21 Grams
Meant to get some kind of sleep tonight. Instead squandered the night watching 21 Grams. Well, not squandered. I just should have slept instead. The movie is damn fine. The emotional equivalent of getting kicked, beaten and punched to a bloody pulp and being left for dead, but before you pass out you note a pretty little flower poking out of the hard ground. Benicio del Toro is goddamn brilliant.
A little of it feels rehashed from Alejandro González Iñárritu's other horribly wonderful movie, Amores Perros - a tragic car crash that changes everything, but this is one is a titch more hopeful. If nothing else it reminded me that things could always be much, much worse.
Just in time for checking Yahoo! headlines and seeing a report of two deadly helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. There isn't anything for it but to wait. There's no way to know if my brother was there until they call or he writes to me or my parents. But someone stateside is going to wake up to a profoundly awful day. I can only pray for mercy.
Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God,...
A little of it feels rehashed from Alejandro González Iñárritu's other horribly wonderful movie, Amores Perros - a tragic car crash that changes everything, but this is one is a titch more hopeful. If nothing else it reminded me that things could always be much, much worse.
Just in time for checking Yahoo! headlines and seeing a report of two deadly helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. There isn't anything for it but to wait. There's no way to know if my brother was there until they call or he writes to me or my parents. But someone stateside is going to wake up to a profoundly awful day. I can only pray for mercy.
Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God, Please God, oh God,...