The Waves
A very real family drama that deals with grief as it exists both before and after a tragic event. Very well written with fresh characters, strong acting and a wonderful music track. It’s a movie that’s deeply about all the characters - the way a family is.
Highly recommended.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
JoJo Rabbit - Film Review
“JoJo Rabbit”
A wonderfully inventive film. It made me think about the choices that young children make every day in their natural search for morality- and how that search becomes bewilderingly difficult in a time of war.
A wonderfully inventive film. It made me think about the choices that young children make every day in their natural search for morality- and how that search becomes bewilderingly difficult in a time of war.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon- Book Review
“The Wonder Boys” by Michael Chabon
This is a wild ride of a story about what ambition looks like in the bloom of youth and at the opening of old age. Set in academia, where promise shines and dulls with the advent of star students and waning of star professors, it tells a story as old as time. It’s a story about the abuse of time itself. While this shares a subgenre with “Goodbye, Mr Chips” and “The Paper Chase” it is about so much more than an old teacher and his unruly modern students. Chabon reaches well past the classroom to tell this story, fitting in 3/4 of a dead snake, Marilyn Monroe’s wedding jacket and old jazz clubs in Pittsburgh. And then there is the writing. In a very good novel you are lucky to get five fabulous sentences that motor the plot forward with lyricism and are invisibly dipped in meaning. Here the mic is dropped on about every third page. To wit, “...he likes to caution and amuse his young companions with case histories of the incurable disease that leads all good writers to suffer, inevitably, the quintessential fate of their characters.”
People say I am a harsh critic on literature. But that is only to remind everyone what stellar looks like.
This is a wild ride of a story about what ambition looks like in the bloom of youth and at the opening of old age. Set in academia, where promise shines and dulls with the advent of star students and waning of star professors, it tells a story as old as time. It’s a story about the abuse of time itself. While this shares a subgenre with “Goodbye, Mr Chips” and “The Paper Chase” it is about so much more than an old teacher and his unruly modern students. Chabon reaches well past the classroom to tell this story, fitting in 3/4 of a dead snake, Marilyn Monroe’s wedding jacket and old jazz clubs in Pittsburgh. And then there is the writing. In a very good novel you are lucky to get five fabulous sentences that motor the plot forward with lyricism and are invisibly dipped in meaning. Here the mic is dropped on about every third page. To wit, “...he likes to caution and amuse his young companions with case histories of the incurable disease that leads all good writers to suffer, inevitably, the quintessential fate of their characters.”
People say I am a harsh critic on literature. But that is only to remind everyone what stellar looks like.
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