Movie 640 – Fight Club
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Fight Club
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Movie 639 – Where the Wild Things Are
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Where the Wild Things Are
November 29, 2011
Where the Wild Things Are
This movie is not technically one of our favorite comfort films, which I mentioned yesterday will make up the last week of our project. I’ve only actually seen it once before tonight, when I saw it in the theater. I was, however, astonished then by this peculiar masterpiece, and continue to be impressed by it today as we watch it again.
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Movie 638 – The Shawshank Redemption
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The Shawshank Redemption
November 28, 2011
The Shawshank Redemption
As we approach the last week of our movie a day project Amanda and I have a few films that we have saved against a day when we needed a really good movie to lift our spirits. A last handful of comfort movies. The absolute favorites out of all the movies we have in our entire collection. So tonight we begin our greatest hits parade (with a couple exceptions in the coming week.)
This movie is a great way to start that last week. It is and exquisite, perfect, soulful and beautiful film. It’s a case where plot, script, casting and direction merge perfectly into something astonishing and unparalleled.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
November 27, 2011
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Movie 636 – American Beauty
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American Beauty
November 26, 2011
American Beauty
It’s been about a decade since I last watched this movie. The result is that now I I am three years away from the stated age of Kevin Spacey’s quintessential middle aged failure Lester Burnham. One of the major themes of this movie is Lester’s midlife crisis and dissatisfaction with his life. It is a little strange thinking that I’m at that point in my life now where people start to look back on their lives and see what they’ve made of them, or haven’t made. It’s a little disorienting to think of myself in those terms.
This is a movie about broken people finding the courage to take their lives into their own hands. Just about every character in the film faces a crisis and discovers a way to break the cycle that imprisons them. For some of them it works out okay. For some of them less so.
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