Changing Lanes

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This Hand was shoX0red by the competence of thee film - casting director with dead-on aim, lots of nice slow parts, and best of all a moral logic that anchored the twists and turns to something real and inevitable. "I've found the edge. Can you live with me here?" means 2 different things at 2 different times and both refer to MORALITY. There's so much here that it's hard to articulate all the tiny triumphs but suffice to say Sidney Pollack get mucho screen time and if that doesn't convince you then you are dead to me.

And lordy lordy maybe Ben Affleck can act after all, at least in movies where he gets to play the kind of vaguely guilty prick that he always comes off as. Sam L is sort of a dick too; but both these men want to become better people and this event is an opportunity for them. Their dilemma is whether to pay attention to their instincts and make the hard choice to change, or to slip right back into routine - for Affleck, his duplicitous law career, for Sam L his violence and alcoholism - changing lanes is HARD TO DO and even after the feel-good ending (which is so tacked-on you can ignore it) you're not sure if these guys are up to it. But you know that they want it. Anyway, great great flick, so go see it.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

subthread:::::: what are your favorite silver-screen morality tales ?

― Tracer hand, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House. Moral - home is where the heart is. Second moral - pray they do not remake it in the Eighties with Shelly Long and Tom Hanks.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

this wasn't great, but i'm still reeling from the tacked-on ending bit that tracer told me to ignore, so maybe i'll give it time. i fully agree on the 'competence' of the movie (plus could've been a REAL stinker of "john q" proportions if handled less capably), but i'm still not convinced. i had a pleasing notion towards the end of the film that it would actually descend into a dark grey orwellian (side note: the most overused author-adjective evah?) nightmare. or at least mire us in a misery deep enough to make the recovery of a picture-perfect resolution impossible. but it didn't.

it did almost make me want to post a thread about my innate trust of cynicism, but i think i'm too tired to word it properly. (so when has that stopped me in the past?)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw this when I was on an aeroplane. it was piss.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

and Tracer asked a bigger q about movie morals that we all ignored

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i saw it on an aeroplane too. i kinda' liked it.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I almost saw MY BIG FAT GRSSK WEDDING on, I think, the same aeroplane. this wasn't as piss as that. OF COURSS

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Wahay! Flyers of the Friendly Skies during Agust or September unite. I watched Changing Lanes, skipped My Big Fat folks ain't like your folks and Life, or something like it. Oh, and Spiderman too, which interestingly was absolutely massive in Mexico and throughout Latin America. They couldn't get enough of it, but I digress.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Spiderman plushie sexxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

YARGH. You are inviting the sick googlers, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I thought it was an amazing movie. Not so much of how out there it was (because i wasn't) but of how normal, yet different it was. All the characters were both horrible and great at the same time, very well done. The atmosphere was decent, but the movie wasn't really focusing on that (or even the characters) It was focusing on a shitty day and the moral issues surronding it., and it was believable. This was a high class film for coming out of Hollywood. Up there with other recent famous-actor movies as: Vanilla Sky, Talented Mr. Ripley, Fight Club, Heat, Devil's Advocate, etc.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my.
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yeah, I saw spider-man on an aeroplane too!! but I liked that a lot and had already seen it.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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