Sometimes I Pretend I Only Have 10 Seconds To Live..
Have you ever seen the movie "All The Real Girls?" It breaks my heart into a million tiny little pieces. I relate so much that it kills me. That's what really breaks you and fucks you up in life. Not huge tragedies, but little gray horrors. Little isolated feelings of loss or guilt or confusion or loneliness. This film really captures what it's like for me to be stuck in a late twenty-something heart that doesn't always work right.
So much of the time I feel like Hollywood gets it all wrong. Films make so many predictable choices to service plot that will eventually build to some fantastic resolution. Problem is, life doesn't usually offer fantastic resolutions. This film is about real life. What it is like to feel. It's about the sun rising over buildings, it's about the loss of innocence, it's about how circular and sad life can be, whether it is in a small milltown in North Carolina or any other bright or sleepy town in the world.
There's a certain time in your life where things don't patch together very easily. Where defintions don't have clear implications. Where everything, even good things, seem to hurt a little too much. There is a certain space in your life where you're finally too old to be cynical and too young to be sentimental. David Gordon Green made the film that captured it. He took the breath right out of my lungs. And it hurts. It hurts and it feels amazing.
Don't sleep,
BR
So much of the time I feel like Hollywood gets it all wrong. Films make so many predictable choices to service plot that will eventually build to some fantastic resolution. Problem is, life doesn't usually offer fantastic resolutions. This film is about real life. What it is like to feel. It's about the sun rising over buildings, it's about the loss of innocence, it's about how circular and sad life can be, whether it is in a small milltown in North Carolina or any other bright or sleepy town in the world.
There's a certain time in your life where things don't patch together very easily. Where defintions don't have clear implications. Where everything, even good things, seem to hurt a little too much. There is a certain space in your life where you're finally too old to be cynical and too young to be sentimental. David Gordon Green made the film that captured it. He took the breath right out of my lungs. And it hurts. It hurts and it feels amazing.
Don't sleep,
BR