We’re perfecting our own little communistic government, the three of us, and even though we’re each already carrying something, Rue insists that we each carry the ultimately equal load.  He gives Tyler a bag of two liters and a pizza and then turns to me; if I don’t participate I get shot.

He points his gloved finger at me, grinning.  We’re fascists now, too.

So we split the cargo until we each have our own bag and pizza box to carry up into our house.

I have to write this down, I laugh, before I forget.

I find that I usually only review movies I enjoyed because if I didn’t really take pleasure in them it can be passed of as simply not my cup of tea.  So I guess most of my reviews are more of recommendations, but despite that fact, Lonesome Jim is a movie to comment on.  I was really looking forward to seeing this movie for a few reasons, but the main one was that it was a film by Steve Buscemi and I was interested in seeing what he could do, as I have yet to see “Trees Lounge”.  But I am not sure what the point of this film was, and to borrow a quote, “since it was supposed to have some sort of a point and was not an exercise in theoretical surrealism that can get by without one, then this lack of a point is a sin of omission.”

The script lacked any real sense of feeling, even if it was supposed to be depressing, it wasn’t supposed to lack feeling.  And I found that neither Casey Afleck nor Liv Tyler could lift their faces from the pages of ’s strained James C. Strouse’s script for two seconds to at least create their characters to be anything more than two-dimensional.  I thought that maybe it was a good attempt, at first, and that the ending would tie it all together, but then it just spiraled downward into an endless spin of supposed Hollywood happiness.  The ending sucked.  It was twisted into a permanent smile like some sick facelift.  Lonesome Jim was trying to capture a sense of realism that Everything Is Illuminated was able to, but failed miserably.  It didn’t paint a picture, it stumbled through one.  The only possible redeeming factor was that Buscemi chose to cast Mary Kay Place, whom I adore for her work in My So-Called Life.  That is all.