Monday, March 27, 2006
Live and Let Die
Saturday I finally saw "The Sea Inside," a Spanish film from 2004 about a quadriplegic's 28-year quest to end his life. As directed by Spaniard Alejandro Amenabar, it's a very engaging, honest, and unpredictable movie, fairly free of clichés, social statements, and moralizing.. One shudders to think what Hollywood might have done with this material.
But it's lovely, poetic, scenic, and offers some amazing characters, ranging from a pregnant right-to-die crusader, to man's long-suffering farmer family, to his love for his lady lawyer, who herself is threatened by a degenerative disease, and finallly, there's a single mother/factory worker/radio DJ who takes a shine to our hero. There's lots going on here. Javier Bardem is spectacular, playing 20 years older and acting mostly with his head, including as a writing instrument (see picture). Not to be missed...
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