Another week is behind us. While the dash has been busy, I made myself watch some movies.
Edie is finally a widow after caring for her husband for many years. Thirty years prior, he wouldn’t let her go on a climbing trip with her father in the Scottish Highlands. Now that he’s gone, Edie’s daughter wants to put her in assisted living, but Edie is thinking about going on that trip. It was good.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a partially autobiographical story, was written by Jimmie Fails. He also stars in the film which is about a young man trying to take back the house in which he grew up. It was alright.
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star Ammonite. Mary Anning (Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Ronan) were real people. Anning was a famous paleontologist and Murchison was a geologist back in the day. The two did become lifelong friends. Where Hollywood comes in - Anning was a fossil-hunter, Murchison was not a geologist. The two have an affair when Murchison’s husband practically forced her to stay with Anning to recuperate from a terrible loss. It was pretty good.
MK out.
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