Beyond Borders

Oh I hated the end of this one. I saw this movie the same week I saw The Girl in the Cafe, and then the Live8 broadcast (last year)... good timing. A lot of depressing information all at once. This movie (Beyond Borders) seemed conflicted between trying to be an ill-fated love story, and a wake-up call regarding what's going on in the world. Which was it supposed to be? Both? It was ok. More impact the first time I saw it, and the second time, much less. I started to think about how fitting it was that Angelina Jolie made the film to begin with (she is the UN Ambassador after all) but her character in the movie seemed a bit... off. Maybe it's just me. I saw this twice. Some of the visuals are hard to forget, whether they were real or not.

Cold Mountain

Very depressing. If this is how things were back then I don't see how anyone survived. An Englishmen and an Australian woman both faking southern accents-- that was interesting. They did it well enough.

This movie left me feeling gypped.

Why did Inmen go up that mountain to go home to her? The only way there, and back, is that one road and she was only up there because of the news Georgia brought that morning (which he couldn't have known). And why was Georgia allowed to live? The confederate cowards were murdering all war deserters (not themselves of course), why did they say that 'Georgia says you was up here' and yet, they didn't kill him? (Why did Georgia live? Because he wasn't all there?)

Two weeks after seeing this movie I still wondered about the glaring inconsistencies. Depressing movie. Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Natalie Portman, Kathy Baker, the entire cast really, were all very good, and worth seeing in this. Despite the inconsistencies and unanswered questions.

I used to think I was born in the wrong era. I'm sure glad I wasn't born into that one. You too?