"i'm fine."
I have been sitting here, looking at the computer screen for a couple of minutes, trying to think of what to say about Elizabethtown. I saw the movie last night with a couple of friends, and to tell you the truth, I wasn't expecting that it would be a good movie. I am not a huge fan of either Kirsten Dunst or Orlando Bloom, but I do like most of Cameron Crowe's films. I almost didn't see the movie, because I read a couple of reviews that gave the movie one star, but I am glad that take that one star to heart. The movie itself is not perfect, mostly due to certain points where the pacing becomes slow, but it is one of the best movies I have seen in a while. Many may criticize me for liking the movie as much as I did, but I don't care about people's criticism for me or the movie.
In the beginning of the movie we were introduced to a young man named Drew, who was a hot-shot shoe designer, and subsequently cost his company millions by a shoe of his own design. One of the things I noticed was how, in the flashback scenes at the company party, his boyish happiness reminded me of Tom Cruise's character in Jerry Maguire. After the shoe fiasco, Drew learns of his father's death and leaves to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to say goodbye one last time. Along the way, he meets some interesting characters, one of whom is Claire. Since I have given you a small synopsis of the movie, will now entreat you to what I think about certain things in the movie.
To begin, the music in the movie, made the movie flow. This is the South's answer to the Garden State soundtrack. Artists like Tom Petty, Patty Griffin, Wheat, the Hollies, and the Hombres make up a part of the soundtack and ultimately make the movie seem more like an enjoyable roadtrip (with windows rolled down, of course). The side story about Drew and his dead father, and making a connection with those people who knew him well, was a little distracting from what I thought was the main attraction of the film (the girl), but the movie wasn't just a love story. It was also about this young man, trying to recall memories of a father that he didn't know too well.
But the love story itself gets its own paragraph. This, in my mind, was the plat du jour of the entire course. In most flicks where the guy gets the girl in the end, you can't really see similarities with most of the characters. I am talking about movies like, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Sleepless in Seattle, Ever After or any other movie that confuses reality with fiction. In one scene, Drew and Claire talked on the phone for hours, making conversation about anything and everything, and then deciding to meet up and watch the sunrise. The relationship between the two of them was verging on something more than a friendship, but they were both hesitant. They both had things holding them back, and you find yourself hoping that even though they proclaimed themselves friends, there would be that chance that they would get together in the end. I'm not going to say what happens in the end, but I ask that you go see the movie (yes, even you coffeehouse misanthropes) and see for yourself.
-luke
posted by brodie @ 11:36 AM
1 Comments:
That was a really good movie. The more I think about it, the more I like it. Gonna have to see that one again.
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