Early Sunday Morning Movie Review/ Venus
Table of contents for 3/Topics And TV
- Labor Day 2007 Ruminations
- Do They Have Fireworks For Labor Day?
- Early Sunday Morning Movie Review/ Venus
- Say Hello To My Little Friend
- What is Your Bridge Rated?
When I say it’s early I mean almost six am. Who can sleep much? It’s the “blue pills” that do it. There was a reference in the movie we watched last night to blue pills and it made me laugh. Beth and I had an interested meal at a local Steak and Ale and then came home to curl up and watch a movie on our cable service’s nearly new movie file. After going through the list we settled on Venus with Peter O’Toole and a host of good actors. Peter is great. He deserves an adjective all his own. And he looks to be the kind of guy you could sit down with and have a delightful time. You would be chatting like old friends in a matter of minutes. Early in the film he and his buddy are taking their morning rations including various pills and his friend says something about the blue ones keeping you awake. That might be Strattera. A finer medication was never produced in this world and they are blue. They help with RLS because it strikes when you are sleepy during the day.
The movie is about Peter’s character, Maurice, and his friend’s great-niece, Jessie. Jessie is played by Jodie Whittaker who does a great job of portraying a 19 year old brat who eventually morphs into an attractive young lady. I had a lot of trouble understanding what she was saying however because of the differences in our pronunciation of the English language. . I really could have used subtitles with this film.
Maurice decided a long time ago that life was about seeking and giving pleasure. He sees potential in Jessie. And they begin a relationship that was interesting to watch from my perspective as an old guy although not as old as this. Peter is in his mid seventies I think but Maurice is tottering on the edge of the grave and appears to be much older. He has a prostate operation early on in the film and jumps out of his recovery bed to go be with his new love interest. This can’t be too good for the success of the recovery. And he keeps telling people he is going to die. Perhaps this is a premonition. It could be his way of getting attention. The operation went well and you don’t generally die from this sort of thing so I didn’t really understand that part.
Maybe falling in love with this girl is killling him! He certainly can’t succeed as a suitor but he loves to be around her neck. Literally. And she has no problem slugging him if he gets too close.
You know what happens eventually. She stops treating him like dirt and learns to love him a little bit. He loves her a lot and dies. It’s predictable fun for a Saturday night. But what movies are not predictable these days? Formulas make money. New ideas are risky. The last movie I saw that really screwed up my predicability theory was The Sixth Sense back in the last century. I liked that movie almost as much as I liked Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. I guess you could say I like movies that are way out in left field. I like them even better if they are in Kenmore Square. I used to live in Kenmore Square. It’s down the street from Fenway Park. If you are reading this and have always lived in Indonesia Fenway Park is in Boston and it is the home of the Boston Red Sox.
Maybe you know that anyway. You probably get half the games on channel 635.
I wanted to see this movie because last spring I became a great fan of Jordin Sparks on American Idol. I really fell for her and still can get going if I read something or think about her. I don’t live for pleasure and have no interest in a physical relationship with anyone besides my beloved Beth but Jordin is a talented and beautiful girl. I can see why older guys like me, age 58, and younger women like Jordin, age 17, have strange relationships.
I wish Jordin would hurry up and finish her first CD so I can buy it and glide down the road in blissful solitude with the speakers cranked up.
Hopefully I will pay attention to traffic and not end up like Maurice.
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