Let me first say something about Mystery Train again. In my opinion, one important criteria about what a good movie is how great the director/writer manages to live out the potential of a movie. Movies are a gorgeous and interesting medium with lots of specialties – and I think that Mystery Train, with its interesting storyline, sceneries and characters is one of the best examples for that.
Oh my, Allie’s accent! It’s incredible XD I can barely understand it. You really can feel that Jim J… Walsh really is was young when he created this kind of character *haha* (Unlike Broken Flower where you could literally how old he has gotten *hrr*)
What a lovely loser he is~ Haha. Apparently “About Schmidt” and “Permanent Vacation” work well together: it’s both centered about the life of protagonist. One is young and totally not bourgeois, and the other totally is, wow. With this movie, I understand so well why Harold Sakuishi likes Jarmusch so much *haha* Concerning music, they really are on the same level *g*
A propos Broken Flowers… for some reason I think that this movie is very similar to Broken Flowers. I watch both of the movies out of interest for Jim Jarmusch as a person (or: imho they’re only for hardcore fans like me), both movies are very slow paced and thus have a very boring but still a bit interesting atmosphere, they both feature incredibly horrible and annoying women – ah well X-)
The differences are interesting as well: Allie only meets new people that are all crazy, Donny only meets old ex-girlfriends that are all boring. Allie has a fucked-up life and no future, Donny has a boring life and a rather complicated past. Both the similarities and the differences make me automatically associate and compare Permanent Vacation with Broken Flowers. Even the titles are related! You know, one adjective followed by a substantive in an interesting combination *haha*
I cannot stand the laughter of that mad woman in the same room of Allie’s mother anymore. I’m glad it has just stopped. Hmm… I really think it must be difficult to play a seriously mad person.
Even though I knew that it’s his first movie, I was surprised to see that it really is only 77 minutes long. If I really have wanted to, I would have watched 3 movies in a row today.
The streets really are amazing… at least if you believe Permanent Vacation and Night on Earth. The first one shows their ugliness and the second their beauty.
Considering the fact that I am currently having a huge problem with my parents that grow older and older, I sympathize a lot with unconventional life styles right now. Even when it looks ugly to me, like in this movie.
Number of movies waiting for me: 18.