I saw One Battle After Another with my mom and the two of us walked out of the theater after having both cried at least three times (good tears). I dig the idea of the men’s bookclub seeing a movie that ended up being about parental instincts and their attendant follies, or somethin.
I saw it again last night after seeing it when it first came out on a date with a single mom (I needed to see that fuckin car chase/THAT UP AND DOWN THE HILLY ROAD shot agaaaain) and being close to someone who has had to handle that shit there were some devastating moments/choices/voicings that were cathartic in the classic “this is what a movie is supposed to do” way that she hadn’t seen represented so big and non-didactic.
Long way of saying I think it’s inneresting that you saw it with a men’s book club and I saw it with two different strong women and that drop into THAT Tom Petty song at the end kinda hits ya over the head in a good way. It was very cool to see it through someone else’s eyes? I think a lot of mixed families and single parents and parents in general will feel seen in a way that I haven’t seen a slapstick action movie allow.
Anybody in your men’s book club a single parent? Would be inneresting to cross-check with yr bros
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I saw One Battle After Another with my mom and the two of us walked out of the theater after having both cried at least three times (good tears). I dig the idea of the men’s bookclub seeing a movie that ended up being about parental instincts and their attendant follies, or somethin.
I saw it again last night after seeing it when it first came out on a date with a single mom (I needed to see that fuckin car chase/THAT UP AND DOWN THE HILLY ROAD shot agaaaain) and being close to someone who has had to handle that shit there were some devastating moments/choices/voicings that were cathartic in the classic “this is what a movie is supposed to do” way that she hadn’t seen represented so big and non-didactic.
Long way of saying I think it’s inneresting that you saw it with a men’s book club and I saw it with two different strong women and that drop into THAT Tom Petty song at the end kinda hits ya over the head in a good way. It was very cool to see it through someone else’s eyes? I think a lot of mixed families and single parents and parents in general will feel seen in a way that I haven’t seen a slapstick action movie allow.
Anybody in your men’s book club a single parent? Would be inneresting to cross-check with yr bros
Love yr shit, thanks Ian
and never forget Paul Thomas Anderson’s children are Minnie Riperton’s grandchildren so when you re-read this play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I3UTG1dSTc
Have you ever had a better week for gigs?
i’m sure i have at some point, but it’s been a long-ass time