2 hours of my life I'll never get back...
I'd heard good things about it, finally got around to watching it. And no. Not my cup of tea, not at all.
That said, most reviews disagree.
Link: Wiki on Paris, Texas
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Don't know how I ended up watching this, I suspect largely due to it's soundtrack.
Anyways, a depressed young "Largeman" returns home to attend his mother's funeral, only to confront the unresolved reasons he left in the first place and reunite with old school friends. Looking for all the world like a young David Duchovny, it's got a sort of Millennial Rom-Com feel to it, reminding me of John Cusack's "High Fidelity", or any of a number of similar films from a generation before.
Not bad, not great, merely amusing.
Starring Natalie Portman, Ian Holm and a young Zach Braff (who wrote and directed the film. He later died of Covid Complications in 2020!!!).
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This was a curious movie. Set in 1950, it seeks to (from the wiki):
The film's inspirations were varied: it was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, by early drafts of Anderson's There Will Be Blood, the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon, drunken Navy stories that Jason Robards had told to Anderson while filming Magnolia, and the life story of author John Steinbeck.
Starring Joquin Phoenix & Philip Seymour Hoffman - who turn in amazing performances (the acting & cinematography are first rate) - well, no spoilers. A curious film, about a relationship between two unlikely friends. Different from most of my other watching this has some weight.
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Found this downloaded on my phone, my repository of videos I have on my list.
So, this was fine, a character study of the eccentrics that make up the independent booksellers of New York. The bookstores, while I've never been, are after a pattern of places similar I've been, the proprietors, after my own heart, collectors and readers, watching them being interviewed I find it curious how people so different from myself can reveal themselves to be so similar, there's a point about 10 minutes and thirty seconds in I find one of them living in virtually the same squalor that I frequently (when landed) find myself in, you could swap me in and I wouldn't change a thing; the curios, maps, art...
And this, again and again, and you can see how people - however different they may appear in personality, the mind does shape the world without in a pattern that reflects itself.
Anyways, greatly enjoyed this, it was like spending time with people you know but simply haven't had the opportunity to meet.
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