St. Vincent
This movie was totally a tearjerker, just like “The boat that rocked”. I can’t help tearing up when I see something designed to be touching, but sometimes the rational part of myself knows that this is totally idiotic. On some level, I found almost everything in “St. Vincent” revolting, and it blows my mind how the movie managed to get Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd to play in this film. I don’t understand Hollywood.
So here we have a world in which somehow being a prostitute is a bad thing, but enjoying sex with one is somehow OK, being a soldier makes you a hero and washing your demented wife’s laundry is too (even though you keep having sex with prostitutes). Being grumpy to people, drinking alcohol and going to horse races makes you bad, but not bad beyond redemption. Sadly I don’t remember all the details, but most of all I remember that I wasn’t bothered by how the film was made or how the story was told… It was rather that aspects of the story just bothered me. In my book, the moral of the story was a very conservative one and the world it is set in calls for openness but fails to hide its own narrow views on what makes a “good” or a “bad” person. I didn’t really like that part.
Other than that, Bill Murray is as much fun as he always has been! I always thought the film was enjoyable, I just couldn’t relate to its message.