Sunday January 23, 2005 
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Holes in the Water
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Non Sequitur
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The Orthodox Church
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What's in the CD player?
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What's in the DVD player?
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What's on the bookshelf?
Sunday January 23, 2005
The critics hated it, but it worked just fine for me. Ashton Kutcher is believable as a good kid with bad blackouts which blot out the memories of traumatic episodes in his life. Re-reading his journals, he is taken back to the moments of truth, and discovers he has the power to change things for the better. The rub is, every time he fixes one thing, another thing breaks. (And the things in question are the lives of his friends and family, and ultimately even his own.) It's like a Rubic's cube with all the sides solved but one; try to change the one, and everything else falls apart. The moral of the story is, of course, "don't play God". But they wrapped a nail-biter of a flick around this simple lesson. It reminds me most of Frequency, though it's darker and more multi-threaded. Amy Smart did a fine job as well: she is believable as a struggling waitress, a well-off sorority sister, and, later, a crack-addled prostitute, as one of Kutcher's saves goes terribly wrong. The ending is bittersweet -- just like life. Those critics judged too harshly. (2005-01-23 15:03:39.0) Permalink Comments [2] Check the archives for entries dating back to the dawn of recorded history (June 14, 2004). |
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