Powder Blue (2009)

Ugh - I saw all the good actors listed and so I watched this movie. Can I erase my memory? Maybe go to Total Recall and pay to have it removed? I just wanted to know how the little boy got in the coma. Is that too much to ask?? It was really depressing and I guess the only moral to the story is that if you just get through it things might get better if you can make a connection with someone else before you get so depressed you want to shoot yourself in the head. I also could not understand how Ray Liotta's character was deep in snow but The stripper and the mortician - there was no snow. The snow was blue - so that explained the title of the movie but still did not make sense. I just found the movie a little disturbing all-in-all. It was about as shallow as Demi Moore's stripper debut movie and that other awful movie I had managed to forget with the redhead stripper from Head of the Class but she could not act and these people could. I will steer clear of Crash and Magnolia, since others are hinting that this movie is even worse than those. I will only have to conclude for myself that the little boy is in a coma because his coke-head mom crashed the car or dropped him on his head. She didn't deserve to have a dog either.

This is a very poignant movie about the loneliness that pervades the human condition, and how seemingly coincidental events can affect people whose paths otherwise wouldn't have crossed. Jessica Biel gives a stellar performance as an exotic dancer (it seems she did her own dancing) who has unresolved family situations. Forest Whitaker is another main character whose performance is compelling as a grieving widower. Ray Liotta gives a haunting portrayal of an ex-con seeking some closure. And Eddie Redmayne portrays a mortician who also likes giving puppet shows for children's' entertainment. Lisa Kudrow also does well in a supporting role. I think it's a very well written and executed drama.

I'm not a big fan of dramas because they usually leave me sobbing in the corner of my room and thinking why life is so damn unfair. That doesn't mean that I think those movies are rubbish, just that I don't watch them often. So there is no need to tell that I approached this movie with caution but, as it turned out, I had nothing to be afraid of. Four different tales of powerlessness and loneliness and what wouldn't people do to escape it. The movie doesn't leave you helpless and questioning the meaning of life, which, in my case, is important, but instead you except that neither them nor you can do anything about it and that, though you do the best you can, life still sucks. But what impressed me the most was the music. If you heard the songs on the radio, you probably wouldn't think them special in any way (I know I wouldn't), but as background music to most of the scenes it just works. It makes them more real and (for the lack of a better word) close. So,the verdict is: it is sad, yes, but just enough.

This movie was life changing to say the least. Although at times its a little unbelievable the only two words i could use to describe are emotional and roller coaster.I felt Gareth O'Conner's performance may have let the move down a little bit with his snooty comments and obscene gestures.The movies shocking nature forces one to consider what does it really mean to ones self. In my opinion anyone who has not seen powder Blue is lacking in life.i really felt the scene with the strippers was particularly striking due to its beautiful imagery that spoke novels to me. I feel that the movie also has serious re-watch value it seems that there is always a new angle to ponder the movie from