaos in which she has been raised. Her inflated ego is a smokescreen: as her story unfolds, she seems like the one most at risk, the one closest to being derailed by what are usually called "bad choices." When you hear Brittney's backstory, her "bad choices" don't look "bad" at all. Yes, I'm saying I hate myself." Brittney brags that everyone wants to be friends with her. Gives you something to do." Aaloni: "I'm not scared of shit." Autumn, memorably: "Personally, I f**king hate teenagers.
Voiceover narration shows up intermittently, and the girls narrate their lives in almost deadpan fashion. "Cusp" mostly lives on the inside, in the thick of it with the girls. The rest of the film avoids this type of explicit commentary. It's an excellent shot, although self-conscious in its juxtaposition: it is the view of an outsider. One of the boys starts pushing the girls on the swing, and the girls shriek and laugh. Nothing is strange about this to the kids in question. The first shot of "Cusp" is almost eerie: Two girls sit on a swing as two boys in the background shoot guns at a target, strolling into frame wielding gigantic automatic weapons. They sneak out of their houses to go to a party in the woods, a party broken up by the cops. They go to swimming holes, they stroll along dirt roads, phones sticking out of the back pockets of their short shorts. They are in each others' business, as good friends always are. Their home lives are less than ideal, and in some cases fraught with violence. The girls are often filmed sprawled out on one of their beds, long limbs intertwined, the casual and comforting pig-pile of lazy teenage girls. But "Cusp," with its dreamy imagery of golden sunsets and thunder-y twilights, empty Dairy Queen parking lots, and birds taking flight, is a mood-driven piece of work, sensitive to landscape and environment, and the girls' casual comments about rape (just one example) stand in stark contrast. Some might find the disconnect disconcerting, and they would not be wrong. "Cusp" has some serious things to say about teenage girls and the dangers surrounding them, but the directors have embedded themselves so totally in the girls' world, and the girls are so seemingly casual about all of it, that there's a disconnect at work. The summer is aimless and endless, and also intense and eventful. Then came a hug from Warriors teammate Draymond Green among others and, finally, Curry trotted back across the court for a long embrace and a few congratulatory words from Allen.Brittney, Autumn, and Aaloni are 15, 16 years old, and it is summertime. The Warriors then committed a foul and quickly called timeout to let the celebration begin.Ĭurry went and embraced his father, Dell Curry, who was seated along a baseline, while Bob McKillop, his coach at Davidson, stood in the stands and beamed alongside Larry Riley, who drafted Curry for the Warriors. Stephen Curry has shot his way to the top of the NBA record book for 3-pointers.Ĭurry hit his 2,974th 3-pointer Tuesday night in the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors’ game against the New York Knicks, breaking the record set by Ray Allen.Ĭurry hit the shot from the right wing with 7:33 remaining, waving his arms toward the sky as he jogged backward down court.
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