When: 5/8:15 P.M. on Saturday, February 20, 2016
Who With: JL for Theeb, then JL, KC, JC, and AC
Movie Count: Theeb gets us to 15, The Witness doesn't count as part of the Roxy membership
Snacks: pizza at the Bridge after the Lady Griz beat the Bobcats in a great back and forth game. Then we got butter chicken poutine and matar paneer at Masala's first late night window!
Reaction: Theeb is the second movie we've seen from the foreign film nominations for the Oscars and, in my mind, doesn't win against Mustang. Son of Saul is coming to the Roxy next weekend and I think we'll get Embrace the Serpent, though I don't see it on the calendar yet.Theeb is beautiful, fascinating and some parts riveting, other parts sleepy. It is set in 1916 during the Arab Revolt during the Ottoman Empire. An Englishman joins young Theeb's Bedouin tribe and requests their guidance to the Iron Donkey trail, newly constructed train tracks. The journey through the desert is not easy, shots are fired, alliances form and break, and sand and flies abound.
The Witness is a corrective step in the Kitty Genovese story of 38 witnesses to her murder not calling the police and the parable for America's apathy, which may not be so truly apathetic. Kitty's younger brother explores the original reporting and and talks to anyone and everyone he can about what happened that night fifty years ago. It's an interesting story that we were still talking about the next day. In the recent wave of true crime, this film doesn't quite complete the pivot of revelation it sets up. Anyway, the ultimate moral of the Kitty Genovese case is that if you see or hear something, say something. In a non-big brothery way, we're all in the together and we can have an affect on the lives around us.Recommendation: Let’s Go! | Let both come to you | Let it pass
Next Up: The Big Short
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