Cosmopolis

What a beautiful movie. The dialogue and cinematography make for a hypnotic combination. The characters speak as though they are members of two societies—one that you want to live in, and one that you are afraid you already do. This movie is not necessarily accessible, but is poses funny and fascinating questions about wealth, technology, politics, time, power, and more. Pattinson is great.

Also, I never thought I would watch the hunky vampire from Twilight get a rectal exam in a limousine while lecturing an employee on her financial and sexual acumen.

Grace and Law, Sing Along!

Everybody started freaking out about Les Miserables, and I didn't get it. When Hathaway and Jackman started winning awards for the their performance in it, I didn't get it. Then I saw the movie.
Now I get it.


I mean, good God, just look at this image...

...and try not to get emotional.

I was never big on musicals (though I'll never forget the first DVD I ever purchased), but damn, Victor Hugo knew what he was doing. The treatment of Grace is incredible: Javer was a formidable villain, a powerful picture of the attraction and ultimate futility of the Law, and Russell Crowe was not nearly as poor a singer as I was led to believe.

I think everyone on earth can relate, in some degree, to Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption that lasts a lifetime. Are we ever free from our sketchy past? How many good deeds are required to absolve ourselves? I mean, if I told you this guy could sing like an angel possessed, you would laugh, right?