I don’t bloody know why I’m feelin so down. Ok, I do know why. I am just so annoyed as to why euphoria can’t last longer than a month…
And then just as I’m down, I see some movie that is like a punch to the gut and I wanna crawl up and brood and mull and daydream and just wonder where it all went wrong in my past life that this current one is being such a bitch. Don’t get me wrong, I wanna grab life by the damn horns and ride it like the mistress of my destiny and all of that spiel.
I guess you or whoever it is setting up the idea in my head, is right. I just need to snap out of this and subsequent posts have to be about, well ideally, on my 1st steps to take once I land in Sydney. That should get me outta the funk and also stop me from blowing up at mum when she asks me about my plans.
Should. Would. Could. Perhaps. Maybe. Probably. Possibly. Guess. Might. – My life would be worth a lot more if I didn’t have those words in my vocabulary.
Sooo I came upon such a precious gem of a film, it’s quite a surprise it’s not all that well-known given the writer/director/actor is “Ted Mosby” known as Josh Radnor in reality and all that popularity of How I Met Your Mother.
But I’m not complaining, these are the best kinda surprises.
Happythankyoumoreplease.
That is such a wannabe-cutesy-title if ever I had seen one. But just the fact of having time on my hands, dinner to eat and no one to talk to drove me to look at trailers and well Josh Radnor while quite the whiney thing is still a cutie pie and I don’t need Oscar to keep me company while I while away the time. So…off I went into this first directorial venture and….
Awwwwwww!!!
…I loved all of it and wished it went on and on and on and so glad it didn’t. I just loved everything about it, though it was nothing ground-breaking (come to think of it, not all that is ground-breaking is love-worthy right?!) and it def has its fair share of cheesy-stuff but maybe it because it is ‘Ted’ and you naturally expect it perhaps…but the characters and lines work. They really do.
Characters:
- Struggling author meets struggling singer
- Struggling author’s best friend suffers from Alopecia and while outwardly sassy and put together, wants the true love in a good lookin’ package.
- Struggling author meets a small boy by chance and is saddled with him, altering his priorities.
- Struggling author’s cousin is in love with big-floppy-haired-man who loves her as much but….. yeah, there’s always the but.
All of these people come together and yet they don’t but it was ok for me, because somehow the stories all seemed so important for me to continue watching without rooting for anyone in particular, and finding myself invested in each one of them. I think that is the success of his story and movie.
Best lines of the night.
“You write short stories and I think you like living short stories. I’m kinda ready for the novel, you know?”
Struggling actor’s cousin’s boyfriend wants them to go to LA and live another life, and she doesn’t want to because New York is home. She finds out that she is pregnant and is torn between telling him and not because she doesn’t want to be the woman who tied him down and yet he’s her best friend and she’s just so completely torn up about the whole thing. ..and …and ….And the next scene happens:
“Tell me what is going on.” “I can’t. I am afraid of what will happen if it hits the air.” “You can say anything to me. You threw a vase at my head three years ago, and I stuck around didn’t I?” “You ducked.” “Fuck yeah, I ducked. I have great reflexes. That’s what I am saying; I can take it… “ There’s a gap and he says, “Whisper it to me” and she leans in to do just that. He pulls back, looks her in the eye and goes “I will live wherever you want.”
Struggling actor’s best friend likes this guy who likes her a great deal but… “he looks like he should be making balloon animals at a birthday parties. Why do I have to be with balloon-animal-guy?”
and then… during dinner, balloon-animal-guy (who’s actually a lawyer on the 7th floor of the building where she works in, on the 5th floor) says:
“Close your eyes. I just want you to listen to me. Humor me please. It’s not easy to be a dork. You in particular, you have a tougher time with it than most. I get that. But I want you to give it a try. Think of it as an experiment. I promise I will be wonderful in adoring you Annie. It’s an area where I think I got a great deal of talent. You are worth that adoration Annie. You are worth it. And the fact that you don’t believe it has nothing to do with whether it is true or not. It is true for me and that is all that matters.”
Struggling actor listens to his best friend’s phone message/epiphany:
“I love me some beauty. I mean, who doesn’t? But here’s the crazy thing Sammy boy; I am listening to SAM #2 becuase he made me close my eyes…SO HAWT…and he is making a total case for me and him to be an item. And as he’s talking, it’s like the molecules on his face must have rearranged theselves. Cuz, when I open my eyes, suddenly I am in front of the most beautiful gorgeous man…
…Sadness begone. Let’s be people who deserve to be loved. Who are worthy of being loved. Because we are worthy. We really are. That’s what you have been telling me for years, and now I get to spit it back at you.”
But the best one-liners were:
“FUCK! Don’t swear.” – said to kid who’s following him around, and repeated on repeated occasions
“Thank you. More please.” and say it with a smile. The Universe has a middle name and it is Abundance
