Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by mikenyc on October 15, 2002 at 00:16:55

Excellent contemporary film, about many things, like Personal Values, Choices...but most of all it's about Balance and Rage with ourselves and people who like disaster and chaos in their lives...also the frustration of living in today's world, with all of those things that,we feel, "complicate" our lives, and how real people deal with them. It's about how things can get out of control, with our own selves...if we let them. How we are losing touch with ourselves, and core values. Like I said, lots of things.

Great acting by Ben Affleck (yes, he's THAT good), and especially, Samuel L. Jackson, who keeps things film "real" and interesting.

Some of these types of films, communicate with a sledgehammer, by being too preachy and, well, dull...or they are trite and just silly. "Falling Down" is dumb AND silly, now, beside this film, "Changing Lanes", which is entertaining and intelligent.

Unfortunately we want films want "Changing Lanes" to be dull, because when people go to the movies, most of us don't want to go see films like these...we don't want to go to the movies to see the dark side of our selves or see things, that force us to think about our real lives...we just want to be entertained, period.

That's too bad, because bright films like these, are going to be "lost" and cosigned to the "back" of the shelf, where they should be required viewing to give us an idea of where "we" are going in our lives.