Not too long ago, Erin and I saw Juno, a wonderfully touching comedy. We both enjoyed the movie very much. Ellen Page successfully brings the viewer into the awkwardness of the teenage experience. Juno shows how a pregnant teenager comes to understand herself better. I think this is probably the best movie that I've seen in the last year.
Granted, Erin and I don't get to see too many movies anymore. Other recent movies that we've seen include Love in the Time of Cholera, 300, Ray, The Great Debaters (me), and The Departed (Erin). Love in the Time of Cholera presents an image of love quite different from, and in no way preferable to, Gone with the Wind. 300 plays off our fascination with the "other" (particularly the Persian, but also the Spartan to some extent). Ray had a marvelous moment of discovery near the end, but Ray's numerous indiscretions and downward spiral went on interminably, it seemed to me.
Justin
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