Having no consensus on what my blog should contain, I’m going to use it as a forum for general thoughts and stuff. One natural area are movie and book reviews as I tend to read quite a bit and occasionally watch movies. So why not write short reviews of those subjects?
Anyhow, to get on with the topic of this post. I watched the movie United States of Leland recently. The story is about this young guy committing an act of violence, seemingly without a motive. His prison teacher is trying to analyze the man to find out a motive and possible get a good story for his book. Instead – or in addition to – of the teacher managing to get a good story, the highly analytical main character forces the teacher himself to look at his own life from a somewhat different angle. Turns out he’s not as “good” a person as he himself might’ve thought..
While the God/Devil and good/bad rhetoric sometimes goes a little too far, I found the movie quite interesting. It handles some difficult issues without attempting to give straight-cut answers to the posed questions. I also liked the fact that while the story is about a murder, there is little actual violence in the movie.
Overall, I give this one 3.5 out of 5 stars.
