"Broken Flowers"
Last Friday I saw the new Bill Murray movie "Broken Flowers". THe plot of the movie is essentially this: he recieves an anonymous letter telling him that he has a 19 year old son that he never knew about that may come looking for him. He eventually (with the coaxing of a curious neighbor) makes a list of the four women alive that he slept with twenty years ago and takes a trip to search for clues as to which one of them sent the letter. It is not giving anything away to say that it is never resolved who sent the letter.THis movie is not about that- it is not a mystery movie (as a movie reviewer I read writes, "it is a movie about self-discovery"). THe visits give us clues about who this man (comedically named "Don Johnston" (there are the inevitable Don Johnson jokes) really is.
I loved the movie. Rob, however, did not appreciate it as much as I. His main criticism, with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that Bill Murray's character in this movie is much like his character in "Lost in Translation". However, I do not see this as a problem. I think that emotional isolation, and actual isolation, is a concept worthexploring in depth.
I loved the movie. Rob, however, did not appreciate it as much as I. His main criticism, with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that Bill Murray's character in this movie is much like his character in "Lost in Translation". However, I do not see this as a problem. I think that emotional isolation, and actual isolation, is a concept worthexploring in depth.