It is a truth universally acknowledged that
amateur travelogues are more engrossing for the one who has traveled than for
those hailing the traveler's return. Elizabethtown is a just movie- amateur
travelogue. I have invested the "Elizabethtown" DVD box
set.
"Elizabethtown" is the kind of
film that wastes the one “F” word its rating allows on its soundtrack. But then
it’s a Cameron Crowe movie, and long before Zach Braff was kicking ass on movie
music, he was locked in a room obsessing over piles of musical snips. Actually,
while we’re talking Braff, let’s address this pic’s rather uninspiring trailers,
which make it seem a lot like a clone of Garden State. The ads aren’t
misleading, in some ways it is. But though Elizabethtown’s premise and
predilection for unique, mood-setting music gives it an outer veneer similar to
Zach Braff’s critically hugged directorial debut, the emotional impact of
Crowe’s local-boy-comes-home movie is entirely different.
It must be said that although Drew and
Claire do seem to be falling in love, life with Claire might be maddening.
She's the kind of person who would alphabetize alphabet soup. The climax of the
movie is a cross-country road journey undertaken by Drew with copious maps,
instructions and CDs supplied by Claire, who instructs Drew on exactly where to
go and what to see and who to meet and what to feel. All that redeems this
exercise in compulsion is the fact that she is right.
Elizabethtown is a moving, emotional, heart-grabbing journey; another
unconventional Cameron Crowe movie driven by relatable characters and
mood-suited music. It’s not flawless, and without so many really great
performances it could have easily turned into nothing but a bunch of
ill-fitting parts. People are going to argue that certain scenes should have
been cut; others are going to whine over the film’s to-happy-ending. But it’s a
wonderfully romantic movie that touches on loss and life.
Reblogged from http://jennyyu.edublogs.org/2013/01/11/elizabethtown-dvd-box-set-a-story-that-touches-on-loss-and-life/
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