Day 11: Gross Point Blank
- Giddy: There are some great ones here: the first time they see each other again how they kiss, the holding of the little baby Robbie at the reunion, the way he runs to save her Dad from being offed, and oh dear lord just them even playing the song “Let My Love Open the Door”. Great lines abound as well: “Its just as if everyone had swelled” when talking about their reunion, “If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you its.. well.. broken”, “You need a swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever”, “People say to forgive and forget, I say forget forgiving and learn to accept”.
- Lie: Nope, not really, part of the great humor of this piece is that he’s telling the truth to everyone but no one believes him.
- Big Emotional Outburst: There is nothing like a man screaming he’s in love with you when he has a gun in one hand, blood all over himself and a frying pan that he’s beaten a man to death with in the other. That’s love!
- Dance Sequence: The dancing at the reunion is okay- just a little embarrassing to be reminded how much white people 80’s dancing sucks.
- Wedding: We don’t have a wedding but we have a Wedding dress – which I still haven’t been able to figure out why they are there at their reunion in their wedding dress? Who gets married at their reunion? I smell a dick producer move where some producer said “You know statistically girls like to see wedding dresses in romantic comedies and don’t like to see blood so if you are going to have this much blood we need a wedding dress”. But no one explains why these 2 extras show up dressed up, its sort of just accepted, and we move on.
- Rewatchable: Yes! Yes! Yes!
- Love: Oh this love is eternal! It saves his soul, it causes him to dream of her night after night. It’s that kind of love – that kind my parents have – that kind where you meet the person wayyyy early on in life and they are just always going to be the one. Highschool sweetheart kind of love. Verrrrrrrry romantic!
- Fantasy: Sexy, brilliant man freaks out one night and finds out he’s actually perfect fit to be a trained assassin, comes back for the love of his life into sweet town and gets her back… yeah I’m saying the fantasy is pretty strong in this one too.
- Journey of the main character: Here I believe we have quite a journey, the start of a man growing a conscience over the lives he’s taken. That’s pretty deep but it’s kept light with funny side characters and love, beautiful, great chemistry love.
- BODY COUNT: 15! 6 of which are in the first minute! YAY!!!! Seriously there is nothing like a good body count when you are frustrated with your own life.
- Music Montages: I don’t quite remember there being one, but there are definitely great background songs. I was watching this movie on my computer at work and suddenly from the other room I hear one of my coworkers scream I LOVE THAT SONG!
- Strong Female: Oh yes Minnie Driver is AMAZING! Strong, cool, funny, goofy. I want to be her when I grow up. Seriously!
I know it is not part of your breakdown, but there should be a special section for him going to see his old house and its a convience store, all set to GNR's Live and Let Die. So funny. Especially when he goes inside and Live and Let Die is now a Musak version
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ReplyDeleteI wish I was there when you watched this one -- GOD I love this movie and must add it to my amazon.com wish list.
And who doesn't love a good unarmed fight choreographed to 99 Red Balloons?
This movie taught me that a pen can be a deadly weapon.