Movies: January 2005 Archives

I just watched "Pieces of April". It was really enjoyable. I was amused by both the horrifying and the humorous moments of the film, but wasn't in love with the movie, until the end. The last few minutes of the film, though happy and perhaps straining believability, really made the film for me. I also enjoyed the way some of the building's residents really helped April. I want to be the kind of person who would help someone in holiday distress.

The idea that sometimes people can put down their long held resentments and just be real humans who simply love, forgive, or at least tolerate each other, without pretense, bitterness or pain is very attractive to me. That's why the ending of the movie spoke to me.

My friends gave mixed reviews of "Lost in Translation". People either loved it or thought it was boring.

I fall firmly into the "loved it" camp.

Like Garden State the director and actors transcribed feelings I've had but couldn't necessarily articulate to the big screen.

The feeling of being someplace and feeling "lost" or being out of sync with everything around you was so intense in this movie. It's a feeling I've had on more than one occasion.

I just finished watching Garden State.

After thinking about the scene where "Large" fades into the wallpaper, I realized that one of my new Christmas shirts almost fades into the paint in my bedroom.

This movie truly moved me.

I've had the experience depicted in the movie where everyone appears to be moving around you.

I've had the experience of finding that one person in life who understands you for almost no discernible reason.

I've had the experience of feeling like I loved someone so much that life with the most meager, meanest existence possible, if shared with that person, would be just great.

And let's not forget, I just went back to Milwaukee and saw an old friend.

Seeing small pieces of my life depicted on the screen was both uncanny and cathartic. Now don't get the idea my mother is dead, depressed, or was in a wheelchair or that I've ever been prescribed or taken anti-depresants, rather I identify with the ideas and moods shown in the movie.

I've been listening to the soundtrack for a while. It's one of the best soundtracks I think I've ever heard. The songs comfortably fit the mood and sequences of the movie almost as well as they seem to fit my mood at present.

When I like something so much, be it a song, a book, a movie, or whatever I wonder if something must be wrong with me or it. I have that feeling about this movie.

Seeing this truly great movie makes me even more frustrated by all the truly bad movies I saw last year. Excepting the Lord of the Rings trilogy which is in a movie category all by itself, this is the best movie I've seen since "The Matrix."

I saw Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou last night with Jeannie. It was a very odd movie. If I hadn't see the Huckabee's movie so recently, I would say that Life Aquatic was one of the oddest movies I have seen in a long time.