Second day, second venue for the Woody Allen tour of To Rome With Love (2012). I liked it both times, but better at the Magnolia at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for $6.50. Why, I'm not entirely sure. Too many variables. I was sitting closer to the screen. The sound quality was superior. The audience was more responsive. There were negative ions from a passing thunder storm. I knew the plot and now could look at other aspects of the film. Maybe all of the above. How about you? How many times can you watch a movie? Does it matter where, or how? Have you ever seen a movie on a tiny TV screen and then later at a movie house and been blown away? I have. This is why I believe in the cinema. It's not about money at all: one can always find a good deal. It's about choice and preference. Oh yeah, and effort.
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| Alessandro Tiberi and Penélope Cruz in To Rome With Love (2012) |
It's weird because typically one can easily listen to an album or music download over and over, maybe playing the same tracks immediately in a row or maybe over several weeks or months. We might read the same book two or more times. And here I am watching the same film two days in a row in two different places. In the words of someone I overheard the other day, "Why you do that?" Free country. Better Woody Allen than a shopping mall or Wal*Mart. None-your-business, really. My life, my choice. Now, get out my way and remember this -- to thine own self be true and the devil chase the rest.
Today's Rune: Separation (Reversed).
2 comments:
Although my three companions liked this movie, I didn't much care for it. With each couple, he blamed the woman for seducing a man. Once that occurred to me, I couldn't get past it. Also there was not enough good material in any of the stories to sustain it. Disappointing after a better time in Paris last summer.
Erik, I haven't seen this one yet. But I sometimes will watch movies over and over to catch innuendos that I missed on another go 'round.
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