Do NOT burn after watching....

Last night, I went to see Burn After Reading. Here is my short but sweet review.

First off... I give it 4 out of 5 stars. PLEASE note, this is NOT an 8/10 but a 4/5. 8/10 sounds so much worse than 4/5. But I digress.

Plot: So weird and kooky but really intricate and excruciatingly funny. It's not even a plot that is easy to explain. The CIA get's rid of Cox citing a drinking problem. He then decides he would be a consultant and write a memior.... you know what? There isn't a point to attempting to describe the plot and still leave you wanting to see the movie (which you should). Key words: Gore, shock, disgust, sex, murder, adultery, vanity, stomach splitting lines and paranoia all in a dark comedy. If that sounds even MILDLY interesting... go to it.

Characters: Brad Pit annoys me JUUUST a little but I couldn't look my trainer in the eye without laughing and only barely overcame the huge urge to call him Chad. And Harry (George Clooney's Character) was wonderful. He played him with style and finesse. I was extremely impressed. Harry is a sex maniac, liar, paranoid and anxiety filled man. Yes... Clooney played him! And again... when on the treadmill today, I had to hold in the urge to text my movie going friend "Bet I can still get a run in". You have to see it to understand.

So go... see it.

Shopgirl

Shopgirl is a great movie. I haven't seen it in so long. Today as I was getting ready for the gym and came upon this movie on the TV listings.

This movie makes me feel happy. Smiling on the elliptical happy. But the reality is that I watch the entire movie to feel the way that Mirabelle feels so that when the last monologue is said, it means something:

Ray Porter:
As Ray Porter watches Mirabelle walk away
he feels a loss.
How is it possible,
he thinks,
to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her.
Only then does he realize
that wanting part of her
and not all of her
hurt them both
and how he cannot justify his actions except that... well...
it was life.

Shivers! I have watched this movie about twice in a year and a half. And each time that monologue makes me think of different situations and different people. Today it just made me smile.

What in the world?

LEt's be honest. I am only this blubbering idiot right now because I have been watching the Notebook. I cry when the title of this movie comes on and then I cry about 18 times throughout the movie. It's the single most romantic movie I have ever seen and I only hope that I meet a man that loves me half as much as Noah loves Allie.

Live and love is so confusing. I don't know what to think. I have felt this way about 3 people in my life - including this one and not one has ever been my boyfriend. And all three three are still in my life and pop up at the strangest times. Being single, I feel like I am exactly in the same drama that I was in when I met my x. It was like nothing happened - no time had passed.

eh... as Allie says in The Notebook "I am a stupid woman" but for now being stupid feels really good. I'll sit here being stupid until someone who makes me smart again comes along! :)