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danandchad
Reviews
Le dernier jour (2004)
This movie provoked much more of an effect than I'd have liked.
The movie starts a little maudlin. Homeward bound for his family holiday, he meets a young woman on a train. He brings her home with him, and the family assume they are a couple and have been. He introduces her to a past friend, with undertones that it was a previous unrequited love interest. As she moves away from him towards a relationship with that friend, loneliness sets in. It brought back feelings of loneliness and emptiness, combined with anger and jealousy I felt at those ages (having been in the same scenario coming of age). To say it's better to have loved and lost has no bearing in this story. To see someone come of age with a story as this one rarely has a good outcome; I survived, many do not. The story takes a real almost unrealized twist toward the end, all I will say is pay attention to names and time-lines. I know my past was not the norm and hopefully most people seeing this movie, would be viewing it as the abstract life of another. No one should live through that pain and emptiness. I cried for an hour after the film was over.
The Oblongs... (2001)
Most of us can relate
This series is a combination of "Monte Pythons Flying Circus" meets "Family Circus". Although they're physically different, most of us can relate to the Oblongs and crew. Our rich and pretty run society make most of us feel little different. There's a little bit of Milo in all of us, and we all have our share of odd family members. I guess I feel we all put the "fun" in "disfunctional". Milo and his friends are the modern day "Little Rascals". It's sad to see these characters humor lost to cancellation. If you like the series, check out "Creepy Suzie" the book the show was based on. Mabey we'll all look back and see this as we did with Edward Gory 75 years after his work was published.