Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Lost: The Finale


ETA: This wasn't supposed to get so long, but I had a lo
t to say, so read in increments if necessary.

I haven't been writing much about Lost lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been watching. The problem is, recapping every episode is just so draining because that show was completely PLOT PLOT PLOT this season and trying to sift through the meanings and surprises every week was just too much - more strenuous than just picking Chuck's best outfit, for example. But I've been riveted and totally enjoyed the season. I just hope that next year slows down just a little bit and focuses on character a little more. That would make me happy.


With that in mind, what do we all think about the game-changing season finale? Or was it even game changing? One of the initial complaints I read about the finale was that after Juliet hits the bomb, the show fades to white and there's no "skipping ahead, we have to go back to the island Kate, OMG that's Locke in the coffin" kind of moment. We can't really speculate as to what might happen, or what might have happened, because we didn't get a little peek at what next season entails. I didn't see this at first - there's plenty to guess about with NotLocke and Jacob and "the incident" - but the truth is we have absolutely no idea what's coming. There were no clues.

For example, Miles could be totally and completely right: maybe them setting off the bomb is what causes the damaging, plane-crash inducing energy in the first place. In which case, nothing changes. They just set in motion what was already going to happen. But then the story doesn't move because they all either die in 1977, or they don't, but the past doesn't get rewritten. I doubt this is the way it will go because if setting off the bomb is the actual catalyst for the future, and not the source of it's change, then that means Juliet, Sayid and most likely (because of their proximity to the bomb) Jack, Kate and Sawyer are all dead, yo. They're not killing off half the main cast in 1977 if they're not bringing them back at LAX in 2004. Also, the bomb could have blown up the entire island (possible?) and that kills 90% of the original Lostaways. The bomb had to have changed something in the future.


But what does that mean? Desmond no longer comes to the island? Juliet is still stuck working on the Others' fertility issues? Or did the Others all blow up too? Will Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Hurley get off the plane in 2004 not knowing each other, but feeling some inexplicable pull to one another? Does this mean we'll be seeing Boone, Shannon, Michael, Ana Lucia, Libby, Mr. Eko, Claire and Charlie again? (Maybe Daniel, please? And how would they recast young Walt?) Will the original cast all be called back to work? Cause I see only two possibilities: Either the bomb worked and they do end up back at the beginning (everyone), or it didn't and Sawyer, Kate, Jack, Hurley, Jin and Miles are still stuck in 1977 trying to find another way back to Sun, NotLocke and Ben in 2007. But I just don't see that happening. Especially if it means Sayid and Juliet (and Locke?) stay dead. Basically it's impossible to know how to discuss next season and it's possibilities until we know what that bomb actually did. (Although, if it did work and they all land in LAX, it won't be about the island anymore. Will Jacob be coming by, somehow drawing them all to the island another way? Will they have strange dreams? Or will the plane crash on Craphole island anyways - without Desmond's button-not-pushing energy pulse? I just don't see how this will happen and it's driving me nuts!)


Mystery crap aside, I thought the episode was pretty well-done, with one glaring exception: character motivations! It's all well and good for the love triangle/quadrangle to be alive and very present in the 1977 happenings. And for the most part, I think it's been well-handled. I understand the confusion Kate and Sawyer feel about seeing each other again - both still have feelings but Sawyer obviously loves Juliet and is committed to her regardless of his feelings for Kate, and Kate is reeling from the confusion of her relationship with Jack and grieving the loss of Aaron (btw, thanks for finally doing the right thing in that regard, Kate. I almost liked you for minute) - I love that Juliet and Kate are being very mature with each other and not on the verge of a passive aggressive catfight every minute, and most of Jack and Sawyer's pissing contest has had more to do with their leadership roles than any kind of fight over Kate or Juliet. Basically, I like that these relationship ties are present, but aren't overwhelming the show at every turn.


Which is why Jack and Juliet's motivations in the finale pissed me off so badly. It's all well and good for Juliet to notice the lingering attraction between Kate and Sawyer, but does it have to be the catalyst for all of her decisions involving detonating a hydrogen bomb. There were plenty of reasons for both stopping Jack and helping Jack and none of them had to do with Kate and Sawyer:

  • Pros for Stopping Jack: He doesn't know what he's doing and is reacting to a lack of purpose and destiny, he may very well cause the event he's trying to stop, he may blow up the entire island pointlessly killing thousands of innocent people (i.e. children and spouses of Dharma Initiative assholes, Rose and Bernard - btw, thanks for finally showing us what happened to them!).
  • Pros for Helping Jack: Daniel was right, the entire destiny of the passengers of Oceanic #815 has been caught in a bloodbath between Charles Widmore, Benjamin Linus and the mysterious deity of Jacob, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and everyone else were never supposed to come to the island so it is only right to stop the cycle before half of them die.

Do you see "Because Sawyer still kind of has feelings for Kate" on that list, Juliet? No.

But Juliet's reasons for initially helping Kate stop Jack seeme
d to be that she wanted Kate and Jack out of their hair so she and Sawyer could escape without guilt, and her reason for the sudden about face was that Sawyer looked at Kate and Juliet realized she didn't want to one day lose him to her. AHHHHH!!!! Why writers??? I think rather than have Juliet shift allegiances so quickly based on a look, it would have been perfectly reasonable for her to notice the looks between Kate and Sawyer, say nothing about them, and instead be swayed while talking to Sayid and Hurley (while Jack and Sawyer are talking in the woods), because Sayid could certainly explain the pros of the Help Jack plan more clearly than Jack (even with a bullet in his gut) and Hurley could bring up the possibility of having his friends Claire, Charlie and Libby not die needless deaths. Juliet's decision could easily be a combination of doing the right thing and knowing that she has to let Sawyer go to potentially save his life so he never has to come to Craphole island. Knowing how much she loves him, this seems like a more reasonable reason for her change of heart than all this "If I never meet you then at least I'll never have to lose you" crap. The love between Sawyer and Juliet will still be well established by the end of the episode with that heartbreakingly tragic crying and falling into the hole death of hers.


And Jack's reasons aren't any better. For all his talk about finally knowing what he was supposed to be doing there, and his new special destiny (God, was he jealous of Locke), when it boiled down to it, he just wanted Kate back. And somehow wiping out all their history and leaving it to fate (a fate that possibly brought you to Craphole in the first place) will win her back. Well, I'm with Sawyer on this one: "Well damn, Doc, she's standing right on the other side of those trees. You want her back? Just go and ask her." Seems a lot easier than blowing up an entire island, especially since it seems like Kate would probably take you back with minimal groveling on your part. See? There were plenty of good reasons for Jack to blow up the island (saving the lives of all their fellow passengers and friends who have died on this island for no good reason seems like a perfectly valid argument to me) but it has to be about Kate. Wouldn't it be more bittersweet and touching if he were blowing up the island, changing their futures, for the right reasons, to save lives, to make their lives better, and doing so with the knowledge that he might lose her forever as a consequence of the right thing, rather than just so he gets a cosmic clean slate with Kate? I was kind of like, "You had me, Jack. Then you lost me."

And why didn't anyone but Kate ever bring up the valid reason they shouldn't change their futures: that they won't know each other anymore. (Okay, yes, Sawyer brought that up briefly as well.) I'm not saying that it justifies all the deaths, but without the island, Jack never would have made internal peace with his father because he never would have heard what Christian said to Sawyer about loving his son. Kate would most likely have gone straight to jail and without Jack's character testimony, the infamy of being one of the Oceanic 6, and being a (false) mother, Kate would be rotting in jail right now. Sawyer would still be a no good conman, without a chance to work for redemption. Charlie would have probably died anyways, of an overdose. Hurley would be crazy and friendless and still convinced he's bad luck in a mental institution. Rose would have died of cancer. Locke would be rolling around, without purpose, in a wheelchair. And Sun and Jin would be distant and out of love and she never would have gotten pregnant because in the real world Jin is sterile. About the only person who comes off that plane the better for never having gone to Craphole is Sayid. He never would have become a killer again. So I as least understand why he's doing this. But everyone else's motivations are suspect. I have no problem with what they all eventually did, but their reasons were so badly written.


Wow, sorry for the rant, but I couldn't believe no one brought all this up on the show. That is straight where my mind went.

As for the Jacob, NotLocke, Ben stuff, I really don't know what to make of all that. It was great to finally see Jacob, get some idea of who he is, but I don't know how that will play out next season. Is he good or bad? He certainly seemed like a decent guy, it seemed like he was looking out for all of our Lostaways at various points in their lives, he was calm and reasonable and didn't like Ben. All good points. But were the Others and Richard always taking their orders from him? Did he really have Ben gas the entire Dharma Initiative and then live in their houses? (Now that I've met the Dharma Initiative I'm less upset about that, but still, that was harsh!) Did Jacob really tell Widmore to steal Rousseau's baby? It's impossible to know whether we can trust Jacob or not until we know exactly what he has ordered and why and exactly what his purpose on the island is. And who are these new people on the island who're supposedly the "good guys," and who are there to help Jacob. What's their deal? I'm at a loss.


As for the guy who hates Jacob? (Don't know his name - IMDb doesn't have a name listed - but the writer at TWoP has cleverly been calling him Esau. Check your bible stories about the birthright between brothers Jacob and Esau to see what that's all about, although I have no idea if that's what the Lost writers intended since I don't know if that's his real name. Would be cool if it was.) Apparently he hates Jacob and has been trying to figure out a way to kill him for centuries. And now he finally found a way: get Ben to do it. But Ben was only doing it because he thought this guy was Locke, which is wasn't, and because the Smoke Monster told him he has to do everything Locke says. But the writer at TWoP had another theory: what if the the Smoke Monster is this Esau/Not Locke guy. And I also think he's been masquerading as Christian Shepard, giving bad advice, stealing Claire's soul, etc. But what is his beef? I don't know. Does Jacob need to be killed? Is he actually a bad guy? No idea. (See the ep recap, which includes all the theories, here.)

So the finale sets up this great reveal about NotLocke (and btw, kudos to Terry O'Quinn for playing him so well because he
was still Locke-like but with this greater confidence and kind of creepy edge and it's been so fun to watch), that he's trying to kill Jacob and that Locke is really dead, but we know next to nothing about these characters and how they really fit into the story. So the episode felt like it simultaneously spent too much and not enough time on these guys. Also, if the great Bomb-Time-Reset of 1977 works, doesn't that just wipe out the killing of Jacob? Is that what Jacob meant when he said, "They're coming" or was he talking about the Shadow of the Four-Toed Statue people? I'm so confused. Did Jacob bring everyone to the island to save himself from this killer? AHHHHHH!!!!! I don't know what any of this means.


Final thoughts:

1.) I really enjoy Miles as a character and a second source of comic relief. Keep him around. Although I still want Daniel back - he was fun and strange and twitchy. 2.) Favorite
moment was definitely that tragic Juliet and Sawyer scene. Fantastic acting from both. First time I cried all season. 3.) Please find a way to keep Sayid and Desmond around more next season. I just plain like Desmond and Sayid is about the only character I always trust. 4. I hope we do see Charlie again next year. I liked him. Or maybe I just like Dominic Monaghan. 5.) I felt for Sawyer being yanked around all episode. His incredulousness to Juliet after she changed her mind was priceless. 6.) That fight with Jack was awesome and a long time coming. 7.) Never make me watch that asshole Radzinsky ever again. Hate. With the fire of a thousand suns. 8.) I feel a little cheated out of a Jin and Sun reunion. An entire season and the only scene they shared was the flashback to their wedding day (where they did look fantastically happy). 9.) I actually really liked the moment when Jack dropped the bomb and him, Kate, Juliet and Sawyer looked so hopeful and sad at the same time.


Overall, I was pretty pleased with the season and though the season was a tad plot heavy, I enjoyed every minute while it was happening and really appreciated getting answers about the Dharma Initiative, the island, Jacob, the Others, and just having the characters talk about whether they have a choice in all this or not. And I think the finale has set up next season nicely, I just have no idea what that will be. So if the show will just slow down a little next year and allow me to like some of the characters again, that would be really nice.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

This Week in Chuck...FINALLY!!!


They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I submit the following evidence:


THANK YOU! About freaking time! Yes, after an entire season of ups and downs (mostly downs, although lots of sexy ones) Chuck and Blair have finally, almost equally, declared their love for each other. There were times when we thought we'd poke out our ears if we had to hear one more unreciprocated "Three words, eight letters, say them and I'm yours, I LOVE YOU!" on this show. Thankfully that time has passed and we can look forward to lots of happy-in-love snarking and scheming from the scariest twosome to ever grace my screen. Yay! (A Warning, writers: break them up anytime before I die and I will cut you. DEAD.)

In all seriousness, the Chuck and Blair scenes were by far the highlights of the episode. They continue to have insane chemistry and drag continuous emotion from what seems like a dead horse. And that last scene? Made of yummy goodness. When was the last time Chuck Bass smiled that big? I think early first season. His "I love you, too," was of course no where near as wonderful as Blair's earlier confession of "Chuck Bass, I love you. I love you so much, it consumes me. I love you." (She said it all in a very convincing, serious, tearful voice - looks ridiculous on paper, but was perfection in execution.) However, the fact that he repeated it several times while they were making out ("I love you, I love you, that's three, four, I love you, etc.") more than made up for the initial lackluster phrasing.


The most major kudos must be given to Leighton Meester. Blair remains the most multi-faceted, fascinating, endearing, compelling character on that show. Other than the Chuck and Blair goodness, the only scenes that really lifted off the ground during both of the last two episodes were moments involving Blair - a couple great Blair and Serena moments, Blair's crazy prom conviction, the queen speech to Jenny, her "not enough" to the mean girls, and of course the insanely happy Chuck and Blair streetside makeout - when was the last time Blair was that genuinely happy? (And can't forget her conviction in that silly, yet sexy, stripping scene - it would have been easy for that one to go so wrong.) Also loved yet another Non-Judging Breakfast Club scene from the finale. Seeing Serena, Chuck, Nate and Blair on the steps plotting together really never gets old.


It does, however, show that Nate needs a personality upgrade. Serena kind of does as well. I think the last few eps have really proven that Chuck is the only person who ever gets anything done and Blair is the heart of their group. So while Serena showed great initiative in her plot to reveal Gossip Girl, she had absolutely no follow through. And poor Nate has been playing the fool for quite awhile now, asking questions all over the place and suggesting they just leave things alone. He never really brings anything to the table; they just keep him around cause he's cute and they love him. I did love how at first he thought that Dan was GG, then hilariously said, "They're a team?" when Blair and Jenny entered together. Oh, Nate. Get a clue.

Winner #1: (From episode 2.24 "Valley Girls") Thank God, th
ese last two eps brought the return of color to the wardrobe of Chuck Bass. This is the suit he wore to prom (I wish we had gotten to see it more) and it was a ridiculous homage to that great season one blue suit I loved so much (see it here.) Well done, costumers. That is exactly what Chuck Bass would wear to prom.


Winner #2: (From 2.25 "The Goodbye Gossip Girl") Later in the episode Chuck did wear this fantastic black suit with a fuscia, paisley tie, and man, it fit him to a T. Dude seriously looked like an old-fashioned movie star. But it was just a black suit and those never translate as well in photos; have to see it in action on the show for it to really have an effect. So I'm going with the color again (was there ever a doubt?), and Bass didn't disappoint in this loud oranage shirt with matching tie and fab brown suit. With matching pocket squre - yay!



P.S. I fully intend to write something about the season finale of "Lost" - in fact I might just write something about Season Finale season in general because I feel like thi
s one has been particularly contentious - but I just haven't gotten to it yet. I'll be out of town for the next few days but I hope to have the Lost piece up on Monday or Tuesday - like two weeks after the fact, go me! Oh well. Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day Movie List


I'm not very good at getting original gifts for Mother's Day (and usually don't have the cash anyways) so cleaning the house is about all my mom can expect from me today. But I do have a blog so I'm gonna post her 10 favorite movies. In no particular order (because just getting her to narrow the list to 10 was enough of an ordeal without her having to organize it), and with several appearances from films in my Top 100, here are my mom's favorite 10 movies (as far as she can remember):

  • The Way We Were (1973): Let's get this out of the way early: My mom is a huge Streisand fan. Huge. Ask her what kind of music she likes and she'll hem and haw and the only fact you'll be able to discern is that she loves Barbra Streisand. She's pretty keen on '70's golden boy Robert Redford as well. And who wasn't? Hubble Gardener is completely gorgeous. Truth be told, I love this one too. Streisand's passionate Katy is one of her best performances. The title song is sentimental, but effective. And the girls on "Sex and the City" all love so it must be great!
  • Monsters Inc. (2002): I didn't know my mom liked this one that much. At least not enough for a desert island Top 10 list (which I had to really explain to her in order for her to just tell me the must-have movies and not the ones she likes, just, you know, okay.) I presume her regard has a lot to do with Boo, the cutest cartoon girl ever, and her adorable laugh. (Wait, she just informed me that she also thinks it's very clever, with the closet doors and all, and that she likes how Sully learns that he's actually scaring the kids and feels bad about it. Look for "reform" to be a big idea later on the list.)
  • Rear Window (1954): My mom's a total Hitchcock junkie, which is actually very good taste. (I really don't give her enough credit for that; I assume most people have lesser tastes than myself, which is the only acceptable attitude for self-declared cinephiles to take, isn't it?) But really, the list could have just been 10 Hitchcock movies and it would have been pretty close to the mark. But this really is one of her favorites, as well as one of mine. Somehow Jimmy Stewart watching all the action happen through binoculars from wheelchair never gets old. Plus mom really likes Grace Kelly, thinks her character is "spunky" and really likes her wardrobe (which seems unusual for my mom to even notice, so kudos!)
  • Pride and Prejudice (2005): Damn mom, stop picking movies I like. I've already written about them! As mom put it, this is a movie she can watch "any time, all the time." She's never sick of it. I don't blame her; the love/hate romance that develops between Elizabeth and Darcy is a true blue classic. Mom's also a big fan of the recent OPB miniseries "Jane Eyre," which for my money, presents the only version of Mr. Rochester that was ever worth all the effort. Toby Stephens is actually damn sexy in the role. Mom and I watched that mini at least 4 times in the 3 months after it premiered.
  • Far and Away (1992): All anyone ever remembers about this is that Tom Cruise has a crappy Irish accent. I suppose that's true; it's definitely not an award winner. But he and Nicole Kidman have really great chemistry (another love/hate relationship) and I enjoy the tension in their class differences. I actually remember seeing this one in the theater (probably one of my first "grown-up" movie experiences; I was about 10 at the time?), and I saw it with both of my parents. The credits feature that great Enya song (yes, Enya - we love her) "Book of Days" which directly led to my purchase of "Shepard Moon" for my 11th birthday. You can pretty much guarantee my mom will always be in the mood to watch this one.
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991): I also saw this in the theater with my mom (and her best friend and all the kids - it was a full group endeavor), and as I've said before, nothing is as magical as the opening prologue of this film. That beautiful score playing while telling the story through stained glass panels was sublime. Mom likes it because Belle isn't just a fairy princess; she likes to read, dammit! And mom's also a sucker for the Beast redeeming himself. And in another show of good taste, her favorite song is the clever and operatic opening number "Provincial Life" which is probably is most fun to sing along with (except for maybe "Gaston" which is my personal fave).
  • Notorious (1946): Her favorite Hitchcock. It took us a really long time to track a copy of this one down so I only saw it for the first time this past year. I liked it so much I wrote a Check This Out blog about it. Mom likes seeing Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant play slightly against type (they were usually so charming that it's initially a little off-putting to see them be so callous to one another) and once again she's attracted to the idea of characters who redeem themselves. She also finds the whole plot involving Claude Rains as a Nazi sympathizer particularly compelling. (For those of you who were wondering, her short list also included Hitchcock's Rebecca, Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt.)
  • The Fugitive (1993): My mom's a nurse so she works with a lot of doctors and she is just relieved to see a nice doctor in Richard Kimble finally portrayed on film. :) Obviously this movie has more going for it than that, like a great action/thriller plot, Harrison Ford's humble performance as the harried everyman, and a great ensemble cast of "characters" led by Tommy Lee Jones brillinat portrayal of Sam Gerard. I, of course, love this one too. And I am still unable to adequately explain why. This film's perfection just defies my comprehension.
  • Funny Girl (1968): More Streisand. Proving herself one of silver screen's most adept comedienne's, she won Best Actress for her portryal of Fanny Brice, the early 1900's songstress who became a Ziegfield folly. And Streisand is charming. Look at her then, with her creamy skin and violet eyes (I know that supposed to be Liz Taylor's bag, but there are scenes here where I swear Steisand deserved the title) belting out vulnerable emotion in "People" and "My Man", only to turn and deliver pratfalls and adept comedic timing while singing, skating and dancing. It's truly a tour-de-force performance and mom's prerequisite musical on the list.
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003): I think this is one she really likes to watch with dad. There's enough suspense and action to make this a guy movie (although my dad's tastes are much broader than that - he has 4 daughters, they'd have to be) but it's really a character study. As a family, we love the A&E Horatio Hornblower flicks about the Royal Navy, and Master and Commander is right in line with that, only sporting more spectacular scenery and a lot more portentious gloom. At it's heart it's about the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and Doctor Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), their differing ideologies and their complementary bond. Really is a great flick for married couples - a little something for everyone.

So, Happy Mother's Day Mom! And next time I give you flack for not "knowing" as much as me, or for having inferior taste in film, you can just throw this list, which includes at least 5 movies from my top 100, back in my face and tell me to shove it!

(But I know my mom will probably never read this because she still can't figure out how to use a computer search engine! So HA! I win! :) )

Saturday, May 9, 2009

This Week in Chuck...


Damn, that was a good episode! Possibly one of
the best ever, but certainly one of the best of the season. I've had a hot and cold relationship with Michelle Tractenburg's Georgina Sparks in the past but have really enjoyed her as a wide-eyed religious convert. If course, she's even better when she's bad and her "Tell Jesus the bitch is back" sent chills down everyone's spines. It's just so nice to be able to root for bad Georgina since she's not after our gang this time. Go get Poppy!


I also love episodes that manage to incorporate all the characters in the main plot, especially when they're doing a sting operation. Honestly just get the Non-Judging Breakfast Club (that's Nate, Chuck, Serena and Blair) in a room together and I'm happy. Although it was a bonus to have Dan there as well when Georgina made her scary and hilarious debut to shouts of "Crazy Lady!," "Bass, are you trying to kill me!", "Everyone calm down!" and "What the hell is she doing here, Chuck?" I had a long, hard laugh over that scene. And kudos to one of the better episode endings since "All About My Brother." Serena getting her mug shot taken while Chuck attempts to find dirt on the police, Nate begs his grandfather for help, and Blair pleads Serena's innocence to anyone within earshot; I love it when these 4 act like the lifetime friends they actually are.

This episode also brought us the best Blair and Chuck shipper moment we've had in ages. Obviously their romance wasn't over, and the tension in the triangle with N
ate has been handled fairly well thus far, but I wasn't expecting a big, emotional scene from them before the finale. As much as the writers have had them up and down throughout the season, constantly on the Blair and Chuck roller coaster, the actors still deliver the goods in scenes together. Great faces from both and their best scene since the funeral episode. (Also, kudos to Chace Crawford for the "Make up your mind, Chuck, because I want her!" moment. I kind of wanted Nate to win there for a minute.)



Winner: Just another well-tailored suit. But hey, I found a pretty great picture of him in it; you can see the shoes and everything.


Thursday, May 7, 2009

My New Cinematic Crush

So lately I've just been finding myself inexplicably drawn to the lovely Rosemarie DeWitt. Apparently I was exposed to her on "Mad Men" as Draper's Season 1 mistress, Midge, but I didn't recognize her. Then I saw Rachel Getting Married where she plays the Rachel of the title, the responsible, burdened sister of Anne Hathaway's narcissistic former druggie, Kym. Now Anne Hathaway got most of the praise for this flick (and all of it was well deserved) but for me the movie just wouldn't work without the performance of Rosemarie DeWitt. Although the film is mainly about Kym and a family trying to move past grief and into forgiveness, the film's primary relationship is between Rachel and Kym. When I'm watching this movie (one of my favorite from the past year) I'm rooting for Kym. But Rachel is the character I'm most intrigued by; there are countless stories in her eyes and expressions.

It's not even that I'm crushing on DeWitt's character (which she plays so beautifully), but I really like watching her as an actress. Part of me really wants her character's wedding, part of me covets her hair, and part of me is bizarrely attracted to her eyes and smile. I finish the film every time and just want to keep following Rosemarie DeWitt. Stay with her! I find her an absolutely stunning actress; every moment with her feels real and interesting. Don't know how better to describe it; it's not a romantic crush at all, but I feel absolutely enchanted by her. Hope to see a lot more in the future.