On The Film My Architect
I am in the middle of watching My Architect: A Son's Journey. It is remarkable. Don't take my watching it in spurts as a reflection of the movie, it's not her - it's me. One of the people interviewed (one of the many pluses of this film is that it doesn't have the typical close up talking heads, but shuffles things around and plays with suspense) says that it's tempting to say that it's the shame that the architect that the movie is about was X or Y or Z. Richard Saul Wurman says that the way life works is that all the given pieces of our life experiences, including those that seem blatantly negative, come together to bring out the positive of who we are. As he puts it regarding seeming bad draws in the departments of both nature and nurture, "We're made by those things." What an important truth to take to heart.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 12:38 PM
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As per your suggestion, I recently watched Rachel Getting Married. It was excellent, and Anne Hathaway was spectacular in her role. Your suggestion came in the context of our discussion regarding Debra Winger. She was good, certainly better than in Forget Paris, but I wasn't blown away.
This made me smile (the end part). I didn't know it was her till after I saw it. I felt the acting was strng all around. I think that character was pivotal (sp?) to the story and was impressed. But Bill Irwin and Anne Hathaway were great too. Someone complained to me about the shaky camera, but I think there was a point to that. Strong movie. Thanks for the comment!
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I didn't think the shaky cam was too bad. But to be honest, I'm kind of surprised I liked the movie as much as I did. It's just a bit too precious, filled with anti-stereotypical stereotypes (i.e. hipsters), a racially mixed marriage obligatory in sensitive films of this sort, and other just-so stuff I wouldn't usually enjoy. But the core story - the pain of the Hathaway character, the family conflict, the loss of the brother - was done so well and genuinely and movingly, that I ended up really liking it in spite of myself. I also liked it b/c with all it's hipsterish tone, there's a lot of God in the movie. Surprisingly so.
Well put. I agree.
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