“Superheroes don’t hurt.”
A socially inept young man frozen by childhood trauma navigates adult life from behind a superhero mask and a child’s BMX bike, until he collides with a painfully shy woman who’s living a secret inner life as
Nicolas Cage.
I’m drawn to stories about hopeless hearts struggling to find each other. BMX is a fairy tale about two of them, a grown man hiding behind a kid’s bike and a superhero costume to mask childhood trauma and a woman quietly wishing she was Nicolas Cage so she’d have courage to meet the world… who both discover that their specific brands of brokenness fit together perfectly. Entertaining without cruelty, strange without mockery. A symphony of effort and failure that makes the broken parts visible enough to become healed.
The disguises we use to hide are the same ones that finally get us seen.
“The script feels fresh, mainly because it walks such a fine line between humor and tragedy. Overall, this is a story brimming with ideas and imagination.”
