Ready to find out my pick for Best Drama of 2007? Well stick around after this short commercial break:
I did this video for an upcoming sermon, so you are getting a special sneak peak (well, assuming you read this before tomorrow, the 27th).
Okay, I don't really feel like dilly-dallying today, so I'll just get right to my pick for
Best Drama of 2007
I really thought that this award was going to go to "There Will Be Blood", but I was vastly unimpressed. Sure, Daniel Day Lewis can create a character like few other, but I didn't even think he was the best actor in this film. The teenage preacher, played by Paul Dano, was easily my favorite character, as I found him to be absolutely convincing and terrifying. Part of the problem I had with this film is actually not an internal problem, but that fact that it was hyped by too many writers as a masterpiece, building up my expectations too high. But even still, it just didn't leave me thinking about anything afterwards.
Until yesterday I had decided that this award was going to "Micheal Clayton". I thought this was a well executed and acted political thriller, but I still was having a hard time calling this my favorite drama of the year. It was kinda going to win by default. But then, I watched a movie yesterday that changed everything:
"Away From Her"
This movie was stunningly well written, acted, and edited. This story was terrifyingly compelling, the actor were 100 percent believable, and the non-continuity in the editing made me giddy.
For those of you that don't know the story, here's a nutshell:
A husband has to come to terms with the fact that his wife of 40+ years has Alzheimer's and has decided to check herself into a nursing home/clinic. He is devastated by the fact that he is quickly fading from her mind, and this movie tells the story of his coping with the loss of those memories they share.
I found this story "terrifyingly compelling" on several levels. First, I pray to God that this does not happen to me. I can't imagine loving someone who doesn't remember that they feel the same way.
Second, this movie reminded me of something that happened when I was a kid.
When I was about 13 my neighbor shot his wife and then shot himself. He left a note saying that the reason he did so was because you was developing Alzheimer's and he couldn't stand to see her suffer.
Now, I am by no means condoning his actions, but this film made me understand why he would feel such desperation. But this film also showed what it means to truly love someone with this disease, even as difficult as demonstrating what that love may be.
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That movie sounds so depressing. I have heard some people say the same thing about There will be blood but I disagree. The themes of this movie were well done and I think deserving of the praise it received. I am not sure if I agree with you on Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano. I just can’t decide which one did a better job. There were some scenes (like in the church with the lady with arthritis) that I am thinking “wow” but then I remember Daniel Day Lewis character development throughout the entire movie and I think “wow”
I can’t decide.
"I can't imagine loving someone who doesn't remember that they feel the same way." Are you kidding me, Justin? How many times have you replaced me? Bailey Jones? Ringing a bell? I'm not even going to bring up my journal from '04.
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