We Love Movies – Video recommendation of the Week:
When I think about it, I realize that it could have all gone terribly wrong!
I know that Stephanie recently reviewed this film but I thought it was time to add my recommendation to hers.
I never doubt the power of a film to reestablish faith in my fellow human beings ……especially those human beings in the film. Film people are so fascinating. When they’re well written, they lead fascinating lives, they experience perfect fascinating romances, they have exciting and fascinating adventures, and – and this is very important – always say just the right things – fascinating. They have problems – they resolve problems. They have conflicts – they resolve conflicts. They sometimes die, but you can always restart the DVD …….and there they are again! The Kinks’ song says, “I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show.” Maybe they were onto something.
BUT ………when a film is NOT well written or directed or produced, it could easily all go terribly wrong.
I live in small town USA. It’s not really that small. It’s not small enough for everybody to know everybody else – but it IS small enough for a lot of people to know a lot of other people, plus there are little sub-communities of families and neighbors who are very close-knit. But I can only imagine an entire town, even a small one, pulling together the way people do in this week’s film, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL.
Now here’s where this review can all go terribly wrong.
