Sunday 24 May 2020

Aloha (2015 Cameron Crowe & scr)

A Perfect Film, which on IMDB is awarded 5.4. (Can I just say, that turkey The Locket we watched the other night ... 7.2. Which proves the world's full of idiots.)

Full of wonderful unexpected moments, like Bradley suddenly howling in the car, out of the window (a dog howls back - 'see?' his look says). And a wonderful sense of the mystical...

"I'm just making sure we're still alive."
"Are we?"

Emma's shoe in the Christmas tree.

It's just brilliant. That loose hand held shot - no, even before that - we meet John Krasinski right up front. Then, as the camera circles, we have the triangle right there - Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone.

"The future is a brute force with a gentle sense of humour that will steamroller you if you don't pay attention."

When Emma says "I danced with the devil... and I liked it" - she's absolutely perfect.

"I may not be the original owner of your heart, but I am the better owner."

The ending would make a snake cry (to paraphrase Orson Welles). Danielle Rose Russell.


Great use of sound all the way through, inspired music choices, as usual. Not in the shadow of Wilder at all, Cameron's definitely his own man.

Led Kaapana is the legendary slack guitarist playing opposite Emma.

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