This past weekend I went over to amc for yet another movie.. this time starring Kirsten Dunst,Orlando Bloom,Jessica Biel and Susan Sarandon. I decided to watch Elizabethtown a long while back but kept postponing, I figured they might stop showing it if I waited another week, so I decided to go for it a day after I watched Jarhead.
Looking at it from the perspective of an average movie goeer, this movie is not meant for everyone,a boring movie by all means, But I enjoyed it! Its about a young mans journey to find the meaning of life, its about the south, the so called 'southern hospitality', Country music, Country music and.. did I say Country music?
So if you live in the south or if you love country music, or if you like Kirsten Dunst or even if you are a fan of Orlando Bloom, you will love the movie, otherwise it'd be a wise move to stay away. I decided to sit throught the movie only cos Im a fan of Kirsten Dunst.
The male lead, Bloom plays Drew Baylor who is a loser, which again I could relate to in many ways! Actually he calls himself a 'fiasco', now hopefully I wont turn into one. He plays a shoe designer who spends hundreds of millions on a shoe for nearly a decade and when the shoe debuts, it flops big time, plunging the company (An Oregon based company, they probably meant Nike!)into some serious trouble, obviously he is then fired, then he is dumped by his girlfriend, following which he turns suicidal.
Being an designer, he devices an innovative way to commit sucide, by taping a sharp knife to his excercise machine, which when moves forward will kill him! But to add to his cup of woes, just before he attempts to commit sucide he receives the sad news that his father had just died. He then has to leave to a small town in Kentucky called Elizabethtown to retrieve his fathers body. On his flight from Oregon to Louisville,KY he meets hostess Claire Colburn a die-hard optimist played by Kirsten Dunst. He unexpectedly falls in love with her and their romance helps him get his life back on track.
Critics have hit hard on this movie, I would not totally disagree with them, the movie is more like a subtle art movie, boring to most eyes, sometimes you might feel like you are taking a tour around the south or at times like watching some kind of tourism promotion documentary. But you can also notice the characters are very ordinary or uneventful, unlike the typical heros/heroines potrayed in most movies but more like the people we might meet in our day to day life, the movie captures the private emotions of the characters, overall an optimistic movie that tells you to live life to the fullest and withuot fear.
In conclusion a nice dialogue of Claire, "I'm impossible to forget, but hard to remember!" - True!
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