"it's not you, it's me."
or so the saying goes.
i finally got to see juno this weekend. after months of hearing good things and no premiere date in sight, it finally came out in taipei.
most of the time, i don't go to movies unless someone suggests it to me. i'm not sure why this is. also, english films are intolerably loud here. geez, if we weren't deaf before we started watching, we certainly are now!
i've gotta say that i expected more. of what, i'm not sure. it was sweet and enjoyable and awkward like teenage romance tends to be, but maybe i just wanted a more profound experience. or message.
i really liked the soundtrack, though.
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"...[the book] starts out with this peasant - the pilgrim - wanting to find out what it means in the bible when it says you should pray incessantly. you know. without stopping... and he meets this starets - this very advanced religious person... well, the starets tells him about the Jesus prayer first of all. 'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' i mean that's what it is. and he explains to him that those are the best words to use when you pray. especially the word 'mercy,' because it's such a really enormous word and can mean so many things. i mean it doesn't just have to mean mercy... the starets tells the pilgrim that if you keep saying that prayer over and over again - you only have to just do it with your lips at first - then eventually what happens, the prayer becomes self-active. something happens for a while. i don't know what, but something happens, and the words get synchronized with the person's heartbeats, and you're actually praying without ceasing."
-j.d. salinger, franny and zooey
2 comments:
i felt the same way. i mean, it was cute and everything, but not so... realistic as i thought it might be. but you're right, the soundtrack is good :)
Perhaps the movies are just louder than you remember? When K and i saw the new Indy movie i was plugging my ears a few times due to ridiculous loudness!
I liked Juno, but certainly not 'cause it had a grand message or anything--or was particularly realistic--but still it gets the idea across that teens get pregnant all the time, perhaps in a more readily comprehensible way than a more realistic movie would be (i'm thinking for parents of pregnant teens here). Maybe i just liked it. The end.
Still, i remember feeling annoyed by some of the lingo like they were trying to be the next Napoleon Dynamite or something--which I also think is good, although grossly overrated.
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