Joe Hill Playing Horny Horns

JOE HILL — HORNS — 2010

Two young people, Ig and Merrin, or Ignatius and Mary if you prefer, or whatever. Two young people who are just plain normal and deserve the perfect wedding of the end of the story and they will be happy ever after though they will have no children.

Their life was from the very start ruined by a compulsive liar who pretended to be the best friend of Ig and a good friend of Merrin. Lee he is named, like the general you know, and his family name should have made him suspicious since it is Tourneau, very French indeed, and the French are all chefs cooking the whole world in their kitchen of hell. He is also a thief and he can steal whatever he wants and particularly what belongs to his friends and in this case Ig’s girlfriend Merrin.

The vision of the situation in Gideon is a nightmare painted pink as if it were the happiest birthday party you can imagine. In fact, it is absolutely nothing but a big mess of frustrated people who have failed in all their actions and have made up with their failures. Few are those who do not fail. One of them is Ig’s brother Terry who is a successful trumpet player who has had a good career in Los Angeles as the host of some kind of popular TV show, something like a soft version of the famous Apprentice, the show that was the best starting block of the most dangerous comedian…