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Elizabethtown
Kim and I went to see the new movie Elizabethtown on Friday night. I liked it a lot; initial reactions can’t always be trusted, but so far I’m thinking it’s one of my favorite movies ever. It’s Truman Show quality as far as I’m concerned.
The movie has so many different facets and random rabbit-trails everywhere. The main character (Drew Baylor, played by Orlando Bloom) is so quirky and so funny without really trying to be (like the scene where he’s waving his fingers over his cell phone saying "someone call me back"). He’s sort of really quiet, but you hear his thoughts overdubbed through a lot of the movie, and his expressions say a lot.
Elizabethtown is a sad movie in some ways, but it’s funny as I said, and it’s got the cute love-story element (Kirsten Dunst plays the lead female) too. Fortunately the love-story element isn’t obnoxious or overly cheesy, either. Overall the movie is just really interesting; it tells an interesting (if not novel) story with interesting characters.
The Truman Show is one of my favorite movies (maybe even #1), and Elizabethtown has some of the same kind of quirky humor as that movie. It also is sort of funny in the ways that Napoleon Dynamite is funny. There’s just a lot of really random non-slapstick interestingly funny stuff in it.
So I highly recommend this movie. And Kim does too.
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