The Air I Breathe (2008)

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The Air I Breathe (2007)
by JJ79 in JJ79 Blog

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"The more I think about it, the more "The Air I Breathe" is the marriage of Oscar-winner "Crash" and the radio program "This American Life." From the former, we take individual stories and use each of the four main characters to impact someone else. They don´t know each other, generally speaking, while one through line connects them all: Andy Garcia´s Fingers. "This American Life" comes into play since each vignette is a meditation on a theme, a story we normally wouldn´t associate with that theme. For instance, we would generally think of Happiness as being in love, wealthy or healthy. Not so for the Forest Whitaker character. He wants out of his day to day monotony whatever the cost. Then there´s Pleasure, brilliantly played by Brendan Fraser. His ideal, similar to Happiness, isn´t independent wealth or status. It´s simply to not know what is coming next. While Sorrow´s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) story of a pop diva focuses on the a standard ... " [More]

Air I Breathe A Little Stale
by TheReeler in The Reeler on Spout

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"Forest Whitaker and friend in Jieho Lee's The Air I Breathe By Eric Kohn A horrifying revelation about mediocrity hit me upon realizing the similarities between Tribeca’s obligatory star-studded faux indie The Air I Breathe and Paul Haggis’ detestable Crash: People actually like it. Stories that play loosely with human tragedy and toy with contrivances of fate and coincidence attract unwarranted praise like flypaper. It doesn’t hurt that both movies are populated with droves of pretty faces (all of them in anguish), and probably not a coincidence that they share Brendan Fraser (he seems to get increasingly goofy when he tries to play it straight). Among the other familiar names: Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Andy Garcia. All talented performers in their own right, they do their best with the lackluster material, and it’s not entirely bad, just awkwardly redundant until its final nosedive in the last five minutes. The basic premise finds several charac ... " [More]

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