Travel the Dark Divide with David Cross!
Hey folks, Cobrak here with a fantastic film that you should definitely watch. If you like good films at least. If not, I'm sure there's another Transformers coming out soon or something.
The Dark Divide, directed by Tom Putnam, and based off the book Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Pyle might be my favorite film this year so far.
It certainly has a lot going for it; David Cross, beautiful landscapes and cinematography, awkward comedy, tragedy, adventure, and humanity in fairly equal measures, and a wonderful score. Oh, and a lot of David Cross ass (if that's your thing. I don't judge).
The Dark Divide tells the true story of Dr. Robert Pyle, a lepidopterist (person who studies butterflies and moths. Duh), who receives a grant that allows him to finance a weeks-long trek through the mountains of Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington in search of new butterfly species. The story of his adventure is interspaced with flashbacks of him and his wife dealing with her terminal cancer diagnosis. I know that description makes it kinda sound like a bummer, and parts of it are, but this is ultimately a story of how we triumph in the face of obstacles that we are in no way equipped for.
Cross has been one of my favorite comedic actors since I first saw Mr. Show as a teenager. But he also has a knack at playing these sort of down-trodden, almost pathetic, but somehow endearing characters. His Dr. Robert Pyle feels like he's
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