A quick review: this is a very small, intimate movie about two geeky guys in their early 50's maybe, neighbors who eat dinner together most nights and watch strange kung fu movies and go off to their lame jobs during the day. Best friends of a sort.
No spoilers here because the first scene of the movie shows them in a doctor's office, finding out that one of the two is probably going to die of serious cancer. But right there, in that one scene, you sort of get these guys. "What, you never saw "All the President's Men?" one character says to the doctor, and I will leave that there. To explain it loses too much. Watch and see.
These two guys have no family (or at least none that we see) but they are a couple in the true sense of that word: they are simply together. Not as anything but friends but so much deeper than just friends, but then again, not really. Just friends.
I liked this movie a lot and in part because it is so simple and so clear. Nothing but two guys trying to figure out how to come to terms with death while at the same time trying to never come to terms with it. It's sort of like life: escape when you can and then hold your hands over your eyes and your ears when you cannot escape. Then finally, accept it and be mad about it all. And, in the end, you have to move on.
Don't expect this movie to change your life ** but do expect it to make you think about life. What else is there?
** so, what movies do change your life? Well, other than the obvious like "Chinatown" and "The Godfather" and "The Shining" and maybe "Pulp Fiction." (Two nights ago, watching the Academy Awards, I just wanted Samuel L. Jackson to say, totally out of context, "...hmm, this is a tasty burger!" )
Check out "Paddleton" if you are looking for a nice, quiet movie about love and life and death and trying to carry on.
xo.
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