I've been pretty busy(shockingly) as of late. I've stumbled into this semi-lucrative flash website design gig, something that I would never of thought I'd be doing, and it's taken its toll on my patience on more than one occasion. But the good news is once I get it down it should be easy income with minimal hours and I can do it from anywhere as long as my partner in crime keeps them clients lined up.
Last night, although 30 minutes into Zardoz starring the great Sean Connery, I chose to start another movie that I got via Netflix called Junebug. This one intrigued me because it was about a fish out of water of sorts coming to meet her husband's Southern Family. And me being in sort of that position when I lived in Georgia decided it would be interesting to watch if for nothing else to see how closely it represented real people.
While not an exaggeration of southern culture, it had hints of stereotypes but, at no point was it mocking or misrepresenting anything and for that I am grateful. Some of the character arcs were a little too subtle, the brother's especially. The whole movie he's silent and angry except at the end when he tells his wife that he wants to try and have another baby out of the blue.
I don't feel like I really got to know these people other than the main character who was the least interesting of them all. And that is a shame. None of the Family really broke from their mold. I'm not sure if it was due to poor directing, casting or writing but what you see in the first five minutes is what you get for the rest of the film for the most part.
I don't think it was a bad movie, maybe a little slow, and maybe a little too dramatic at times, if it wasn't for Amy Adams' character the whole movie might have worn on me. But as it stands there's not a bad taste in my mouth.
6/10
