Many of my friends devour music like it's essential as oxygen or water. Listening to stay alive.
Everyone has a hunger for something in their life, outside of or a substitute for someone they love.
In my life, it's books and magazines. I gorge myself on paper. More recently, however, I've been binging on movies, leaving my pile of unread books on the shelf, jilted.
The following is a list of films that left me feeling full.
Stay
Plot-o-rama: Shrink wants to save his enigmatic patient from committing suicide and enlists his mentally unbalanced girlfriend to help him.
Star-studded: Ewan McGregor (playing Sam Foster), Janeane Garofalo (playing Dr. Beth Legy) and Naomi Watts (playing Lila), Bob Hoskins (playing Dr. Leon)
Best scene: Conversations with the blind man
Dialogue:
Shrink: I've read your file.
Patient:
Well can I read your file?
Shrink:
Tell me why you're here.
Patient:
I thought you read the file.
Little Children
Plot-o-rama: American Beauty-esque. Better acted, broodier, haunting portrait of western suburbia and the dysfunction once you scratch away the surface.
Star-studded: Kate Winslet (playing Sarah), Jackie Earle Haley (playing Ronnie), Jennifer Connelly (playing Kathy)
Best scene: The night of Ronnie's blind date.
Dialogue preview:
Ronnie's mother: There, you look handsome. She won't be disappointed.
Ronnie: Yeah, wait till she hears about my criminal record.
eXistenZ
Plot-o-rama: David Cronenberg's surrealistic, metaphorically sexual tale that blurs the virtual world and the real one
Star-studded: Jude Law (playing Ted), Willem Dafoe (playing Gas) and indie actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (playing Allegra)
Best scene: Lunch at the Chinese restaurant on the Trout Farm
Dialogue preview:
Ted: We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose
rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or
even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by
forces that we don't understand.
Allegra: That sounds like my game, all right.
Ted:
That sounds like a game that's not gonna be easy to market.
Allegra:
But it's a game everybody's already playing.
Oscar winning moment: Watching Jude and Jennifer invade each other's bio-ports is like the squirmy, skin crawling feeling you get if you were to accidentally walk in on strangers at a party, who were naked and probing each other's assholes- slowly.
