Reflections in the Mud

Recently I went to a screening of an independent film that had a cameo appearance by a friend of mine. Kerri my faithful friend decided to join me on the trip to park city. A city in which neither of us was accustomed. After taking advice from a lady with a British accent, which gave her away as a non-local....we luckily found our way around the city to watch the movie. The following is my thoughts on the film. Not that I am especially qualified in this area of expertise but I have found of late that if you express your opinion with confidence and the air of knowledgablity the majority of people believe you to be the last standing expert in that particular field. That's the easy part, the hard part is keeping up the act.

Anyways, the film, ah yes....as me and the brilliant Kerri discussed the film on the way home. We started out with a bleak review of a film that showed brilliance in idea's and invention but seemed to lack the capability to capture and hold the attention of its audience. But as we further discussed the progression of the film. I came to realize that the movie had an interesting genre that I had not expected to show itself. I came to expect as most of us would expect of a thriller romantic movie, a shoot em' up, blow em' to pieces and a romance smushed in the cracks. My expectations were a bit off. The movie seemed to focus more on the romantic side of the things a progression of the relationship between the main characters and instead of the mushy stuff as the buffers to the action scenes the action was the buffers to the mushy stuff. At first critical of this approach because I, like I am sure most Americans have come to expect what Hollywood feeds to us ACTION! but it was not always so. The great era of "Casa Blanca" and "Gone with the Wind" was much more centered on the love instead of the action. Now I wouldn't necessarily compare reflections in the mud with the great classics mentioned above but it has reinvented a genre that has been dwindled out by the James Bond, Terminator, Batman era of action adventure. A redeeming quality of sorts, Reflections in the mud anwsers the infamous question, "Where is the love?"

An interesting statement of society that we now expect guns and explosions over love. It makes me wonder if Hollywood effects the state of affairs as we know it or if the state of our society effects Hollywood. That might be a subject better consider by some one more qualified.......I will write a blog about it later.

Admittedly I fall into the trap of modern day aggression there is nothing like the sound of a racking slide on a gun that gets my little heart twitter patting. And explosions! well really who doesn't like explosions. Even those professed peace-makers, I am sure have rooted on an occasion to see a nuclear warehouse get obliterated. So in the end I respect the great work that went into the production and the difficulty of even making a production of that magnitude is very impressive. My only suggestion is that, It was once that love selled in Hollywood but in this generation it is gun racking and explosions.