"Horse"
"Damn"
I'm quoting from Eagle Vs. Shark, a 2007 film that I finally got around to watching. Like Napoleon Dynamite, you don't know anybody like the characters in Eagle Vs. Shark, but you do know slightly muted versions of them. Jarrod (played by Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Concords fame) is an exaggerated version of many people I've known through out the years. I have met people with traits like Lily (Loren Horsley), but not all in one person. The main characters are awkward, sad, and even pathetic (in the beginning of the film.) Watching these two find love is mostly uncomfortable, but after all the silliness, the movie is actually, dare I say, sweet.
I'm doing everything in my literal power to avoid comparing the movie Napoleon Dynamite, but I'm at a lose for other movies that made taken socially-challenged characters and made the viewers care about them. The comparison has to be made. The reason I was avoiding it though is because I don't want to sway people away who didn't like Napoleon Dynamite. Eagle Vs. Shark is a love story at its core and a beautiful one at that... in an ugly duckling kind of way.