Friday, May 18, 2007
RELATIONSHIP
"Sorrow is joy grown old".
That line tells the story of today's film
Two friends reunite and try to find their past connection.
Both are lefties; one has the NPR/Volvo thing down, the other still searches for 'answers'.
The film is beautiful to watch.
The sounds are also very important. The sounds of silence.
Unusual for a contemporary film.
I have lived out this stretch between two men who have lost their way from each other.
It is painful to watch the tension as, at the same time, we learn how this is a normal process of life.
Coming and going.
There are a lot of nice underlying themes here. There is some homoerotic tension; the straight man's bugaboo.
There is the Freudian split; id and superego.
There is nature versus 'civilization'.
It is all done effortlessly and quietly in only 75 minutes or so.
I love short long films.
It is a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: coming of age, culture, films
