If things will go as planned today, I might be able to go inside the movie house after months of resorting to Internet downloads. I miss looking at the cardboard displays of upcoming movies, those life-sized photos, and colorful banners. I have two specific movies in mind, one I’ve already watched in my PC.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is my kind of movie - long narrations, exquisite cinematography, heart-tugging background music, and general musings about life and death and love and loss. The movie is adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.
The Secret Life of Bees, on the other hand, has been described as syrupy sweet and rather maudlin. It is a story about redemption, tolerance, love, and healing, and is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Sue Monk Kidd. I would watch anything that stars Dakota Fanning but I think I’ll like this one on its own merits, too. I don’t really have a problem with schmaltzy movie plots as long as it leaves an imprint on the mind as much as it plays with your emotions.
If things would not go as planned, I may have to download The Secret Life of Bees just to see for myself how the rather good lineup of stars gave life to this particular tale.
you have to watch The Secret Life of Bees, gravity. It's quite heartwarming. It's like being covered in honey - icky but definitely sweet 
But if you're into feel-good movies, then no ick. Re: Alicia Keys, she did well. Better than I expected
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woooh! im looking forward to seeing the secret life of the bees. i wanna see alicia keys in a different perspective, i hope she pulls this off.
Posted by gravity at January 27, 2009, 11:41 am