I would like to post a short movie review each week. There are three reasons for me to do this:
First, it will be mostly for myself to keep up with writing and stimulating my own brain.
Second, this will allow me to share my thoughts about current films with family and friends.
Third, (this is the longest reason) I heard an interview the other day on NPR about this guy who works for some mainstream magazine who has reverted to using word processors to do all of his typing. No internet distractions, no flipping through MP3s, just typing what is in his mind. He complained that computers may be making is more knowledgable, in a general way, but they do anything but promote original thought. Think about it, when you're online viewing all of this information, you are getting other people's thoughts and opinions, not forming your own. You go see a movie, then come home and read 30 different responses the the film. You hear a news story on your evening news, then check out what the bloggers have to say. Have we lost some of our ablity to formulate our own independent opinions? So the third reason for this blog is to participate in the dumbing-down of the masses. After you see your next movie, come here first. Turn the radio up all the way as you leave the theater, hum the last song you heard as your computer boots-up, don't think about that movie until I tell you what to think. No, that's not a good reason, maybe I just have two reasons for this blog.
Walk The Line had some great music. The film unfolded just as an autobiography should. Chronological, selective, from the main character's perspective (in retrospect). I liked that. When Cash wrote about himself he knew what he thought was important, and that is what this film found to be important. No overbearing direction in this movie, nor was there overacting. Like I said, a movie about great music and some people who God blessed with the gift of creating it.
