Was I going to like this movie as much on second viewing as I did on the first?* It’s still one of the most realistic depictions of a relationship I’ve ever seen and both Zooey Deschanel and Paul Schneider are perfect (even though they are too old to play their characters). Also, the angry clowning at the hospital is still one of the best mother-son interactions I’ve ever seen captured on film.
Cost: $4.00
Where watched: PSU Cinema
* Yes, it turns out, I was. And it looked great on a big screen.
If I were a PSU student, I could attend you for free. I’m not, but it’s only $4.00 and there is free popcorn. You show an eclectic mix of movies, and I wish I visited you more. Next week, for instance, will be Singing in the Rain.
Oh my god, guys, this is an awesome strong-female-character movie and it also has a subplot featuring a cat!* I feel the need to point out it’s Sci-Fi tense, not really scary, because if you are like me, you are more apt to watch sci-fi tense.** I also really enjoyed seeing 1970s view of space, and how our views have changed.***
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home
*You, of course, probably know this as the movie came out in 1979 and is almost as old as me, but I just watched it and thus am just now understanding how good it is.
**But yes, I know that you’ve probably already seen it, because see above, but still! There are probably five other people who haven’t seen it yet and I feel I must convince them.
***Smoking! Would not at all happen today. Also, I was distracted because now that whole ship would have closed-circuit cameras, but they hadn’t yet figured that out about the future. I found myself wondering how one would ratchet up tension today given the closed circuit cameras. I guess you could go the easy route–cameras suddenly don’t work!
New feature. Once per month, I will feature a song that is “of the moment” for me. Usually because I have discovered it and can’t stop playing it repeatedly on YouTube. Because I never buy any music, (and that is very wrong) I will then purchase that song.
This song popped up on Pandora the same night I watched the movie Brooklyn. Brooklyn is an incredible movie and perfect in many ways, but I left with the feeling of “I will never be that young ever again.” It’s a feeling I’ve had intermittently this year, especially this summer. I feel it deeply, while at the same time understanding its ridiculousness. My twenties were in many ways not that great and I would prefer not to return to them. But some part of me longs to be that age again. Overlaid with this internal struggle, is my future 80-year-old self saying, “You thought 40 was old? Try being an octogenarian!”
And then this song played and the chorus caught me:
Yeah, those will be the days that I’ll be missing
When I’m old and when I’m grey and when I stop working
I hope that I can say
When all my days are done
We were just having fun
It’s a good song, and one I’d like to work into my song repertoire. Because eventually I’m going to have a songbook of songs I can play and sing. You know. Someday.
The video is classic “band on the road”. The band seems to have an impossibly good looking lead singer–the kind of guy who spells trouble for the girls and trouble for the band. I wish all of them well.
