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Kaffeine Buzz
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p.s. (Dylan Kidd)
Laura Linney stars in another compelling role
as Louise Harrington, a woman who is going through
personal struggles from a failed marriage and
a love that was lost when she was just a young
girl. The movie starts unfolding with her review
of an application from an art student applying
to Columbia. As the head of admissions, she reviews
the papers with her hands shaking.
We began to realize why she’s so nervous
as she calls the potential student, like a school
girl asking the jock at school to the Sadie Hawkins,
to make an appointment for an interview. What
happens in their face to face encounter is surprising,
until you realize that man child reminds her of
her old boyfriend in high school who had died
in a car crash decades earlier. Sharing a similar
name, F. Scott Feinstadt played by Topher Grace
(the goofy Eric Forman on “That ‘70s
Show) seems to be his incarnate with the same
mannerisms, looks, and the clincher: the deceased’s
style of art.
One starts to wonder if she ever got over the
first Scott, or if she’s just trying to
grab at any chance to relive the past when she
had passion in her life, to go back to a time
when life was less complicated and she had less
scars. What would seem to be a very logical thinking
woman is now unlocking her inhibitions with a
determination not to let him go again.
Topher Grace gets away from the goofy, showing
a completely different side of himself, more so
than in the high-school romantic comedy “Win
a Date with Tad Hamilton.” This time around,
his character has a keen and unexpected sense
of what she’s gone through, even though
he’s about twenty years her senior and has
only known her a few days. The roles between the
couple reverse back and forth as she struggles
and he comforts.
Even the dynamics of Louise’s past relationship
with her best friend Missy (played by Marcia Gay
Harden) come rushing back as if they just got
out of homeroom as they continue to fight over
the guy that left them both decades ago. This
interplay reminds us that although memories may
fade, they can resurface as if not a day has gone
by.
This movie is of this time, taking a look at
the past but in the end, realizing that the present
is the best place to be. p.s. shows how one can
kid themselves into thinking they can really control
life instead of realizing that the universe will
play its part. It’s only when we let go
and breath do we allow ourselves to live life
one day at a time.
http://psthemovie.com/
The movie opens at Starz Film Center Friday,
November 12. Go to www.starzfilmcenter.com
for showtimes.
-Kim Owens, November 12, 2004 |
