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Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
GenX Recommended.
I recently rewatched this film. A bit dated, but the simple dialogue and the innocence of young love and lust is captured so beautifully on screen. Rewatching it gave me immense nostalgia for how I felt as a young woman wanting to kiss that first boy I was in love with. I got goosebumps and tears. They did so well. I didn't think I would be as moved as I was all these years later. But something about the south. Something about the simplicity, the age of innocence, and the actress being the girl next door. No Hollywood beauty and no cleavage necessary to depict a palpable sexual attraction between two young want to be lovers.
Ahava Zot Lo Hayta (2020)
A Must See, Underrated, Documentary.
If you allow yourself to disengage from everything but this story alone, you will find yourself in a place the mind had not gone before. "Love" amidst death and cruelty? It seems at first to be selfish and without conscience but that is far, far from the reality. The suffering as a result of saving some and not others, the suffering as a result of feeling something possibly "good" when there was nothing good to be felt, the suffering well after the liberation of the camps and for the remainder of her life and others lives. But, who, in her same shoes may not have done the same. I stumbled upon this documentary after watching the critically acclaimed and super hyped 2023 film, "The Zone of Interest". While I understand the premise of that film and its intent, it did not move me nearly as this film; nor did it evoke every possible human emotion as this documentary did.
If you are an empath, you will come away from this documentary exhausted; but appreciative for the perspective on human suffering, its forced ironies and the beauty, albeit unfathomable, of the song she chose to sing that initiated a relationship that would save her life.
One Night Stand (1997)
Disappointing
One would think with this interesting cast, this flick would have been at the very least, "rent worthy". Was very disappointed in the lack of depth to the characters and relationships. Not one grabbed me enough to care what happened to any of them---the relationships and characters themselves.
The opening 5 minutes was the best of the film and then it just dragged on from that point forward. There was no credible chemistry between any of the characters, which was a shame. The only reason to rent this film is to see Ming Na's breasts, if that's what you fancy; otherwise, I wouldn't even bother. (And I love Robert Downey Jr. as an actor; but this was definitely not one of his best roles.)