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The Visitor (2007)
One of the years best!
I always judge movies by how much I want to be where the film is and know the people in it. This is one of those films. I wanted to be friends with these people and know them and live with them. Truly a film I did not want to end. Just like the writer/director's last film, The Station Agent, this film is populated by people you want to know...relationships you wish you had...in a place you wish you lived. Like a lot of "indie" films, this one ends with as many questions as answers, but then isn't life like that? Even when we wish it wasn't? I was surprised by how the basic plot was similar to The Station Agent in that the main character is someone who is unemotional and just wants to be left alone, but people come into his life that just won't let him, and he opens up to life's possibilities.
Love Liza (2002)
don't see this movie. SPOILER ALERT!!!!
The most useless, depressing movie ever! No hero. No tension. No humor. There is no reason to watch this movie...ever. Hoffman is OK I guess, but his acting in this film ranges from catatonic to asleep. I don't mind depressing movies necessarily (Happiness, Weather Man for example are good ones) but this is just a waste of time. Kathy Bates is under-utilized, the landlord from The Big Lebowski is OK. I mean, a main character you don't like and don't care about? Why? SPOILER: the suicide note that you have been waiting for the whole movie is dumb, and the ending just leaves you wondering why. Why to the whole bloody thing!