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Movie Monday
What with this week being three half-days in school and my starting the boots on the Mario blanket, this posting will be short. Just some movie thoughts; which I will flesh out at a later date.
Doubt with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
Be sure to see it if only for Streep's performance. Hers is what transcends acting from a craft into the sphere of magic. OK, that last line was hokey but most of the time, if you're lucky, you get to see good actors play roles to which you can connect. But all the time watching them you know that they are very good actors playing role.
Streep, however, is the nun she plays in Doubt. This is not Meryl Streep' s interpretation of a nun with a Boston flat accent. This is Sister Aloysius Beauvier who lives in Boston and whose slice of life you are watching.
Now, once again, I missed huge portions of this movie due to falling asleep and right now I'm only as far as the two nuns discussing a possible problem with Father Brendan and young boys. So I have a long way to go to see if the drama holds up to Streep's performance.
I'm having a minor (major?) problem already though because of the scene where Amy Adam's Sister James watches Father Brendan place something in a boy's locker. (A deed done without any suspicious undertones.) Then she goes to the locker and removes what he put in.
The year of the movie is 1964. (Brendan's opening sermon mentions JFK died last year.) The nun's are still in full garb. Sister Aloysius talks about the pecking order of the RC. No nun in that time period would have spied on a priest without very, very good cause.
A quibbling point? Perhaps, but a lot is hanging on the nun's suspicions of Father Brendan.
Then a few scenes later, Sister James tells Sister Aloysius that Brendan called a boy out of her class to come to the rectory and that she noticed the boy was bothered when he came back. A good observations - for our times.
Is the author interjecting today's knowledge of pedophiles in the priesthood back to this time? Was this common knowledge in the 1960s?
I should go back and read some cultural/social history of the time period but I think I'm going to settle for IMDb reviews to see if anyone else picked this up.
Well, that's it. I told you it was going to be short. A more complete review of Doubt with follow - as soon as Starz runs it again and I stay awake.
Next Week: Approaching Union Square. A movie or just acting class?
What with this week being three half-days in school and my starting the boots on the Mario blanket, this posting will be short. Just some movie thoughts; which I will flesh out at a later date.
Doubt with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
Be sure to see it if only for Streep's performance. Hers is what transcends acting from a craft into the sphere of magic. OK, that last line was hokey but most of the time, if you're lucky, you get to see good actors play roles to which you can connect. But all the time watching them you know that they are very good actors playing role.
Streep, however, is the nun she plays in Doubt. This is not Meryl Streep' s interpretation of a nun with a Boston flat accent. This is Sister Aloysius Beauvier who lives in Boston and whose slice of life you are watching.
Now, once again, I missed huge portions of this movie due to falling asleep and right now I'm only as far as the two nuns discussing a possible problem with Father Brendan and young boys. So I have a long way to go to see if the drama holds up to Streep's performance.
I'm having a minor (major?) problem already though because of the scene where Amy Adam's Sister James watches Father Brendan place something in a boy's locker. (A deed done without any suspicious undertones.) Then she goes to the locker and removes what he put in.
The year of the movie is 1964. (Brendan's opening sermon mentions JFK died last year.) The nun's are still in full garb. Sister Aloysius talks about the pecking order of the RC. No nun in that time period would have spied on a priest without very, very good cause.
A quibbling point? Perhaps, but a lot is hanging on the nun's suspicions of Father Brendan.
Then a few scenes later, Sister James tells Sister Aloysius that Brendan called a boy out of her class to come to the rectory and that she noticed the boy was bothered when he came back. A good observations - for our times.
Is the author interjecting today's knowledge of pedophiles in the priesthood back to this time? Was this common knowledge in the 1960s?
I should go back and read some cultural/social history of the time period but I think I'm going to settle for IMDb reviews to see if anyone else picked this up.
Well, that's it. I told you it was going to be short. A more complete review of Doubt with follow - as soon as Starz runs it again and I stay awake.
Next Week: Approaching Union Square. A movie or just acting class?
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