I eventually made it outta there, and I had about half an hour until the next one. I’d actually planned ahead and brought a granola bar intead of pigging out at the snack bar like I typically do at my double features.
The whole placing was really jumping, mostly there for Crazy Heart I think. There’s always a really strange vibe there, guess cause its not my usual crowd. There’s just some sorta slightly superior attitude I tend to get from ’em. Makes me feel almost like a poser being at that small indie theater when I spend far more time watching the big coporate blockbuster type films. And then when the trailers play, Im sitting there thinking WTF during some of them, bored during others, but everyone around me is laughing hysterically or chattering away about how good those films look. Huh? Moving On.
An Education is another one of those that I didnt expect to like, based on the premise alone. Then A) it got really good buzz B)it was on the list of 25 movies to see before the Oscars C) Quentin Tarantino (the god of movie gods in my eyes) listed it as one of his faves for the year. So I went. As soon as the quirky music started playing over the opening credits, I knew I was in for something fun.
Turns out quirky is a pretty good way to describe a lot of the film. The spirit of the movie, especially embodied thru the main character Jenny, was very much like Juno–spunky young independant woman learns about life the hard way. Carey Mulligan was so adorable, but also capable of such depth. She’s another assumed lock for an Oscar nod and I fully support that as well. I could also really relate to her character, having grown up in an environment of “”school first””, college is the number one goal. Granted, my ‘rents weren’t quite as harsh as hers, and I didnt have some big rebellion, harsh life lesson/epiphany, but I still totally get it. I guess for me it was more focus focus focus, done, now what?
Starting to ramble. Back to the film. Speaking of her parents, Alfred Molina played her dad. I hated him for half the movie, but I think that was just a sign of him doing a good job. Also, never quite realized Molina is actually British. Yeah, IMDB just told me that. Weird. Points for Peter Sarsgaard as well. Although I was kinda distracted for a lot of it cause I got his last name confused with Skarsgard, as in Alexander Skarsgard who plays the hottest vamp currently on tv–Eric on True Blood. I somehow got it into my head that they were bros, so that got in the way a bit.
Ultimately, yes I was very much entertained by this one. It was both very light at times and very intense at others. Yeah can’t really think of much else, but again thoroughly enjoyable
An Education – \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/”