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Review & a Rant
Jun. 7th, 2005 08:19 amWatched The Aviator over the last couple of nights - I'd meant to see this in the theatres, but never got around to it.
Pretty pretty airplanes! Shiny aeroplanes! Yum!
Erm.
I've always held that DiCaprio (1)is a good actor with an unfortunate fan base (teen girls), and (2) is not actually pretty, but interesting to look at. I also think he's better playing messed-up people.
Himself, I think, was even more impressed than I was (he called it "Citizen Plane"), but a bit shaken by the portrayal of OCD, which came a bit close to home for him. I could see him wince in sympathy every time Hughes had to deal with something that set him off (and I think he really wanted to hit Katherine Hepburn's family). I appreciated the script for admitting (as does Dan Ireland's excellent and neglected film The Whole Wide World, about Robert E. Howard) that love, however sincere, does not cure mental illness. There are too many movies where all someone needs is the love of a good wo/man; in real life, you can't make someone better like that, you can just do you best to help them cope; and the two of you will still have to keep dealing with the symptoms "on an ongoing basis..."
Sorry, end of personal rant.
4 days till the wedding :-)
Pretty pretty airplanes! Shiny aeroplanes! Yum!
Erm.
I've always held that DiCaprio (1)is a good actor with an unfortunate fan base (teen girls), and (2) is not actually pretty, but interesting to look at. I also think he's better playing messed-up people.
Himself, I think, was even more impressed than I was (he called it "Citizen Plane"), but a bit shaken by the portrayal of OCD, which came a bit close to home for him. I could see him wince in sympathy every time Hughes had to deal with something that set him off (and I think he really wanted to hit Katherine Hepburn's family). I appreciated the script for admitting (as does Dan Ireland's excellent and neglected film The Whole Wide World, about Robert E. Howard) that love, however sincere, does not cure mental illness. There are too many movies where all someone needs is the love of a good wo/man; in real life, you can't make someone better like that, you can just do you best to help them cope; and the two of you will still have to keep dealing with the symptoms "on an ongoing basis..."
Sorry, end of personal rant.
4 days till the wedding :-)
