Movie Night

This movie is getting accolades rained down on it from just about everyone this award season and with the Golden Globes this coming Sunday night ( a busy tv night! ) we are having to hurry to get some movies crossed off our list.

I only knew the gimmick of this film before watching tonight, that it was filmed in real time over a 12 year period - which is just a little mind blowing that this group of artists could pull something like this off - no one dropping out etc. I did not know the story at all - and it turns out there really is not one.

It is a very interesting film, but as much if not more ( much more ) for the style of the film than the overall " movie ". Groundbreaking etc, and I was scratching my head to think if anything like this had ever been done before - ( the SEVEN UP series of British Films ?? but they were non fiction, so really no, nothing that I can think of ).

It sort of blurs the lines between film and documentary - to the point of me worrying about the young mans mental health after he was all done - from six to eighteen this was a part of his life - what did he do that first year with out it? You are sort of on the edge of your seat waiting for something to happen, that really never does - because for the most part in real life, not at the movies, things do not happen. Not that it is in any way dull, not at all - Just if it were a cast , scripted movie, with different actors playing the roles of the aging child, would this be a good film at all ?

I think it might pull down some major awards this year if only for the audacity of trying something like this.

We may try to get SELMA in tomorrow , but will not get them all before the GG's on Sunday, luckily there are not as many to see for the Oscars....