Mar 17 2009
LITTLE CHILDREN
This review is WATCHMEN related.
I just saw a film that should have been either nominated or won for best picture in 2006; the film is called LITTLE CHILDREN. Based on a book, it stars Kate Winslet as a house mom who has taken a leave of absence from her job as an English professor to be a mother for her daughter. However throughout the film we see how not happy she is as a mother and we even see how bad she is as a mother. Patrick Wilson stars as one of her neighbors who also has a child and they make play dates together. Soon, it becomes inevitable and they wind up falling in love with one another. The film is not your typical adulterous affairs movie, it delves into deeper issues such as fetishism, yuppie – scum life, marrying the wrong person, and self-punishment. The film is not for everyone, but I feel the performances from the actors, the script and the composition of the film makes it worthwhile kind of experience. Sadly this movie was only nominated for acting by a few of the actors and the big prize went to THE DEPARTED. Which I still feel should not of been nominated. I feel that THE DEPARTED was a good film but not award worthy. THE DEPARTED only won because John Stewart made a comment a year before that the “Three-Six Mafia” won Oscars and that Martin Scorcese never won. There is no way that’s a coincidence. Especially since THE AVIATOR was a superior film to THE DEPARTED. Getting back to my original WATCHMEN reference to actors from the film are in the WATCHMEN, Patrick Wilson who plays Nite Owl and Jackie Earle Hailey who is Rorschach.
