A Writer Afoot

The Namesake

I didn't quite make notes on 20 scenes, but I managed to get to the end of Act One. Enough to give myself the reward.  The movie was showing at Kimball's Twin Peaks, which used to be The Peak Theater when I was a girl.  They've divided it into two theaters and now serve wine and fancy coffees, but they also show great films no one else airs, and the setting is agreeably retro.   

All the words I keep coming up with to describe the movie are too pale to do justice to the pink and marigold yellow of it.  I love Mira Nair's use of color.  I love the music she chooses.  She presents human relationships with great tenderness, vast love. 

And I love that Indian movie stars are not all perfectly perfect.  Heartrendingly beautiful at times, but all the more believable and engrossing because I believe in them as real human beings.

Go see it.  Come back and tell me you did. 

Secret favorite genres

The sun is shining.  The window guy is coming to fix the shattered window tomorrow morning so I'll see out of the cave again.  I got out of the house yesterday and ran four miles and went to see my handsome youngest son, and figured out the main question in the MIP, which was blazingly obvious, but not to me.  Honestly, sometimes it seems like the girls have to put up blinking neon signs THEME RIGHT HERE before I get it.   Much relieved.

But to get it, I had to walk away from my computer, from my imagination, from the charts and boards and notes and pressure and look away.  I had to be in my body and run.  I had to be in the car and play music, and listen to my boy talk about his life and all the things his circle are doing.  I had to see pictures and go to a movie in my secret favorite subgenre:  teenage outsider/underdog movies.   All the better if they have music, dance, or an athletic contest in them, and this one did.  We both really liked it--STOMP THE YARD.  Stomp and battle dance and music and Underdog Makes Good.  I love these movies because they always make me feel better and I don't care if they're simplistic.  Sometimes that's okay.

Anyone else have a favorite movie or book genre you keep under wraps or maybe just don't broadcast?