Review of Elizabethtown (2005) by Sowmya A — 15 Apr 2013

It's a feel good movie. The movie begins with a man who has lost everything in his life, his career, pride and later on his father and the love of his life, his girlfriend. Then how the turn of of events take place when he was quite determined to end his life, is the whole movie about.

It's not that nicely made but it's a good movie nevertheless. The cameo of Jessica Biel and Alec Baldwin was really powerful. Susan Saradon has been wasted in a foolish role in the end, seriously I found the dance and her speech to be very foolish.

Orlando and Kirsten were charming but again, most of the places the filmmakers were playing not so inspiring or appropriate for the situation songs instead of an actual conversation, so broke the flow of an on going conversation or thought process in the movie.

Too much emotions in this one. I am usually a kind who cries at every ounce of true emotion depicted in the story but I felt very awkward at most of the places towards the end when the movie wont just end.

Maybe it's because here a girl takes care of a 'man in distress', she woos him, coos for him, makes an elaborate plan for him, plays around with him, follows him and wins him. As sexist as it may sound but had a man done that for a lady, it would be a tear jerker for me but this one wasn't.

Seriously, if a instead of a man standing in a kind posture and countenance waiting for his confused lady love to look around and embrace her as she finds him, we see the reverse, where Kirsten is doing the honors for Orlando.

Well, I usually adore Kirsten in her cut throat angry roles where she slices off a human being's high spirits with her mean remarks, so, I found that there were awkward moments here that made the movie boring at times but I am glad I watched it.

The dialogues are less, but whatever are there, they are really good, a few of them I am taking home with me like, 'there are men who hold onto something and never let go for 50 years'. Then there is one where Kirsten asks Orlando if he ever felt like he had been fooling everyone.