Breathe
I bit the insides of my mouth the whole time I was watching this film. Not just because it was cold in the theatre (it was) but because I was afraid something was going to go dreadfully wrong. Either Gillespie was going to veer in the direction of just plain dirty (there is a life-sized doll in the cast, complete with orfaces) or just plain mean (Lars, the character who orders the doll is a bit touched, one might say.) But he didn't and I thought Gillespie maneuvered a fine line of staying true to the characters and small-town setting without resorting to the sentimental--or the dirty and mean. Highly recommended--I loved it.
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Monday, September 15, 2008 3:08 AM
i had the same reaction watching the film, except that i couldn't believe that ryan gosling and emily mortimer would get involved in a project that went wrong with an inflatable doll. and they didn't, so i really enjoyed the movie.
and speaking of cold theatres, my spouse and i when living in los alamos went to the movies every week because there wasn't anything else to do in town. one saturday we went to see the forbin project, which wasn't bad, except that the heat was out and there was a real cold snap and it was way below freezing in there, with everybody's breath rising like smoke toward the ceiling.