Saturday, April 15, 2006
bee season
i watched bee season [a movie based on myla goldberg's book] last night. it's kind of confusing, so stay with me as i try to explain the movie. at first i thought it was a movie about an attack on people by a swarm of deranged honeybees. weird, i know, but it can happen. turns out i was...not right. okay..the movie opens showing eliza naumann's surprising ability to spell any word given to her, no matter how complex. as she proceeds to the national spelling bee, her father [richard gere] gets obsessed with helping her win, and is confident that her spelling abilities have become a sort of spiritual channel in communicating with God, a teaching known as Kabbalah. meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, their family is growing more and more dysfunctional, as each has his own secret to guard. miriam [juliette binoche], haunted by frequent lapses into the past, has grown fond of breaking into people's houses and collecting, magpie-like, trinkets that she is convinced will help her "hold the light of God", a religious concept she picked up from her husband, or tikkun olam, which means collecting shards to reunite and repair the world. aaron, their son, on the other hand, has grown confused of his father's ideas about God and tries to find a way to connect with Him. he meets a mysterious woman in a park, chali [kate bosworth], who introduces him to Hare Krishna, a Hindu religious sect devoted to worshipping the Hindu god Krishna. so basically, that was the plot of the movie. i know my blog's turning into this one big home reading report that doesn't seem to end, and i apologize for that. haha...with nothing to do, all i can seem to do is watch and critique movies. i just hope i don't run out of good movies to watch. okay, so back to the movie. i was confused most of the time the movie was playing until the end, when everything from miriam's odd behavior [it was a mental problem] to why saul naumann grew obsessed over helping his daughter was explained. i looked up bee season's reviews on the internet [halatang wala na talagang magawa] and they didn't really receive much praise for it. i think that the movie was divided into too many parts, like eliza and her father's story, then miriam's, then aaron's, that it would become all jumbled up and the viewer would only grow even more confused when in fact, they were already confused by the information overload from the previous scenes. try seeing it yourself. :)see the world through a kaleidoscope of colors...
written at 5:32 AM
