Friday, February 12, 2010
QUIET DESPERATION
Today's movie was Jim Jarmusch'
with Bill Murray.
When you have Jarmusch moving slowly and Murray being minimal there is a lot to see.
I appreciate this. The slow pace and rich locations make the film worth really, really watching. Seeing.
Murray gets a letter implying that he has a son born of one of the women that he has known and lived with.
He visits all of them to find out what, well, we are not sure. He certainly finds out more than he expected to or less.
He is aided and abetted by a wonderful neighbor, Jeffrey Wright, who urges him to go find out what happened to the women and to see if there are clues to the son's situation. Wright is the anti-Bill Murray. It is fun, and relevant, to see one who says "yes" to life and the other who, well, doesn't.
In a funny way, this is a road flick. Murray with his memories. And a dash of present reality in each case.
It is also a quest film.
We are not sure what Murray has found but I know what I got out of it.
At the end, Murray stands at a crossroads. Literally.
What now?
I liked it. The usual high quality Jarmusch' cinema (now that he can afford all the frills) and some great work by the women on the road.
Very nice.
I would gladly see this again. Maybe a Jarmusch' fest way in the future.
That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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