i finally watched ‘little miss sunshine’ at the persistence of a friend of mine. she shoved both ‘little miss sunshine’ and ‘love actually’ at me…without backing down, so i gave in.
i actually grew enormously fond of steve carell in this film…more so than him in ‘the 40 year old virgin,’ gee, i wonder why? the little girl (abigail breslin) is so freakin’ adorable and i do love the cinematography of a bright yellow vw bus moving along under a vivid blue sky. and toni collette is most definitely an underrated talent and has been for a long time. i really liked the silent pilot (paul dano)…especially when he actually decided to speak. all that said, i didn’t fall in love with the film and may be too harsh a critic on this movie and may have to watch it again sometime. i just can’t say i went crazy for it like everybody else seems to have. but one point that hit me…and is actually perfect to my state of mind today is the all familiar life/role of artists in our society. i have come to the belief that to be an effective artist certain aspects of your life just have to suck. they have to be brooding and silent. they have to be hard and grueling and emotional. they have to allow you to feel like the last person on earth with a heart/soul. they have to push you…way way down. we have to live on this brink of torture…tiptoe the line a few good times to be able to capture everything correctly. if we fast forward to all the good times, heck, if we want to fast forward to all the good times….heck…if i would have fast forwarded to all the good times, most of all that i do, artistically would never come to fruition.
so on today…while my computer is pushing out a wild montage of indie drown-down yet undersided rock gems from the likes of the cure, the long blondes, the futureheads, the killers, i say viva la pain la agony la depression. and if up to it, go do something creative…and watch it inspire somebody else. kinda strange how that works, eh?
I did love Little Miss Sunshine, you did a good job reviewing it too
But…you left out my favorite character Alan Arkin who I’ve always found incredibly sexy haha-I know that sounds weird. I think it goes back to his younger days in Wait Until Dark, even though he was a horrible character, I still found something strangely attractive about him.
I hope this revelation doesn’t get me banned from your blog.
I like the word brooding too-I do a lot of that.
hahaha…you heart the arkin-man? i could/would not ban you from keeping my blog brooklyn cool…are you kidding me?!??!?!?!
arkin was cool in ’sunshine’ it would’ve been cool but less funny if he would have stuck around. wouldn’t have made the movie as interesting though. what a ’superfreak.’ sorry for the pun. thanks hismuse.
Thanks my dear-glad to hear you’re so open minded. I do like my share of freaks lol and after I wrote that comment to you I saw him in Catch 22, yep he still pushes my buttons. I just want to squeeze him.