Sunday, August 21, 2005

Broken Flowers and Bill Murray

Now, if you are looking to be rewarded like you were in Lost in translation by some titillation. You will be. If you are looking for mid America scenery you will notice that most of the landscape Bill's characters traverses looks suspiciously like Jersey or somewhere off the Sawmill Parkway or GSP as he tracks down ex girlfriends. If you are looking for some resolve other than the basic mantra to live in the now. Don't go. Stay where you are. Broken Flowers erges you to run away from your same old way of doing things. Don't be the idiot that stood up at the end asking for his money back, when nothing gets resolved in the same old Hollywood fashion. Take a moment because you are never going to find out which of his 20 years worth of ex's and plife atterns sends him on his quest.