Yeah, those British guys all look the same.

(Oddly, and tellingly, I think you're right-- I confused one for the other.)

Weird...I'm currently working with a client in a restaurant while listening to Vedder's soundtrack on the sound system. It is great.

Gotta' contend that Chris' story was a textbook case of escaping from one's life. He disowns everything associated with his life to that point, including his own name, running from anyone who gets close during his journey, and all in service of an ostensible quest to discover something that never completely arrives. His experiences were less about discovering than hiding; each time he got close to someone, he left. He didn't nourish himself on each experience but, instead, abandoned it in favour of moving onto his next destination.

Despite the beautiful places he went, and despite the many fringe characters he met and befriended, his emotional starvation was even more profound than his physical malnourishment.

His realization that happiness was only real when shared came somewhat late in the game.

One line film reviews:

Rendition; not as extraordinary as it should be.

The film would have been better without the standard, Hollywood, bolt-on melodrama.

Damn, that was two lines.

....BTW, I noticed Charlie Musselwhite's harmonica credit at the end. He's a longtime favorite of mine.

Lust, Caution is a rich story and a fitting next step in Ang Lee's career. For anyone willing to do a little legwork, there's a thought-provoking narrative layered in the complexities of life, and attraction, and war. I highly recommend it.

I do too, Lady.......very much so. It's a fitting follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.......a short story is the germ......an anxiety fraught sexual relationship the soil. I thought of Last Tango in Paris and Black Book.

I think the reviewers had the problem of having to put things into words too quickly. This is a story of what sex expresses and what it gives birth to and a realization of what love is. This is a story of two people living in a period of history and place where violence is the option chosen and the scars are evident.

I have to say it was unsettling to realize that Tony Leung (impossibly hot in 2046, also) resembles Barack O.

This weekend: No Country For Old Men. Read the book if you can-- brilliant. The casting by the Coens is really good, but Javier Bardem as Chigurh is way out of left field. I'm eager to see how it works out.

Both Stephanie and Manhola pan Lions for Lambs.