David Given Schwarm

you know I have been thinking a lot about this movie, but I have not made much progress. It seems to be more compassionate the more I think about it, which is weird, because when I walked out of the theater I am pretty sure that I hated all mankind.

Jennifer Jason Leigh completely steals this film – she is absolutely amazing. But the fact that the movie starts in the middle, has a main character who keeps changing identities, deals with religious extremism, sexism, and just about every other human cruelty that I can imagine, does not have much of a plot or story structure; I find it remarkable that I can somehow come away from this film with some sense of human progress.

For some reason this movie gives me hope in humanities ability to adapt, to grow, to use reason, to somehow learn or something. I am not sure where I get this, becuase it definitely is not happening on the screen. I either brought this optimism to the theater with me or else the soundtrack was really really good.