Indie Ellen

I've been watching a lot of random movies lately, specifically indie movies, and there were a couple with Ellen Page pre Juno. They were really weird but I liked them.
One of them was The Tracey Fragments about this girl Tracey who at the very beginning of the movie is riding a city bus wearing a shower curtain. The rest of the movie shows how Tracey gets a lot of crap at school and then she accidentally hypnotises her little brother making him think he's a dog, he runs off and no one can find him. Everyone assumes he is dead so Tracey feeling super guilty runs away to look for him. The longer she can't find him the more she unravels with crazy things happening to her (not the fun kind of crazy) it ends with Tracey riding the bus having just gotten away from a man with only a shower curtain to protect her. The really interesting thing about this movie was that all of the shots are segmented on the screen so that you see maybe three or four different things happening at the same time or several angles of the same thing. That part of the movie I liked, it was a little confusing at first but it's like most weird visual things, you get used to it after while.
The other one I watched last night was Mouth to Mouth about Sherry who ran away from home and ends up with this group in euprope called Spark who are pretty much just street kids taking care of one another. After being with this group for a bit Sherry's mom shows up to see what's going on and decideds she wants to stay with the group too which obviously freaks Sherry out a bit. The group finds a house to stay at and while they are there their leader Eric decides to make more rules and says that in order to make sure that people are following the rules he's got people in the group to test each other try and get them to break rules and whatnot. Nancy another girl in the group decides that she wants to leave for a bit and tells Sherry this. Sherry not sure is she's being tested or not talks to her mother about it, she doesn't tell anyone else because she doesn't want to get Nancy in trouble. Sherry's mom does tell Eric what Nancy was planning and so he calls a groupl meeting and calls Nancy out on it, Nancy accidentally lets it slip that she was planning on leaving with someone else. Instead of letting the other person get in trouble Sherry steps up and says it was all her idea. As punishment Sherry and Nancy are put in the pit which is an old well, Nancy starts to freak out and has an asthma attack. Sherry tries to get help but Eric makes sure that no one pays any attention to them. One guy who is on Sherry's side (I can't remember his name) sneaks out to the pit and gets Sherry and Nancy out Sherry tries to get everyone to leave with her now that they can see what Eric did to Nancy but only the guy who got her out of the pit and one other lady leave. Sherry's mother even stays. The end is Sherry and the guy walking off down the street.
I liked both movies even though they were a lot darker then I usually like. I am a fan of indie movies the trouble with some of them though is that they have no studio to tell them when they've crossed a line so they can get too dark or weird or just not make sense. That is also the upside to indies the no studio thing means the director can make the movie they want to make without having to worry about the studio trying to make it too commercial. I think that both of these movies walk right in the line which works out well for them.