Dear Diary,

It's been a while since I've written to you...but tonight I felt compelled.

I was just watching the Daily Show. The guest was Tim Robbins. He was promoting the movie he's in - City of Ember. He casually remarked that it was about "the human spirit". Ugh. This stupid little thing set me off. They showed a clip and I just couldn't believe that he related this obvious and simple film about common people overcoming evil to something so complex as the human spirit. I don't even have to see it to know what is going to happen and the obvious metaphors about the environment and bla bla bla.

I felt so strongly because yesterday I watched SILENT LIGHT, the Mexican film about a Mennonite farmer who questions his faith when he falls in love with a woman who is not his wife. It's so gorgeously filmed, acted, and the ending is handled so incredibly well that I can't imagine the over-blown crap that Tim Robbins is promoting could in any way relate to my human spirit and I find it insulting that he could be so pretentious to boil down the human race like that.

Anyway, watch Silent Light - it's quiet and downtempo but so great.

Labels: EW, FILM

POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 10/07/2008 -

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