It was absolutely freezing in my room this morning. The heat was on and I had a thin blanket or two, but anytime my hand or foot would protrude from under the covers it was met with quasi-icy air. I guess there is a disadvantage to having huge windows and a 15-foot ceiling, namely lack of insulation, and well, convection.<\/p>\n
Worked on the car a little more last night. Found some parts that I thought I’d have to dig around for, not an appealing prospect at 11 p.m. in the world’s messiest garage with only a shoplight. I hooked up the fuel supply line and sorted out some of the sensors and vacuum lines that snake around the intake manifold.<\/p>\n
I watched All the Real Girls<\/i> last night too, kind of an indie romance\/drama thing. The director grew up in the mountains around here, and that’s where the movie is set, so the locations and vistas were very familiar indeed. The cinematography was really breathtaking, capturing details here and there instead of grabbing the scene all at once as a means of establishing place, and it worked to slow down the pace of the movie, reflecting the themes and the nature of the area in which the movie is set, small-town NC, where time crawls by out of sync with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
I think my familiarity worked against me as far as the analysis of the dialogue. For at least the first half-hour or so, I was so concerned with whether they were going to present regionally-correct characterizations that a lot of the lines and the nuance just walked right by me. But once I got over the fact that the film isn’t an exercise in cinerealism, I really enjoyed it. I doubt anybody in small-town NC would speak the way they did, or at least they’d take a lot longer to do it, but it doesn’t mean the things they express aren’t accurate, and maybe I’m just not giving local folks the benefit of the doubt. In any case, some of the lines and monologues are incredibly poetic.<\/p>\n
Good film. Familiar enough to hit close to home in a lot of ways, but aloof enough to distill the vulnerability and motivations of its characters and crystallize those into compelling interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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