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Love, the future, 11 September 2003
Author: karmacoupe from New York, Toronto

Wow! One of those great movies you stumble on half-way thru and go Oh My God, and then have to go on a quest to see it from top to bottom.

Blazing, creative, thought-provoking, want to get the script.

Talk about Men are from Mars and Women are from New York!

Love D'Onofrio in just about anything, and maybe best in this. or is he the best in everything? this is Marisa in the Cousin Vinnie crazy Italian love role, 15 years later.

Fabulous perfect real best-friend New Yorker played by Nadia Dajani.

And this Jose Zuniga as the pyschic friend is just great -- don't know where i saw him before, but he's perfect!

As a New Yorker, this movie is technicolor real. it's like After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan, Smoke, Tree's Lounge -- not "Maid in Manhattan" perfectly-lit Hollywood New York, but rather downtown indi-film real-life New York. It's fast, sometimes sloppy, very verite, very street, beautifully unpolished. Incredible String Band-like music, flutes, ethereal court jester minstrels tootling the multitudes.

Back-travel, fate, causality, telepathy-scopes, herb smoking, Love. Blinovitch's 2nd Law of Temporal Inertia. :-) Cheeseman's Emotional Therapy Theory :-) not being able to afford an expensive back-story :-)

i think we can all relate to that -- and how there are poor people in the future is kinda funny and against type -- where we think everyone will Not be poor in the time-travel future. "Hey, I paid a lot of money for that back-story! What a rip-off!" van Gogh and Lewis Carroll connected to time travelers; nice homage to Kate Hepburn doin' the i'm-not-from-here gig; Free Bird in the background :-)

i was in this relationship -- i the crazy martian, and she the caring single New York Italian woman trying to understand the innocent, romantic martian-boy's weirdness and mid-western cluelessness. and you?

classic scene with Marisa & Vincent in a diner booth talking about time Not being a rigid line -- reminded me of Marisa's face & revelations in the witness stand in Cousin Vinnie.

Marisa character's father stopping drinking, but losing his passion.

"Since daddy stopped drinking, we have . . . lost our spark. I know it sounds weird saying it, but i miss your father the way he was."

"It won't last forever." Live and embrace Now.

Love from the future, in a wonderfully contemporary New York.

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