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The Good Fight: Day 485 (2018)
Kafka would be proud
The encirclement of Jay by ICE agents is all too relevant to too many people in America. The powerlessness of his situation and the lengths that his law firm has to go to get him legal status has tones of Josef Kafka's "The Trial". Well done.
I only wish I knew what the tune that Jay whistles at the end of the episode. I should but I don't.
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Probably a film that needs some distance from 9/11....
Stumbled on this film on Indieplex and was amazed at the reaction of people to the film, saying that it is the "Worst Movie Ever". Not by a long shot.
The film works at some curious levels. It is a send-up of movies that have a plot that comes together at the end. If you are looking for resolution, go see a formula movie. There are five independent stories with a common setting, New York. The stories, like our lives, may only have just that much in common. The stories all are threaded and we are left to believe that the stories have this common "unrevealed" meaning. The teasers to 9/11 (the sirens in the city, the plane flying over in all the stories, several of the characters getting into an elevator together, etc.) are just to make you think that the story is really about 9/11. It is about living our lives.
For me, the best line was the Councilman at the civic meeting where he is running for office and he says "The Mayor and Governor want you to be scared. But I, for one, will not be scared".... to very polite applause and uncontrolled laughter by Dick Lavilla's character. I think I understand what Jerry was laughing at.
The Tree of Life (2011)
Self-indulgent, trite, and in bad need of an editor.
We were quite disappointed by the Tree given the ratings it had been getting. The more we discussed this film, the more disappointed we got. The disjointed nature of the revealing of the tale left us making up a plot line between the children, their parents, their neighbors and all the people who ended walking on the beach at the end. That metaphor is indicative of the film in general "Hit me right here, son, come on, hit me right here. Come on, boy, hit me" At the end we were just disappointed that the raptors were not all raptured up at the end of time so that when all those people were on the beach, we could have had real fun seeing the raptors chasing them down.