Review of Good (2008) by Steven Y — 05 Apr 2009

First I feel it is necessary to tell you that I saw this movie from the second row of an auditorium-like theater...20 minutes after a double scotch...and meeting Viggo Mortensen (an absolutely divine,although, disconcerting experience that never gets old).

Another reason, I think, it's taken me so long to comment on this movie is because it touched me so deeply...in a place that made me uncomfortable in a way that was completely foreign to me. So foreign that it took me a long bit to even realize it was "uncomfortableness" that was causing my writer's block.

However, one becomes increasingly distressed (as our "angel" becomes distressed) as the movie progresses. And, just when we are waiting for that jump off the cliff into grandma's soft feather bed - it ends.

As you leave the theater, you think you've escaped the hideousness relatively unscathed, but it's like a gasoline or kerosene burn...it bubbles it's way from your insides out.