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only rarely seen; he laments at one point that within the first three months of the year, he's lost a quarter of the student body thanks both to a lack of motivation and families constantly fleeing the city.
Ultimately the film serves as a good experiment and a fascinating slice of life for people we would otherwise never see, but it ultimately doesn't give us anything to walk away with besides the obvious "we're all the same" message. I would've liked to see more of the principal, or any girls going through similar situations (the school in the film is all boys), or even a little bit more context. As is, it would probably work most effective cut down to an hour and shown on HBO.
Don't for a second get me wrong, though: despite my complaints, I would recommend this film to absolutely anyone. We need to see stories like this.
Snubbed!
Monday, April 28th
After our success at Ball Don't Lie and Savage Grace, I suppose it was to be expected that we would strike out at a premiere sooner or later.
That premiere turned out to be War, Inc., which is a bit unfortunate since I liked the movie so much (scroll down a bit further for my mini-review). John Cusack wasn't scheduled to be there, but Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff were, along with some special guests like, somewhat predictably, Haylie Duff and Tim Robbins.
Robbins was nowhere to be found. Haylie Duff rushed past us. We did get John McEnroe - yeah, he was there too for some reason – to look at us, but no interview. Some guy who supposedly was in the movie was doing interviews with everybody, but I didn't even recognize him. We caught the director, Joshua Seftel, for a quick moment and he confirmed that in the film, Dan Aykroyd was doing a take-off of Dick Cheney.
Then time ran out as the film was supposedly about to start. Hilary Duff rushed past us and into the theater. All that was left was Tomei – who then just as anxiously rushed inside, too.
We struck out. It happens. The film is still quite good and quite worth seeing.
Two Successful Premieres
Saturday, April 26th
Today held a big moment for me. At the premiere of the new sports movie Ball Don't Lie, I got to meet Emilie de Ravin.
Claire from Lost.
My favorite show of all time.
Keira Knightley was nothing compared to this. I was shaking and, as I so ineloquently put it in the video, felt like I was going to pee my pants, but I made it through the interview and only accidentally cut her off, like, once. She even said some interesting things about both the movie and Lost (although those of you hoping for major island revelations obviously don't realize how good these people have become at keeping secrets).
You can check out the video ...
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