Just finished watching "Broken Flowers". It was good, a dark comedy and sad but light take at the life of a ageing bachelor, who has some reputation of being Don Juan. All of a sudden he gets a letter in Pink, from an ex-flame, saying that he is father of a 19 year old guy, who is out on a crazy road trip trying to find him. We never know who sent the letter, he never finds the son. But that is not the point of the movie.
The things to watch out for, stellar performance from Bill Murray, A short appearance from Sharon Stone (I cannot not mention her, am her big fan, after all which other star is a MENSA member and can discuss Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, on TV, wearing a see through shirt :-) ). The conflict going on in Don's (Bill Murray), how he hopes that he will find his son, how he disbelieves the letter as a prank, but something inside him wants him to believe that he belongs, something inside him desperately wants to change the situation he is in. His fear of commitment, but still his quest to find the ultimate commitment.
Don's Interaction with all his past girlfriends and what it does to them and to him, the uncomfortable silence, the uncomfortable ambiance, the feeling of not belonging to anyone from his past. The realization that past is really just past and nothing more, and yet the compulsive optimism, in fact wishful optimism of finding a future in past.
What this movie really symbolizes is what we all go through in life, chasing the demons of past, hoping for forgiveness and a calm to descend onto us, so that we can live our lives without any grudges. It also symbolizes the unrelenting hope, hope that life will turn out better, better than what it has been so far :-)
I think I am making no sense anymore.
So off I go to the land of nod.
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~asto' ma sat gamaya
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