Just finished The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Hopefully, I will be seeing that tomorrow.

What a mess.

Well, that describes many a Gilliam movie. I think, in fact, it could describe them all (including Holy Grail).

Juliebird, back to The Road, nope, haven't read it. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for years though!

Frank, I will probably eventually see it. You make good points. I just wish he'd die, then I wouldln't feel torn about being part of the machine that supports him.

That was such a nice thing for me to say. I don't really wish he'd die, it would just make my decision easier. And it's all about us, right?

You know, that sounds like Holmes, too.

You are not wrong Erika. And I hadn't even thought of it that way. I do suspect that RD,J tends to get back into drugs when he's bored, much like Holmes.

That was such a nice thing for me to say. I don't really wish he'd die, it would just make my decision easier. And it's all about us, right?

I hear you. And then I start to think about all the shit he dealt with as a child. And then got to the "promised" land of Hollywood. And then had what had happened happen again in a bizarro form. And it is no way an excuse, but that has to fuck you up.

Couple that with Hollywood where, as long as you were somewhat discreet, you could get away with anything from way back in the day, and then fast forward to 70's Hollywood, and all the new, exciting drugs that were around. I mean, Charlie Chaplin had the same thing for young girls; we just don't know if there's anything as ugly as Polanski did on record.

I don't even know what I think about Imaginarium.

I will say that Terry's wonderful visual style is watered down by CGI.

And all that meta hype is horribly misdirecting about who the focus of the movie is on --although first thirty or forty minutes sans Heath is a big clue, but that was thirty or forty minutes I was all "so, where's the lead?" before I realized that his role (flashy! hype! hype!) wasn't that important. And that's important I think, in order to stomach the end.

I know he had a rotten childhood. It doesn't mean that as an adult he gets to terrorize children in return.

And I don't mean to re-hash that discussion here, as I know it was played out when he was arrested in Switzerland.

But knowing how I feel about him, the next level is whether or not to see a movie he's made.

We finally watched Let the Right One In. Am I to understand that Eli's "father" started out as her boyfriend like Oscar?

That's one interpretation. But not what happened in the book.

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thanks, Tommy. I think I'll look for the book.