I had postponed watching this movie for quite some time, either from merely borrowing it from someone, to postponing buying it, to postponing watching it after I actually bought the DVD last week. All I could tell that it was a movie about relationships, with a playboy character, played by Jude Law, at the centre.
I finally had time to watch it this morning. The movie features the song The Blower's Daughter, by Damien Rice, which is one of the current songs in the rage by a lot of people. The song itself, has much, much more to offer than most of it's pop counterparts, somehow slipping in between all lines of genre but not quite uncategorizable as well, and giving everybody something that obviously a lot of people can relate to: loving someone until it hurts. The song, although liked by almost everybody I know, cannot be dismissed as just a pop phenomenon, where most decidedly self-proclaimed "music lovers" can hate it because of its popularity. Something transcends it all and makes it a song for all to share, and leaving everybody contemplating on the simplicity of the song and how it collerates with their lives.
The movie itself, sort of offers something for everyone, where the story revolves around 4 characters and how the connections and relationships move about between them; at some points incomprehensible, at others stunningly real with many parallels with real life. The story does not offer you a hero or anti-hero to follow, all the characters are either likable or not. Some people hate the movie, some people love the movie, but the cast definitely has to be given a thumbs-up for their performances, engulfing us in their frustration, love, pain, reluctance, and undecidedness. The miracle of the movie is, you are pulled into the movie without actually liking or cheering on one of the characters; thus at the end of the movie, you are left with a small shock that you were pulled into the movie anyway.
The movie made me... miss being in love. Oh how I miss those days so.
I finally had time to watch it this morning. The movie features the song The Blower's Daughter, by Damien Rice, which is one of the current songs in the rage by a lot of people. The song itself, has much, much more to offer than most of it's pop counterparts, somehow slipping in between all lines of genre but not quite uncategorizable as well, and giving everybody something that obviously a lot of people can relate to: loving someone until it hurts. The song, although liked by almost everybody I know, cannot be dismissed as just a pop phenomenon, where most decidedly self-proclaimed "music lovers" can hate it because of its popularity. Something transcends it all and makes it a song for all to share, and leaving everybody contemplating on the simplicity of the song and how it collerates with their lives.
The movie itself, sort of offers something for everyone, where the story revolves around 4 characters and how the connections and relationships move about between them; at some points incomprehensible, at others stunningly real with many parallels with real life. The story does not offer you a hero or anti-hero to follow, all the characters are either likable or not. Some people hate the movie, some people love the movie, but the cast definitely has to be given a thumbs-up for their performances, engulfing us in their frustration, love, pain, reluctance, and undecidedness. The miracle of the movie is, you are pulled into the movie without actually liking or cheering on one of the characters; thus at the end of the movie, you are left with a small shock that you were pulled into the movie anyway.
The movie made me... miss being in love. Oh how I miss those days so.
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