Reminiscin: My Favorite Flicks Of 2009 Was:
January 25th, 2010 | Published in Moving Imagery, The Terror That Is Childhood
- Up In The Air, which teaches us that no one believes in Love. (I disagree with this thesis, but who am I to argue with the walking cellular mound of excellence that is George Clooney? Also, Vera Farmiga is hypnotizing, not to mention smokin’.) Points for words, and for the cowboyish commercial pilot.
- Inglourious Basterds, which teaches us that the Nazis were the bad guys. Points for lols, lulz, “The Bear Jew,” &c.
- The White Ribbon, which teaches us to fear the children, who want to murder us. Oh, God, how they want to murder us— Points for creepy historical accuracy, making a straightforwardly nice-guy protagonist work, and the Lynchian/dreamlike disappearance of the characters, amid the violence of youth, on the eve of the dream- and youth-shattering War.
