Tag: Loneliness

  • The Social Network

    The Social Network

    It would appear that, over time, David Fincher’s Oscar-darling The Social Network has lost its luster. It was considered a Best Picture contender going into the show and ended up with a respectable, if somewhat underwhelming, 3 statuettes. And while The King’s Speech ended up taking home the award, movies like Inception, Black Swan and…

  • Oil, Blood, and Daniel Plainview’s Journey to Isolation

    Oil, Blood, and Daniel Plainview’s Journey to Isolation

    There’s a moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 epic There Will Be Blood where Daniel Plainview abandons control. The moments are sparse throughout the film, and one could even argue there aren’t any. But among the posturing and work and struggle, only once does Daniel Plainview betray his intentions in life, in work, in oil.…

  • Stevie

    Stevie

    If a play were to be written based on my life – baseless idea as that is – but if the thing were to be done, I’d probably ask for Hugh Whitemore. There is not another playwright of his ability: the detail of a historian, the brevity of a poet, the ambition of a novelist.…

  • The End of the Tour

    The End of the Tour

    Biopics are tricky things… then again The End of the Tour is not exactly that; it is not not one either, but it teeters. The biggest divergence is from the sort of hindsight we are provided with in films like Ray, or Walk the Line in which each step of the subject’s life sets them…