Friday, April 25, 2008
T for Transformative
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1. Four Words That Encapsule: 'Chance Meeting Alters Life'
2. Haiku: (5/7/5)
'Birth, love, location,
accidents of fate and choice;
World, just let them be!'
'We're all stuck in ruts
varied in extent and form;
Fly over cuckoo!'
3. Oblique Commentary: For McCarthy, a worthy follow-up to 2005's 'The Station Agent.' For Jenkins, known to many as Six Feet Under's late patriarch Nathaniel Fisher, a show of versatility, in which accent, posture, and body language make you forget Fisher pretty quickly.
4. Insight: McCarthy's on-location filming is dead-on, particularly Washington Square Park musicians and the dubious downscale 'detention facility' in deepest Queens. Without being heavy-handed or biased, McCarthy shows us the inane, impersonal, and ultimately cruel way in which detainees are 'handled.' (Of course, this is outsourced - privatization redux).
5. Link: Metacritic summary of reviews. Graded 80 by 23 reviewers, this is an A-/B+ and already among the year's better-received films.
Here's the trailer, judge for yourself:
Cartoon du Jour:
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