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electriclandWent to the Fox last night and wound up seeing both the movies on their double bill: C.R.A.Z.Y. and Good Night, and Good Luck. Both were excellent although, obviously, very different. While it's easy to focus on the political parallels in Good Night, and Good Luck, it's even more of an indictment of television news (and corporate news in general), the politics and pressures that affect what gets covered and what does not. It's not as heavy-handed as I feared,and the performances are wonderful. And it LOOKS gorgeous. Went to see it with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankygrrl and her mum and stepdad, both of whom agreed that they really got the look of the 50s right.
C.R.A.Z.Y. was just wonderful and hilarious and touching and great. For those of you who maybe haven't heard of it, it's the story of a working-class Quebec family of five brothers and their parents, from 1960 to 1980, which was incidentally a period of huge social change in Quebec. Also musical change. It focuses on Zac, the fourth brother (the movie's title comes from the initials of the five brothers, and also Patsy Cline), who gradually figures out and accepts that he is gay, and whose father has a hard time coming to terms with that. Which sounds very dull, written down, but isn't. (The line that brought down the house: Dad, forcefully denying that his son is gay, insists that "it's not natural to want to stick your dick up someone's ass!" Mum stops brushing her teeth, turns a gimlet eye on him, and says "You've got a short memory.")
Anyway, a good evening. Finished with the pesto pizza at Quigley's, which needed salt (a rarity for me).
crankygrrl and her mum and stepdad, both of whom agreed that they really got the look of the 50s right.C.R.A.Z.Y. was just wonderful and hilarious and touching and great. For those of you who maybe haven't heard of it, it's the story of a working-class Quebec family of five brothers and their parents, from 1960 to 1980, which was incidentally a period of huge social change in Quebec. Also musical change. It focuses on Zac, the fourth brother (the movie's title comes from the initials of the five brothers, and also Patsy Cline), who gradually figures out and accepts that he is gay, and whose father has a hard time coming to terms with that. Which sounds very dull, written down, but isn't. (The line that brought down the house: Dad, forcefully denying that his son is gay, insists that "it's not natural to want to stick your dick up someone's ass!" Mum stops brushing her teeth, turns a gimlet eye on him, and says "You've got a short memory.")
Anyway, a good evening. Finished with the pesto pizza at Quigley's, which needed salt (a rarity for me).
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Date: 2006-02-01 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-01 04:59 pm (UTC)I should also mention that the actor playing Teenage Zac is BEAUTIFUL. OMG. (Top photo here. (http://www.cinemamontreal.com/aw/crva.aw/p.cm/r.que/m.Montreal/j.e/i.8020/f.C_R_A_Z_Y_.html))
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Date: 2006-02-01 05:10 pm (UTC)He is, indeed, beautiful. Seriously beautiful.
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