Friday, July 6, 2007

Bobby - Robert F 'Bobby' Kennedy

In this totally fictional story written and directed by Estevez, Bobby takes us back to the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. It’s the day of the California Democratic Party Primary, and a win by Kennedy could make his bid to be the party’s presidential nominee a reality. As the day goes on, we see all of the people who are in the hotel and take a look at this small slice of their life. Though the writer directer will be, and is being, criticised for making fictional characters around a real point in history, the last fifteen minutes of the movie are shocking, moving, amazing filmmaking that sticks with you long after you walk out of the theater. Despite all of the dreck that comes before it, Bobby excels as we see an extremely detailed recreation of the assassination, and closes with a moving end credits sequence that features images of Kennedy throughout the years.

Little Miss Sunshine: My Latest Favourite

Little Miss Sunshine is one of those rare movies that brilliantly mixes laughter and heartache to engross you in every obstacle the characters face on this arduous journey down the road and through life. The writer writes brilliant arguments between the characters that keep the story moving forward, reveal information about them that the audience needs to know and throws in a surprise ending that makes sense, even if you never saw it coming. And the actors' brilliant performances make Little Miss Sunshine worth seeing. Almost all of them say more with their faces than words could ever express, and engage in an actor's dance we can all appreciate. It's the kind of all encompassing performance I never expected. Without giving away much, I dateline this movie as one of the better movies I watched since 'Everything is Illuminated'.

Inspired

Deliver me, out of my gladness. Deliver me, back to the madness. Take away the courage that guides me. Take away the strength from inside me. I fear loving and caring. I fear giving and sharing. I like the crosses that I'm bearing. Deliver me to evil, expose me, Love, to wrong; Against the happines that gathers, help me be strong; To those who plot to hurt me and spread the treacherous snare, Lead them, Love, and keep them safeguarded in your care.

For all the couplets that did not rhyme

I don't care if you already know More than a person, you are my darkness And I’m pleased with the blackness Thanks for wiping it all away It’s malady again How do you know I love it this way? Bring the curtains down please There’s no place for sunshine In this house of mine Who knows it better than you? 'cause that's something you do Hold me when I’m rising Please hate me when I’m good Please suffocate every breeze You know it already, don't you? When choked, I am at ease Remove the tourniquet That mars the blood flow Oh I love to see the red It looks good out of skin In its glorious gorious glow O please keep me from success For if I succeed I might taste some good times And leave your soul to bleed I had a bad day again But honey look at your smile So to keep that all the while I’ll be ready for another day of pain I hope no one saw me smiling How can I be so careless? This a bad thing that happens to me I want agony back in my life So be around me more often Stay with me for a season Don’t allow my times to soften Take away all my reason This way I would stand all treason For all the couplets that did not rhyme Honey! You didn't allow me the time