Tuesday, February 10, 2009

In the Valley of Elah

So, last night we watched In the Valley of Elah. It was a Sofa Cinema special - had been hanging around the house almost sent back until we bit the bullet and watched it. Very glad that we did now.

As a study of the impact of war on the young men who fight it and what happens to them afterwards it was good. What was better were the performances of the leads and the fact that this was a very human story. There was a passable detective story with some good detecting and the old trope of grizzled veteran detective changing the life of a young detective before she surrendered to cynicism.

Not quite 5 stars for me. I thought Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant - he is fast becoming a world-weary Morgan Freeman. If TLJ played god in a movie he would be tempted to give up because of the sorrow of it all.

Anyway: Bruce says 4 stars and Elaine says 5 stars. She loved it.

if it's funny enough to make me laugh out loud

funny pictures of cats with captions