I don’t know much what this movie is about yet, but I love it already. After watching Gosford Park and 20 minutes of this movie, I think I know a bit mor what Altman movies are about… and I love them like this. It basically is a collage of portraits of people… I love it.
Somehow I think it might be interesting to try to compare this movie to Citizen Kane. They both are very sociocritical, well, not even really critical, just… an overview of society. Hm, now I could start to write an interesting and deep interpretation of both movies. But I’m too lazy for that, sorry XD
By the way, I know already that I like Gosford Park more. But only because I prefer the 1920’s England over L.A. at the end of the century. Somehow I believe a lot of things have changed since the 1990’s…
To me, the highlight of the whole movie is the dispute between Ralph and Marian. Wow, it might have happened to me, I was like… wow. It immediately made the movie a lot better. Julianne Moore and that guy were perfect in that role. This is how good actors get angry.
Of course the “other” jazz rhapsody I mean is Magnolia, a movie which I totally hate. I have read a few websites recommending Magnolia to people who like Short Cuts, but to me, it’s two totally different movies. Of course there’s also Julianne Moore in Magnolia, it’s both movies about different people’s lifes, but somehow I think Short Cuts is a lot more… real. Magnolia was just crazy, nothing more. Oh, and Magnolia is a lot about love, Short Cuts is about lifes that include love and feelings.
Oh my god, MASH is an Altman movie? Okay, I understand, I really have to watch it.
PS. I want to play cello as well.
PPS. These kinds of movies make you think your boyfriend cheats on you. Really, it’s funny, satiric and all, but showing human’s egoistic, hypocritical and dark sides is just… depressing.