The Weight of a Soul
Got a slight repreive from the heat last night and watched 21 Grams with Becky. I would say that this is the most depressing picture I've seen this year, aside from Requiem for a Dream (arguably the most depressing film ever made), and this is coming from a guy who revels in his large collection of depressing, fatalistic film. The performances are great and I really like the characterization of the primary players, but the storytelling is cross-cut so bizzarely at the beginning that you can hardly tell what's happening until a half-hour into the movie. The movie is quite visceral in it's storytelling, and it really grabs at you to see these people so destroyed by grief as they search for new ways to live through it. The quest seems quite personal - apparently, the director dedicated this film to his wife, who lost her unborn baby 2 days before he was due. Overall: a good montage of grief, survival and the karmic wheel at work.
Got a slight repreive from the heat last night and watched 21 Grams with Becky. I would say that this is the most depressing picture I've seen this year, aside from Requiem for a Dream (arguably the most depressing film ever made), and this is coming from a guy who revels in his large collection of depressing, fatalistic film. The performances are great and I really like the characterization of the primary players, but the storytelling is cross-cut so bizzarely at the beginning that you can hardly tell what's happening until a half-hour into the movie. The movie is quite visceral in it's storytelling, and it really grabs at you to see these people so destroyed by grief as they search for new ways to live through it. The quest seems quite personal - apparently, the director dedicated this film to his wife, who lost her unborn baby 2 days before he was due. Overall: a good montage of grief, survival and the karmic wheel at work.
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