Were in the fall season with a lot of movies that of course are past season to be the big summer movies but they dont have the pedigree and promotion to be Oscar bait either. So its neat to dig through em like the bargain bin the day after Halloween to see what leftovers are interesting but cheap. The last few weeks have been good for that. Here we have St. Vincent - which I didnt think was getting a wide release because it seems like most of what Bill Murray does plays the art/indy/foreign circuit - or it has the last several years. I dunno, maybe that stuff is getting to where they either feel the need to put more of that kind of movie out in the mainstream as counter-programming OR art/indy/foreign movies are getting watered-down and can play as mainstream. Aneeey way - here it is. It struck me how here in the last year Murray has stated he doesnt want to make a Ghostbusters 3 because nobody wants to see a bunch of old guys chasing ghosts. So in St. Vincent hes got a perfect vehicle to act his age in. It IS a cute, quaint, old man and boy bonding movie that does have a genuine, modern day, post economic crash, East Coast ring to the characters, their situation and the milieu it all takes place in. I have a little problem with the timeline everything takes place in - being about half the time of Naomi Watts characters pregnancy. A little slower and maybe more studied and this might be a pretty good, big city contrast with Alexander Paynes Nebraska. As it is director Melfie gives this movie a little more genuine, real-world charm of people who live their lives from check to check - as everybody in this movie is always asking each other for money for this or that. Still though the idea of giving and how it takes that giving of a village of people to make everything in a very human world go around and how people rise above that dysfunction to become and be something - divine - is all still in evidence here - despite even the movies own imperfections. Art movies challenge what we know, pop movies reinforce what we know. The key thing is relevance. In that St. Vincent ascends.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:29:51 +0000
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