It was a bad day at the movies and I loved it
The Mill Valley Film Festival was winding down and it seemed a darn shame not to experience the annual autumn movie marathon. There is nothing else in the theaters right now and going to see the premiere of TRUST by local filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto and the MVFF's screening of 127 HOURS by Oscar winner Danny Boyle, seemed like a no brainer in a town too cute to be real. What I wasn't prepared for was the physical impact of both these films. I haven't had the sensation that I wanted to run out of the theater mid-movie since seeing GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Now, mind you, just like the aforementioned 1994 film, these are good films. Nothing flagrant or gratuitously violent about them -- just hard to watch. Maybe it was because I knew what was coming, so that anticipation of where things were going drove me crazy. Plus, in both cases, the filmmakers didn't keep the plot line secret. 127 HOURS is based on the memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralst...