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Wacky downer

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Winter Passing (2004)

I'm not much for wacky downer films...as this film is aptly tagged. I just don't connect with cocaine snorting, mentally unstable guitar playing, extremely proper cheery, alcoholic writer type people...but thats just me. I like to connect to a movie and relate it to my own life. This movie didn't do it for me. Instead I felt like I was just watching wacky people living sort of a messed up life that didn't seem realistic in the least to me.

That said, there were a few things I liked. I laughed a few times at Corbit. His character was a little too weird - he may as well have been wearing is Elf outfit, but he was still funny. I liked the music too. I felt like the music blended well with the movie - it was a beautiful movie to listen to - and the character's voices were soothing and unique to listen to also.

Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 11:10 AM by PammyK | with comments off

Nature and History

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The New World (2006)

What I liked about this movie was how it made me think about nature and history. After the movie was done we talked about what it would be like to arrive in a new land and try to settle there - and how strange it would be to find people different from you living there. We also talked about nature and how different the Indians used the land compared to the English people. It made us really aware of how much we struggle with nature rather than work with it.

What I didn't like about this movie was that it was very slow moving. My sister fell asleep half way through and then she woke up and left the room to go sleep somewhere else. Then towards the end of the movie my dad left the room and didn't bother coming back to watch the end - it just didn't hold their attention. I also felt like the music could have been better, I kept waiting for a new more grand part of the song, but it seemed to stay at the same excitement level and the same melody. And also, I disliked that toward the end nothing bad happened anymore and it was just a romance story - what happened to the Indians? What was going on in the English settlement? There was so much struggle in settling and struggle between people earlier in the movie, and then that just disappeared and we were only watching Rebecca fall in love with John Rolfe.

Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 10:09 AM by PammyK | with 2 comments

Resilience

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Days of Heaven (1978)

This movie didn't leave me feeling sad, confused or hopeful - but I wish it would have. Those feelings would have at least had closure. Instead it left me thinking about starting over in life alone...as a different person. It made me think about what my life would turn into if all of my friends and relations died or were missing - would I be able to forget my previous life? Would I be able to move on as a person similar to the one I was before? It made me think about an article I had just read about a lady whose husband beat her and then murdered their two kids, and then how she remarried and had two more kids. It made me think about the resilience of humans and how people just keep living and move on.

Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 3:38 PM by PammyK | with comments off