Sometimes in the summer we go a month without watching a movie but we watched three in the last week. Each one was in a completely different genre. Starting last Sunday we watched Wit. It's a story of a 48 year old woman fighting a losing battle with ovarian cancer. It didn't put a syrupy coating on what it's like to live the last days of one's life in chemo treatment. I loved the honesty of the movie and would highly recommend it if you don't have to have every story turn out right. It might also help you think about writing advance directives.
Last night we watched City Island. A movie about a New York family where each member is holding some secret from the others and the total mess it's making of their lives. It's comedy. Don't look for any transcendent truths - just some good laughs and a feel good redemptive ending. Totally the other end of the spectrum from Wit.
Tonight we watched No Impact Man. A documentary about a couple in New York who along with their 1.5 year old(?) daughter, decide to live a year attempting to make no impact on the environment. They progress into parts of it but at points are without electricity, toilet paper, garbage production, any kind of fossil fuel burning transportation and a host of other "necessities". All food they eat has to be grown within 250 miles of New York. At the end of it they've lived so much better that they decide to only go part way back to their old ways.
So there you go. The first movie reviews you've ever gotten on this blog and probably the last.
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