I found her tiresome and irritating. And also disturbing. Her grief was not evocative for me in the least.
This was actually the whole point to me.
She WAS irritating, selfish and unhealthy.
She had a normal grief experience. Not a stylized, theatrical grief...but the real thing.
The movie came after the second most significant grief experience of my life and I saw myself in Nina. A normal person experiencing an untidy loss.
Plus, I fell in love with Alan Rickman instantly. That ardor has never cooled.
Well, look at THAT! I just discovered that my second favorite Alan Rickman film is on netflix streaming...along with my 5th favorite Alan Rickman film. HatchattaCHA!
Blow Dry here I come.
Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting. It's completely irrelevant, in fact. By about halfway in, I realised I did not care what she experienced or what happened to her. I stuck around because so many people like the movie, but she, they didn't come back from that--it was two people uninteresting to me doing uninteresting things in ways that didn't interest me.
Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting.
That's why I don't much like most family drama. True to life family troubles--I can get that in my living room.
Blow Dry
OMG, Bill Nighy! Natasha Richardson (RIP), Rachel Griffiths! Glorious tattoos! Blow Dry always had a Strictly Ballroom feeling to it, for me, though it's a vastly different tale.
The scissors on the bottom of his foot!!
This is what I am saying.
Plus, I love the accents (excepting Josh Hartnell, of course).
It's massive cheese and totally predictable, but I love it.
Bill Nighy is delish.
And yes, the same feeling as Strictly Ballroom, another of my faves.
I've seen quite a few questionable (but sort of interesting) early Alan Rickman. Close Your Eyes, where he plays a husband cuckolded by siblingcest (the brother's played by Clive Owen so maybe sort of understandable? IDK.) Man, what a weird film. An Awfully Big Adventure, also with the incest theme! A couple of movies that tried to capitalize on Rickman's charisma by casting him as historic figures well known for their famed magnetism -- Mesmer and Rasputin -- and fell short. And that one movie where he and Emma Thompson played a couple of bickering detectives on search for a a con woman played by Carla Gugino and they inexplicably failed to have any UST. I blamed the director (Gugino's hubby.)
I dunno. I love him, but I kind of feel like he's been ill-served by movies in general, TMD and Sense and Sensibility excepted. Well, and Galaxy Quest, of course.
I would never have thought to look for Blow Dry on Netflix streaming, but now I know one of the things I will be doing this weekend.
Blow Dry is pretty fun. Natasha and Rachel have great chemistry together. So does Alan and the rest of the cast.
