Somewhere

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Netflixed Coppola's Golden Lion winner. I've been a big fan of her previous work (specifically Lost In Translation) and I should really see the other two, but I was very impressed with Somewhere.

It's an exceptionally risky script. She's attempting to talk about boredom and the malaise that can occasionally accompany success and, rather than simply depict a character complaining about how bored he is, she takes a gamble and appears to literally attempt to bore the audience with his actions. Whole sequences just depict Dorff not doing anything. Another writer, including me, would have shown a character yearning to do something, or watching people enjoy themselves but, as everyone around him idolizes him, the protagonist can't necessarily complain about his station. It's an amazing risk and overall a great film.

I'm beginning to respect films with less and less dialogue. Drive, as I mentioned previously, does this and Somewhere does it to the extreme. I don't believe, save one scene, the characters of Somewhere discuss the movie's actual theme.

Its ending is perhaps a little dramatic, but even in that, serves as a strong and bold choice made by the director. The more I see of Coppola, the more I like her.

Lost in Transition

(Speaking of, I re-watched said film with the missus and continue to adore it.)

I'm very between things right now. Not just in an employment sense.

In one week, we shoot the book trailer.
In two weeks, my girlfriend joins me out west.
In one month, I launch an IndieGoGo to crowdfund my novel.
In four months, I release my novel.

I'm twiddling my thumbs here. I'm living in the lifetime equivalent of putting your shoes on ten minutes too early and lingering near the door for an uncomfortable amount of time before the proverbial bus shows up.

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