Saturday, February 21, 2009
Oscar and Friends are no Match for the Real Thing
It's Oscar weekend, a time for fantasy and fairytales. In the week that has Kate, Angelina, Brad and Sean making mental notes for acceptance speeches before an anticipated audience of one billion, it's worth recalling that their stories, full of texture and well-crafted though they are, are made small by enduring images of real life. The simplicity of a job well done, like that of Captain Sully and his crew when they ditched in the Hudson saving 155 other ordinary lives, or the matter-of-fact death-defying performance of Jade Goody who has exposed media hypocrisy in class-stricken Britain, or the news that Tiger is coming back to reinvigorate the tired world of sports all reveal how drama, tragedy and passion and extrordinary events are all around us. That's not to say the Oscars do not have their place, but I went out today and bought Visconti's La Terra Trema for the wonderfully chubby girl I hang out with, and realised I'm an old sentimentalist at heart. And that's not so bad after all. Is it?
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Nothing wrong with being sentimental....life does not a bit of whimsy.....but no reason to diss the Oscars, where can you see so many outrageous dresses in one place, not to mention the shoes and the jewelry.....plus, nothing wrong with celebrating great films, they do have one thing that those remarkable, ordinary lives are often missing: a good script and some great lines......So three cheers for Brad, Sean, Kate, Danny etc etc
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