{"id":406,"date":"2009-08-04T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2009-08-06T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:06:05","slug":"star-trek-and-the-brothers-bloom-at-the-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/08\/04\/star-trek-and-the-brothers-bloom-at-the-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek and The Brothers Bloom at the Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ali, Amber, and I went to The Cinema Theatre<\/a><\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a> (957 South Clinton Ave.<\/a>) to see Star Trek<\/a><\/strong>. As you might expect, it's a decent movie and an innovative way to kick-start the franchise once again. Ali and I enjoyed it and I think Amber did too although she had some complaints. Anyway, they left and I stayed for the second feature: a movie I'd heard nothing about called The Brothers Bloom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Apparently it came-and-went from The Little<\/a><\/strong> (240 East Ave.<\/a>) and possibly corporate screens as well, all with little fanfare. Reviews have been lukewarm at best. My mood was to give it a try at the beginning, and my alternative was to meet Ali out at Lux Lounge<\/a><\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a> (666 South Ave.<\/a>): a not unattractive option.<\/p>\n

Well, I figured I'd hang through the \"early days\" introduction: two brothers, Stephen and Bloom, had been in-and-out of foster families for quite some time when they stumbled into the notion of playing cons. I didn't know if I was in for a kids movie but I figured I'd linger to the credits. Once the relationship was established, the film heads for 25 years in the future when the brothers are adults, and still con-men.<\/p>\n

Ok, so it's hooked me for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Bloom doesn't want to stick with the game after their last job, but his brother ropes him in it for one more: woo a naive heiress — Penelope — living alone in her parents' estate. She's a handful, though, as she has a surprisingly fierce appetite for adventure (especially considering her apparently self-imposed exile) and she's extremely smart in a myriad of practical and philosophical fields.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the movie runs along in a whimsical fairy-tale style. The simple surface conceals a more interesting philosophical bent: is it valuable to plan ahead? As such, the story — largely led by the plan crafted by Stephen — leads Bloom and Penelope on what should be a romantic and bond-forming adventure. But it's only in the fringe deviations from said plan that those things actually occur. I've found it's pretty much the same in life: it's no the planned trip to Chimney Bluffs State Park<\/a><\/strong> (7700 Garner Rd.<\/a>, Wolcott) that I remember as much as it is when Lucy ran her hysterical orbits through the muddy waters along the trail. It's the unplanned moments that make things worthwhile.<\/p>\n

So … why plan?<\/p>\n

And I think that's what The Brothers Bloom is getting at. To speak in music reviewer parlance, it's sort of Hudson Hawk<\/a><\/strong> meets Adaptation.<\/a><\/strong> meets The Adventures of Baron Munchausen<\/a><\/strong>: the lighthearted comedy and uneven production of the first, with the film-as-life-as-film metaphor of the second, and the attention to detail and understanding of fantasy of the third. It's not the best movie ever, but definitely worth a visit … hang in there the few times it really lags, and just have a good time with it.
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Ali, Amber, and I went to The Cinema Theatre (957 South Clinton Ave.) to see Star Trek. As you might expect, it's a decent movie and an innovative way to kick-start the franchise once again. Ali and I enjoyed it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,21],"tags":[1227,58,1220,442,1223,186,1226,1229,1224,1221,1228,1222,1225],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-movies","tag-adaptation","tag-ali","tag-amber","tag-cinema","tag-con-artists","tag-film","tag-hudson-hawk","tag-metaphor","tag-plans","tag-star-trek","tag-the-adventures-of-baron-munchausen","tag-the-brothers-bloom","tag-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}