No writing in two weeks. But now, locked in a car with "Locke."

NO ONE WILL READ THIS.  If you read my posts, you probably all think I have lost my fingers and thus cannot type or that I hate you all (so not true) or that I have bloggers block or that I have nothing to say (so true) or that I just am a lazy fucker and haven't bothered to write (a little too true to talk about.)

So here I am. Back. Again.  And I have a dozen (or a half) posts in my pocket so just suck it up and tune in and read, for pete's sake.  No apologies.  No judgement.

The movie "Locke" is as you would imagine: locked (virtually) in a car with a guy named Locke and that's it.  Nothing else.  No other people. No other scenery except the car.  Just Locke on the phone, talking.  We hear the other side of the conversation but see no one. Just talk, talk, talk.  There must be no law in England about talking incessantly on the phone because that's all that happens here, a guy just talks and talks on the phone as he drives.

But wait!  It is so much more than that. Yes, he talks and although the movie is almost in real time (but a bit condensed) we learn a lot about this guy in 90 minutes, more than we often learn about real people in 90 days. A life-changing event has hit him like a truck load of cement on this very night and he realizes that he must deal with this event straight on, now, not tomorrow, but now.  So he puts everything else, his job (on the night before the biggest job event of his life) and his family and everything, on the back burner. He tries to smooth the waves a bit (because he does cause some big waves) but he is a man on a mission and he will not stop until his mission is complete.

The brilliant and surprising thing about this film (which is probably now 100% out of theaters) is that it is gorgeous. It's like a Kurosawa film, full of silence and light and the play of the light on surfaces, colors streaming along the sides of the car and shooting off into the air, sometimes the only sound is the car tires on the road. Visually, it is mesmerizing. It is worth seeing just for that.  And it is worth seeing for the one guy, in his car, trying to right the world he has just turned upside down.  You leave wondering what happens next.  

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