“I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run.”
— Soundgarden
During a trip to New York last week, filmmaker James Bai gave me a screener of his film Puzzlehead and asked me to give him some feedback.
After viewing it twice and discussing my thoughts with him, he requested that I post my initial interpretation of the story on IMDb.com, as well as on this site.
There are lots of people that need to see this film, and the way to do that is to get it out there beyond the film festivals. As the distribution deal is being cut, fans of this inevitable cult classic are already talking about online. The buzz is getting louder.
This post is my own contribution to the film, submitting my own thoughts to its layer of the blogosphere. Below is a Copy/Paste of some of the feedback I sent to James in an email.
*** WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW ***
In the spirit of Primer and Pi, Puzzlehead’s bound to be an instant classic with the audience that loves these types of movies. You know a movie’s exceptional when you get to the end and the first thing you want to do is see it again. I watched it yesterday. Twice.
So where do I start? [click to continue…]
“The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them into shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
— Shakespeare, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
I’ve often said I’d rather live in a shack by the sea than a castle in the desert. Well, here’s a nice one. This was shot nearby at our cove below Trump’s golf course.
It’s something typical you’ll see the community do every couple months or so, using whatever debris happens to be laying around. Sticks, shells, crates, rocks, etc. It’s all about teamwork.
You can see here in the fourth pic that Vive’s making his own contribution.
“Put simply, I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage — self-destructive, destroy-the-world rage — and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”
— Sidney Poitier
Well, I’m back from my trip to New York, which proved to be killer on a few different levels. So much to say, and so many to thank. I suppose a good start would be to give props to McSorley’s Ale, which kept my hops on for about a week. Nice balance, not too fat, and bitter enough keep my mind of my beloved Sierra Nevada. Not to mention it was on sale at ShopRite.
