Weekend Update
1. Boss and I watched The Bridge this weekend. I think that may be the quietest we’ve been during a movie. It was…troublesome. Difficult to watch those people stand on the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge and then climb over and simply jump. The singlemindedness of it…it was…sort of miserable. But the film was good and worth watching, in my opinion, for the simple reality of it all.
2. The Chicago Marathon was today. We live along the course and heard many, many ambulances go by. One person died in the heat. I recall last year as I watched, a woman asked me to tie her shoes for her because her fingers were stiff from the cold. Welcome to Chicago.
3. Boss has her first cold of the season. I casually mentioned making her chicken noodle soup and she responded, optimistically, “with homemade noodles?!” I’ve never made a noodle before but hell, at 7 this morning, I made some noodles before heading to the grocery store and picked up a baguette. She’s still sick. What the hell? Those were homemade noodles.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Ah, the bridge is on my list of movies to see. The creepiness of the whole thing really makes me interested in it for whatever reason
March 8th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I added this to netflix after reading your post. Just watched it last night! *shiver* I wasn’t expecting a romantic comedy, but somehow I didn’t think they would really show the actual jumping. We couldn’t figure out how they were filming it, until watching the extras. It never occurred to me that they would have just filmed the bridge for a year.
I held my breath every time they cut to shots of the bridge. Some were so tragic, but others, I felt glad for their suffering to end. Disturbing, but good.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Hi, Krystie Lee. It’s really a film like no other, isn’t it? I know I was sort of shocked to think I was watching someone’s death on screen. When the film shows them on the bridge, it is almost like they are still alive and seeing them plunge seems so final. Makes you want to back up the film and un-see.