Movie Marathon
Keep forgetting to write on here. Musn't forget a promise to one's self. Boo.
Anyway, recently, a friend of mine told me that Martin Freeman stars in a movie called Love Actually and that he was a pornstar in it. Naturally, this piqued my curiosity -and curiosity only, I swear and my brother can attest to this because he watched it with me- and I decided to download and watch it. I'd include a summary, plot, and whatever calls for a movie review but I can't do the movie much justice even if a did review it so I decided to just flail about it.
IT WAS WONDERFUL. Personally, I've heard of so-called feel good movies but I've never had one before. The concept was familiar to me but I never had that kind of feeling for a movie ever but then this came along and I simply loved it and felt better after watching it. Not that I was feeling down before the movie but it was a good movie.
Lost my train of thought on that one. Shouldn't have taken that tea break. BUT THE POINT. LOVE ACTUALLY, GOOD MOVIE. FEEL GOOD MOVIE.
The next movie I watched was Third Star. I bawled like a baby, I am not ashamed to admit. Well, a little but it was for a good reason. The movie itself is not exciting. It's very understated, very normal; no special effects, explosions. It's all plot and dialogue and people and life. Admittedly, I didn't watch the first few parts with much attention because I honestly didn't know what to expect and it didn't hold my attention -I have a short attention span. Tested and proved.- mostly because it was dialogue. They go somewhere and when I heard the initial reason why they were going, it was then that I started to listen and there were times in the movie that I wished it wasn't so compelling. I could never describe how much this movie made sense of everything, of life, of friends, of people in general, to me. It made me feel like I could relate to the characters despite never being in their position. You don't get that in a lot of movies but this one was absolutely stunning. The fact that there was nothing to deviate one's attention from the plot was overwhelming to say the least. It made the viewer's attention focus on nothing but the plot and the problems of the characters and it was done so wonderfully that it was-is-will be a joy to watch. Despite my promises right after the movie never to watch it again, because of the ending, I will because it is a way, its own feel good movie.
I've read a lot of books about feeling better about one's blessings and about going out and doing what you love, conquering the day and all that and none of it ever stuck because it never made much sense to change. This movie drove that point home and buried it deep into my core and even now, I still feel it. The fact that I'm taking measures to do what I've always wanted to achieve is nothing short of a miracle considering how much I didn't care about myself or what I did before.
I didn't mean to write that much but hopefully I didn't give anything away, plot-wise. Moral-wise, yes probably. I wanted to praise Benedict Cumberbatch though. He was excellent in the movie and it wasn't over the top or anything. It didn't even feel like he was acting. It felt like he was truly that person, that it was his life he was living and everything he did was justified. And I mean everything. If you watch the movie, you'll get what I mean. If you don't, that's sort of alright too. Benedict Cumberbatch is a really good actor, better than most of the current actors and I think he should win something for it but I've never been good at judging movies anyway. He was simply brilliant in it though, no doubt about it.
I have no idea how to end this entry so saying so might as well be good enough.