Seasons

I am one of those people that love the fact that I live in a country that has four seasons. Perhaps because I have a restless soul and the changing seasons somehow satisfies it. Every few months you know that your physical, mental and emotional space will change with the seasons. You eat differently, your fashions change, how you spend your leisure time changes. We have had our first real blast of fall this week with rainy, windly, gloomy days. This finds me drawn to movies as I settle in forlate fall.

At the theater this week I saw:

The Black Dalhia: My recommendation is don't go and don't bother to rent when it comes out on DVD. The movie tries, with what seems like a thousand subplots and you wait for it all to come together in the end. And it doesn't. Both my friend Vicki and I left going...What?!?!

Little Miss Sunshine: I highly recommend. The beginning was a little darker than I expected. Actually I was struggling with the movie as each character was so bleak. As the movie progresses you begin to see each character overcoming and accepting what it is they have to face. Dreams are wonderful, but watching them go up in smoke is painful, overcoming the disapointment is a powerful statement about the human spirit. The end brings it all together, there is a collective joy for all the characters. No more need be said, if you haven't seen it, I will not be the one to take away the ending. Yes, I can be a little emotional....so I cried, but they were happy tears. Go and enjoy.

This is also the time I tend to rent movies and catch up on what I had missed throughout the summer.

Kinky Boots: Again a movie that takes you through this dark, bleak beginning and watching characters struggle and continue to believe. The ending is spectacular, just plain kickass fun.

Adam and Steve: A friend had loaned me this movie and it has been kicking around my place all summer. Although I personally find the opening a little distasteful for me, there is nothing I love more than an adorable romance story. And one between two gay men...ah...my heart melts. Who wouldn't want to be part of that couple as they dated and fell in love. Meeting each others parents....the movie is quirky (I love quirky). The final showdown scene, country line dancing. Again pure fun and full of romance. My dream.

This weekend Running With Scissors opens, so I have already made that my plan for satuday night. I have finished the book, again a recommended read, so am looking forward to see how they have adapted the movie.

Enjoy these rainy days and catch up on some great movies. Happy Thursday.