Saturday, April 3, 2010

Adam


I just wanted to suggest one of my all-time favorite movies. It's a sundance film festival feature and won the Alfred P. Sloan prize if you're on the edge on whether I have good taste in films or not. It's quite alright...there really are quite a few awful movies that I enjoy.

It's called Adam. (Plus Hugh Dancy is the leading role). It's one of those beautiful, touching, and emotion invoking movies.

I certainly don't want to explain it to you...because I think one of the reasons I found it so wonderful was that I had no idea what it was going to be about. It's such an interesting idea to try....You just pick a movie based on the cover...or you show up at someone's house when they tell you they're watching movies...and you don't ask a million questions about the movie...(The trick to being successful here...stop watching so much tv!!- you will greatly reduce the number of movie previews you view) and then you watch it. it's simple. no expectations. no preconceived notions.

I'm really selective about which movies I like. Yes, some are awful but I maybe have less than ten movies that I would suggest that someone else watch. I think half the time I dislike movies because they weren't what I thought they were going to be. It's kind of similar to the notion that movies rarely do books justice.

P.S. I think that if you really enjoyed 500 days of summer...you'd also enjoy this movie. well it all depends on why you liked 500 days of summer.

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