We've been challenged again
It would seem like the challenges are coming from all directions these days. Recently, Bluez challenged us to watch "The Last King of Scotland".
While that's a worthy title for future consideration, both Scribe and I were not able to secure that one from our respective libraries simultaneously. I emailed her back and asked for a list of alternate choices. The list she came back with was good - I had not seen any of the films she suggested, but apparently Scribe had seen all of them but one.
The one Scribe-o-rama hasn't watched already happens to be the only title on the list I could find, and was one of the Scribester's preferred titles. Which means that...
...the next film to be reviewed on this very blog will be "21 Grams".
posted by Tim @ 09:26
12 Comments:
21 Grams? Man... good luck.
The chronology is fucked just for the sake of have a nonlinear story line. The emotion is all there and the individual performances are brilliant and don't come across as pretentious, but somehow the film as a whole does.
Hey man, maybe it's just me. But I can't bring myself to watch it again.
21 grams? I'm gonna guess this is a movie about drugs, but my other suspicion is that it's about a woman with anorexia. Haha? Okay, maybe not.
This director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu did the same thing with the movie "Amores Perros"<--a great film . I think you should give it a chance before you listen to hamish up there. Its received some great praise (2004 Academy Award®: Best Supporting Actor nominee: Benicio Del Toro
2004 Academy Award®: Best Actress nominee: Naomi Watts
2004 BAFTA®: Best Actor nominee: Benicio Del Toro
2004 BAFTA®: Best Actor nominee: Sean Penn
2004 BAFTA®: Best Actress nominee: Naomi Watts
Maybe the lack of linear narrative structure leaves one a bit disconcerted, but this is not a bad thing. The director refrains from manipulating us by setting the film on a course to raise our emotions at a certain point and hit us with the payoff. I think the ending is less important than the examination of these lives and the acting is tremendous. Is 21 grams lost at the moment of death is the weight of a person’s soul ? That is the question I want to see green and scribe answer in their own words. Go to it guys!!
LOL autumn, I just caught that about the anorexia....Naiomi watts is skinny but not THAT skinny!
hamish: thanks for commenting. I heard some good things about this movie, so we'll see if I have the same opinion as yourself.
autumn: whatever it's about, it looks interesting.
bluez: don't you worry, we'll give it a fair, nonobjective review, or at least I will.
Well I would have, but now we've got like fifty critics giving us their views before we've evenm watched it LOL
21 grams, BTW, the supposedly the amount of weight the human body loses when we die, leading many to speculate that it's the human soul.
Yes but is it the weight of the soul ? That is the question....
I don't really think it is. How can something intangible like the soul have weight?
Who knows? Makes for a fascinating premise though.
My soul has GOTS to weigh more than that!! Anyone wanna bet??
Maybe we could get on with the next movie if scribe would write his lousy review for **this** movie....
sheesh
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