JAIBHAKTI MOVIE REVIEW:
"I AM DAVID"
"I Am David" (click on title for information)
PAUL FEIG: Writer/Director
If you don't cry during this movie, you aren't alive.
This past weekend, I watched "I am David" three times (on IFC: the Independent Film Channel). Ben Tibber, the young man who played David, deserved an Oscar nod for his performance as a young man who escapes from a Stalinist Labor Camp and heads out on a journey to find his true home, which is illustrated in colorful flashbacks throughout the film. The movie works because the whole is created by a cast of superior parts: the acting, the scenery, the wardrobes, the dialogue, and most especially Stewart Copeland's magnificent score, moves the story along at the most appropriate pace--the exact pace you would expect a young person of David's stature to absorb and assimilate his experiences. Never boring; always intriguing; my only wish is that the movie went into greater detail: the movie could have easily gone on for another half hour.
Joan Plowright's character is one of the all-time most compassionate, most humane characters I have ever scene on film. I wish so much her character to be an actual person: I would relish the chance to visit her for a spot of tea or sit beside her while painting watercolors of the lush scenery down by her favorite lake. The character she created shall forever be etched in my mind, and for that I thank her. She truly has made the world a better place by creating a character whom I believe we all should aspire to match in compassion, grace, and good humor.
At the end of the movie, "Cold Water", the very poignant and appropriate Damien Rice song, pulls us deeper and deeper into our hearts as the story comes to an end...which is really just the beginning. In my mind I bent down and swept David up in my arms, kissed his forehead, and told him I loved him. I believe you will too.
tags: Jaibhakti, Bhakti Brophy, I Am David, Joan Plowright, Ben Tibber, Paul Feig, Jim Caviezel, Damien Rice, Stewart Copeland,
PAUL FEIG: Writer/Director
If you don't cry during this movie, you aren't alive.
This past weekend, I watched "I am David" three times (on IFC: the Independent Film Channel). Ben Tibber, the young man who played David, deserved an Oscar nod for his performance as a young man who escapes from a Stalinist Labor Camp and heads out on a journey to find his true home, which is illustrated in colorful flashbacks throughout the film. The movie works because the whole is created by a cast of superior parts: the acting, the scenery, the wardrobes, the dialogue, and most especially Stewart Copeland's magnificent score, moves the story along at the most appropriate pace--the exact pace you would expect a young person of David's stature to absorb and assimilate his experiences. Never boring; always intriguing; my only wish is that the movie went into greater detail: the movie could have easily gone on for another half hour.
Joan Plowright's character is one of the all-time most compassionate, most humane characters I have ever scene on film. I wish so much her character to be an actual person: I would relish the chance to visit her for a spot of tea or sit beside her while painting watercolors of the lush scenery down by her favorite lake. The character she created shall forever be etched in my mind, and for that I thank her. She truly has made the world a better place by creating a character whom I believe we all should aspire to match in compassion, grace, and good humor.
At the end of the movie, "Cold Water", the very poignant and appropriate Damien Rice song, pulls us deeper and deeper into our hearts as the story comes to an end...which is really just the beginning. In my mind I bent down and swept David up in my arms, kissed his forehead, and told him I loved him. I believe you will too.
tags: Jaibhakti, Bhakti Brophy, I Am David, Joan Plowright, Ben Tibber, Paul Feig, Jim Caviezel, Damien Rice, Stewart Copeland,
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10 Comments:
I shall have to look out for it!
Great to see a post from you :-D
Hope this comment finds you well.
MILADYSA: Yes! I think YOU will love this movie! I went to the bookstore with mom (mum?) yesterday and looked for the book version to no avail. I bought Buring My Heart At Wounded Knee--a book about how the English settlers and Spaniard Mexicans slaughtered the Native Americans (aka Indians, Red Skins). It's quite moving. I don't feel guilty for being American, because I didn't kill any of the people, but I do feel majorly digusted to be associated with a country the teaches that "Manifest Destiny" was a 'great thing' for America!!!!! Yet they don't teach (in the school text books) that "Manifest Destiny" meant that the English/American settlers believed that because they were a 'greater people' that they had the right to slaughter and take all of the land from the 'savage' indians. We have been raping and pillaging this great spiritual land since Columbus landed some 400 years ago.
Oh well, on to a happier subject: it's great to hear from yoU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GYROBO: thanks for stopping by, my little metal guy. It's nice to see that you are still checking the blog for updates. I have been sketching and doing watercolors. I'll probably write something about that experience--or maybe post some of my paintings.
What do you want me to write about?
Pick a subject and I'll write about it (this should be interesting!!!!!) :)
A big thank you for that review.
I'm renting it...
By the way, just read your comment. I have Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. I've always wanted to produce a short film about Captain Jack. If only I had access to more money. :(
Happy Friday Bhakti!
MIFRIENDSA!
Hello, my friend. I am sorry that I have been offline for awhile again.
I do think about you often.
Do you have a mobile phone?
Is there a special fee to text message somone across the pond?? I suppose so.
Oh well, perhaps we can simply email each other. (which still poses a problem because I'm not online to check my email too often, either!) Keep me in your thoughts and prayers, and I shall do the same!
Love ya,
Bhakti
ZS--I think about you, too. ;)
We have a delightful local movie house that often brings great movies like this in. They take requests. I'll be uploading this to their website imminently.
I hope you've been well! Apologies for being such a stranger for so long. Life's been a little nutty. Good-nutty, but nutty all the same. Thankfully, our lives remain blessed. Hope to e-speak soon.
CARMI--I am so glad that you stopped by. :) Thanks for bringing a smile to my face...as always! :)
bakhti i have seen the film this morning,its very beautiful and full of hope...even the sadness of protagonist. I thank ypou for this page ,excellent!!!!!!!
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