“Tommy. How's the peeping? Tommy, how's the peeping? Tommy. Tommy. Tommy. Tommy. Tommy.”

Been meaning to see this film for awhile. Took the opportunity to watch it because in my Acting Technique class this upcoming semester, we’ll be exploring sections of the script, and applying what we’ve learned last semester with our imagination work with script analysis and character motivations. 

And talk about MOTIVATIONS. Some rich ones here.

“Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do.”

I find myself more attuned to acting choices in flicks since starting at the conservatory, and there are tremendous ones here (Philip Seymour Hoffman is truly wonderful; actually really liked Jude Law the most in this; Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett are amazing). And yeah, Matt Damon’s pretty great.

But I found myself most taken with the actual script itself, crazy story as it is. And the visual language of this movie is much more provocative than I originally thought it’d be; it’s really from the POV of Tom, and everything he sees he WANTS. All throughout, I greatly admired the framing of each scene, and the amount of intentionality behind the blocking and colors. Loved so many of the boat-camera choices; it’s Tom departing and arriving in new circumstances.

Great stuff.