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Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Why We Ride

Deb hasn't seen it yet       Me 10

No, I'm not just handing out 10s these days, I'm just writing about the 10s as they come to me. This is a documentary about why people ride motorcycles. It isn't so much about the activity of riding, but the motivations and responses to riding. First off, this is one of the prettiest movies I've seen in a long time. There's a lot of talking heads and each one is lit beautifully. In fact every scene is lit with the light of a master, really a great looking film, and this is a documentary, not a Hollywood production. There are action scenes of course and a couple of them portray speed as well as I've ever seen and the slo-mo work is just spectacular. If there's any problem with this movie it might be that it is so sincere it borders on being sappy. But it doesn't quite get there, and proves to be a great study of human qualities. Look for it on the big screen, video will only be a pale reminder of how pretty a movie it is.
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