30 Days of Film - Day Fourteen
Not much happened today. Picked up my new glasses. Oh, and watched my brother play football. And froze. Bloody cold. Just about warm now, two hours later.
• Day 14 - A movie that no one would expect you to love
Well... that depends on who you talk to. Some people are surprised that I like action movies, and other people are surprised that I like rom coms. But I think most people kind of know that by now so I'm going to pick a different genre. Which I have previously describes as "people stand around in rooms and talk about their feelings." Those kind of slow paced dramas where not all that much happens plot-wise but there is a lot of character development.
It's not the kind of film I like to watch often, but I do like them. I like Garden State (2004) and The Last Kiss (2006). Proof (2005) is *amazing* and almost makes me like Gwyneth Paltrow. But my pick is
Moonlight Mile (2002)
I love this film. It's just a lovely, intimate little film with an amazing cast. It has Jake Gyllenhaal, Dusting Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter (albeit briefly). The story is about a young man (Gyllanhaal) in the aftermath of his fiancée's tragic death (she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was shot). He is staying with his fiancée's parents (Hoffman and Sarandon) and the three of them band together to cope with the loss and the funeral. However, as the story unravels, you discover that he and his fiancée had broken up, and when she was killed she was on her way to tell her parents and call off the wedding. As they don't know this, he feels compelled to carry on the charade that they were deliriously happy, to go into business with her father as they had planned, in other words to be stuck with these people when all he wants to do is get away and move on. He meets a girl in the local bar and falls in love with her and struggles to find a way to tell his ex-future-in-laws the truth.
It is a really nice study of loss and grief and love and healing.
• Day 14 - A movie that no one would expect you to love
Well... that depends on who you talk to. Some people are surprised that I like action movies, and other people are surprised that I like rom coms. But I think most people kind of know that by now so I'm going to pick a different genre. Which I have previously describes as "people stand around in rooms and talk about their feelings." Those kind of slow paced dramas where not all that much happens plot-wise but there is a lot of character development.
It's not the kind of film I like to watch often, but I do like them. I like Garden State (2004) and The Last Kiss (2006). Proof (2005) is *amazing* and almost makes me like Gwyneth Paltrow. But my pick is
Moonlight Mile (2002)
I love this film. It's just a lovely, intimate little film with an amazing cast. It has Jake Gyllenhaal, Dusting Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter (albeit briefly). The story is about a young man (Gyllanhaal) in the aftermath of his fiancée's tragic death (she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was shot). He is staying with his fiancée's parents (Hoffman and Sarandon) and the three of them band together to cope with the loss and the funeral. However, as the story unravels, you discover that he and his fiancée had broken up, and when she was killed she was on her way to tell her parents and call off the wedding. As they don't know this, he feels compelled to carry on the charade that they were deliriously happy, to go into business with her father as they had planned, in other words to be stuck with these people when all he wants to do is get away and move on. He meets a girl in the local bar and falls in love with her and struggles to find a way to tell his ex-future-in-laws the truth.
It is a really nice study of loss and grief and love and healing.