Comments | evwhore: Turkey Day Travel

evwhore

Turkey Day Travel

Nov 21, 2007 12:25

My flight to the east coast is delayed, so I've fired up the laptop[1]. Traffic was relatively light, and I made it to the airport with no issues (in stark contrast to a couple years ago). Security line was moderately long, but they had 4 lanes open so it moved pretty quickly and I would've had plenty of time to spare even without the delay ( Read more... )

travel, movies, elijah wood, family

Comments 6

fich November 21 2007, 21:04:38 UTC

No A Christmas Story?

loser_variable November 22 2007, 01:30:57 UTC

Definitely want A Christmas Story. Once a year.

evwhore November 22 2007, 05:32:16 UTC

I think I've only seen it once, a long time ago -- will have to give it a short and maybe work it into the rotation.

gunga_galunga November 21 2007, 21:06:05 UTC

I'll have to check out Avalon, since I've never seen it. I have a couple of similar movies that I always watch on my way back to Indiana. Generally, it's either Hoosiers or Breaking Away[1 ( ... )

luckylefty November 22 2007, 17:34:49 UTC

I liked Avalon a lot, but there's one thing that bothered me about it.

This is clearly the sort of story that is strongly based on one's own experiences of one's family growing up. And I assume with a name like Levinson that Barry is Jewish. And culturally, the family in Avalon seems to me very much like a Jewish family. And in that time period, it would be quite anomalous for no-one in the family to have religion be important in their lives.

So the movie feels sort of like "Judaism is box-office poison, so here's a memoir of what my family would have been like if religion didn't exist".

evwhore November 22 2007, 18:28:32 UTC

I think wiki/imdb confirm all of your hunches. I read somewhere (forget which source, maybe a user comment) that the only overt mention of a Jewish tradition is the "not supposed to name him after the living." Which is another log on the "erosion of family/cultural traditions" fire, although the impression is that Sam realizes it's a tribute to him, so...

I've also wondered about the scene at the lake: "[The kids] could be at the country club and they want to come here instead?" "They don't like it at the country club." "Well, they'd better learn to like it because the owner of the lake is going to sell it -- they want to turn this into houses."

But I wouldn't imagine, in that day and age, that they'd've been able to get into the country club anyway.