The Descendants

The Descendants

Not a specific rewatch, just a random thought. I rewatched with my girlfriend a little over a year ago.

This is one of my favourite films of all time actually. I have watched it countless times and tried to show it to as many people I have been able to. It may not adhere to Dogma 95 or some other avant-garde movement, it doesn’t have one single disorienting, what-the-fuck scene and I’m sure it owes 9 lives to whatever European film from the 50s, but it’s a damn earnest movie that takes place in Hawaii and has George Clooney running in flip flops under the rain to his sister-in-law’s house to find out if his comatose wife was cheating on him with the real estate agent of the potential buyer of a large portion of virgin land of one of the Hawaiian islands; of which he is the trustee. George Clooney is the trustee. He is the trustee of the land to be bought by the dude represented by his wife’s side piece. It’s his final choice. Did I mentioned that the real estate agent is Matthew Lillard aka Shaggy?! Like what else can you ask? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

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