If you are in the mood for a thinking movie, try Another Year with Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent. The acting is marvelous, and the themes are timeless. It's slllllooooooowwwww. It's all dialogue and very little action.
There is language, though, and to watch it you'd think that everyone just drinks all the time. (Which is my complaint about the book The Girl on the Train which I can't and don't recommend. To read it, you'd think everyone is drunk all the time, lying about something, and being unfaithful to their spouse. Pretty dreary.)
But if you are a thinker for this movie, and can see drinking as a method to escape reality and a symbol of loneliness and desperation, then you can think your way out of the drinking scenes.
I've mentioned before that if you had a core group of smart people who didn't have time to read a whole novel but wanted fodder for a good discussion, a movie could do that.
This movie could do that. I'd actually like to discuss the themes with someone because I've been thinking about them all day. On topics like aging and loneliness and grief. Personal responsibility and the boundaries of friends/family. When is helping helping and when does it enable?
Ruth Sheen is marvelous. I've never seen her better than in this movie.
Anyone?
No comments:
Post a Comment