Saturday, May 17, 2008
A ROAD LESS TRAVELED
Today's movie was Sean Penn's
It is a road picture. With a difference.
First, it is a true story and has a feeling about it that separates it from a fantasy production. Most road pics stretch reality beyond belief.
Second, it has a terminus. You know how it will end before it starts.
That helps us be watchful from the beginning.
I was not mystified why this wonderful young man took the turn in his road. Naively and without good judgment and also intentionally and with some justification. No doubt he was a fucked up dude with a certain inner wisdom to the fucked uppedness.
This is a gorgeous film and that includes the wonderful actors who make the thing work. Hal Holbrook is priceless. Penn gives us lots to ooh and aah about.
Young Judd Hersh is so real that it is almost a documentary. We are with him even in his particular kind of craziness.
It is fun in a personal way when it shows my desert areas Slab City, the Salton Sea and even the Palm Springs Tramway. We see the wind farm just north of town and the 10.
I liked this movie very much and want to see it again. That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.
Read the last paragraph of the Ebert review at the link. It is a good connection. I think that I have known a boy like this as well. Many more than one.
