MOVIES a la my favorite thing in the world
Back on it! Tonight I saw Crazy Rich Asians (with my family, in a movie theater called the Rave in Little Rock, Arkansas)... And man, I'm still very much in awe at the whole thing. It was basically the first movie I've seen that I've actually cried during in years, so that tells you something. Why this one... How would I know? Anyways, thoughts below.
So if anyone tells you, this movie can be fabulous, true, pedestrian, bright and over-the-top in all the right ways, they're not too far off. Sometimes you walk into a movie just to see what you expect, notes about the world, a mental check. The opening scene, for example. It's an English hotel, come on, the center of aristocratic white-people world, and in walks an asian family, tracking mud in the rain, and oh is it so perfect the way that the scene was shot. Sure, this probably doesn't happen in everyday life, but isn't it the fantasy of every young kid to see that hotel elevator open up, and learn that the hotel is being sold to their mom?! What is this but every underdog sports story ever, every sweet victory, every American dream? In many ways this movie touches core emotions like that. Okay, onto other random thoughts:
- the dress scene - chickens are bitches - go get 'em!! i really appreciate the fact that her one good friend from college and some other nice people that she met along the way (astrid and oliver) were all that she needed to stand up to the big, scary guest list. her friend - if a bit weird - is always there and welcoming... i'm not sure what they were going for with the rest of her family, though, especially her dad - perhaps also just "weird"? Maybe that's just me being too judgmental.
- the whole Astrid storyline! loved her from the moment she said hi to the little bunny. two women struggling with their own issues and affirming each other on and off the beach is something worth seeing. with Astrid I felt like i was reaching more into the conflict of being rich around someone who is not, and the personal tensions that would bring, more so than with Nick and Rachel (because Rachel would be the kind of person to be literally unaffected by the materiality and status of it all).
- that feel-good scene when Rachel talks with the revered lady of the family, the one everyone else avoids, about economics, of all things! What a beautiful stroke of luck, and it worked out perfectly!
- What else...
- which scene did i cry in? hah, guess
- oliver's hair - was it really that great? no idea, but somehow that stuck to memory, not as a visual but as a concept
- getting off the boat was a good choice
- there was one point where the soundtrack was in Spanish, and i appreciate that
ps. now i have to decide what my favorite thing in the world is
So if anyone tells you, this movie can be fabulous, true, pedestrian, bright and over-the-top in all the right ways, they're not too far off. Sometimes you walk into a movie just to see what you expect, notes about the world, a mental check. The opening scene, for example. It's an English hotel, come on, the center of aristocratic white-people world, and in walks an asian family, tracking mud in the rain, and oh is it so perfect the way that the scene was shot. Sure, this probably doesn't happen in everyday life, but isn't it the fantasy of every young kid to see that hotel elevator open up, and learn that the hotel is being sold to their mom?! What is this but every underdog sports story ever, every sweet victory, every American dream? In many ways this movie touches core emotions like that. Okay, onto other random thoughts:
- the dress scene - chickens are bitches - go get 'em!! i really appreciate the fact that her one good friend from college and some other nice people that she met along the way (astrid and oliver) were all that she needed to stand up to the big, scary guest list. her friend - if a bit weird - is always there and welcoming... i'm not sure what they were going for with the rest of her family, though, especially her dad - perhaps also just "weird"? Maybe that's just me being too judgmental.
- the whole Astrid storyline! loved her from the moment she said hi to the little bunny. two women struggling with their own issues and affirming each other on and off the beach is something worth seeing. with Astrid I felt like i was reaching more into the conflict of being rich around someone who is not, and the personal tensions that would bring, more so than with Nick and Rachel (because Rachel would be the kind of person to be literally unaffected by the materiality and status of it all).
- that feel-good scene when Rachel talks with the revered lady of the family, the one everyone else avoids, about economics, of all things! What a beautiful stroke of luck, and it worked out perfectly!
- What else...
- which scene did i cry in? hah, guess
- oliver's hair - was it really that great? no idea, but somehow that stuck to memory, not as a visual but as a concept
- getting off the boat was a good choice
- there was one point where the soundtrack was in Spanish, and i appreciate that
ps. now i have to decide what my favorite thing in the world is
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