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In Reply to: Re: Broken Flowers, petals amiss... posted by musetap on January 19, 2006 at 16:43:27:
Martin Donovan?I thoroughly enjoy the work of Jim Jarmush, just for the fact that he tells stories with interesting characters. This reminds me of another favorie of mine, Hal Hartley, who also uses low affect characters to tell his off beat, and to many, what appear as banal stories.
In the case of BF, we see yet another story of mid- life crisis. When you suddenly realize that you have lived most of your life and you actually have less time in front of you than behind you.
What has been accomplished? What happened to your dreams and expectations?
Is this ALL THERE IS?
This guy lived the sweet free high life of the financially successful bachelor, complete with an endless string of temporary sexual trysts that allowed him some pleasure and passion, but never caused him to develop any real intimate relationships.Then it occurs to him that he actually has nothing. Not really.
The insane idea that he may have a son awakens something in him that drives him to discover that one thing he lacks... The last scenes are knockout, IMO. So much of human emotion in so few moments.
I thought the film was a good slice of life that all of us confront in one way or another, and the contrasting liveliness and color of the support characters only proves that we can make a B&W film in technicolor. :)
Later
D
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