DISTANCE

Hey there folks it's me again, your friendly neighborhood black guy's point of view. I know that a few posts ago I told all of you (the two people that actually read this.) that from now on this blog would be strictly dedicated to movie reviews. Well I'm here to tell you that I lied. Well kind of, this isn't exactly going to be a movie review, but this blog comes in light of the fact that I went to the movies yesterday and saw a double feature. Which was awesome if I do say so myself. The movies that I went and saw were, MACHETE and for the second time, GOING THE DISTANCE. Now tomorrow I will be doing a review of both of these movies for those of you that care, and since there are both at the dollar movies it won't be to hard to go see them, and even if you don't I'm sure they will be at the red box or out to rent soon enough.

Now back to why we are all here. I want to talk about DISTANCE. It was in the middle of watching this movie that I enjoyed the shit out of for the second time, when this thing just popped in my head and it just wouldn't get out. And it had to deal with the distance that we all build up in our lives.

Before I start I'm going to take a quick sidebar (here he goes again right.) Justin Long is not at all one of my favorite actors, or up and coming actors for that matter. He doesn't even really make it in my top ten to tell you the truth.

UP and COMERS ahead of LONG
1. Joesph Gordon-Levitt -see BRICK
2. Carrey Mulligan -see AN EDUCATION
3. Jesse Eisenberg -see ADVENTURELAND
4. Chloe Grace Mortez -see KICK-ASS
5. Andrew Garfield -see SOCIAL NETWORK, he's the new Peter Parker
6. Emma Stone -see ZOMBIELAND
7. Kristen Stewart -see ANYTHING BUT TWILIGHT
8. Tom Hardy -see ROCKINROLLA or INCEPTION
9. Ellen Page -see HARD CANDY please
10. Blake Lively -I can't believe she's on this list, but she has proven she has some chops
38. Justin Long -see blink and you miss it in ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO

But in recent years this guy has been given some of the best little great moment lines in a movie and it is beyond me how it keeps happening. I mean I really do like this guy, and I'm not saying that these lines are wasted on him, because I don't think that at all, but the lines he has been giving in these certain movies just happens to be some of my favorite lines to date. That alone is why this guy remains on my radar, well I guess that and that fact that he his pretty good. I know right about know you're thinking, "Brandon, what are these lines you speak of?" Well let me tell you.

From ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, my often time used, "You better shut your mouth before I fuck it." Pretty much a genius line in every way shape or form.

From that horseshit of a movie that I really can't stand HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, at the end of the movie the lovely Ginnifer Goodwin and him are having their moment that brings it all together, but earlier in the movie he told her that she was the rule not the exception. so she says after he kisses her, "I'm the exception" and he very smoothly whispers to her, "You are my exception."

Lastly in GOING THE DISTANCE, in the "moment" at the end of the movie, he meets up with Drew Barrymoore's character, and says, "I have a question." "I don't know what your situation is right now but...I miss you." to which her character replies, "That's not a question." and he looks at her intensely and says, "Yes, it is." I mean I don't know what is going on here, but the kid is just getting these genius lines, and I'm kind of falling in love with him because of it.

So, now that I've taken up so much of your time with that ridiculous little sidebar let me get back to the point of this whole thing. That point that I would be talking about would be DISTANCE. So I'm sitting here watching this movie which I feel is phenomenal by the way, for the second time the real weight of this movie begins to hit me. But not just the weight of the movie, just the weight of this whole idea of distance.

It seems to me to be this thing that is always there in all of our lives, but we really do take it all for granted I think. I mean I know that I am just 25 years old and I haven't lived through half as much as some people, but I feel a lot wiser than my years. I feel like I have an old soul to tell you the truth. And this thing with the distance is something that I guess has kind of been bothering me for some time now.

When we are kids we know that there is absolutely a distance between us and our parents. It is unmistakable, but as we get older that distance begins to shrink somewhat. More so in some people child to parent relationship than others. Take me for instance, My father and I are really have always been miles apart in distance, and it wasn't until I was in college and got cut from the baseball team that I realized that, that distance was a lot closer than I realized. And now as I continue to grow and live my life I can almost feel the distance between us widening as I feel more and more that I am not living the life that he always wanted for me and I feel like a disappointment to him. So I guess I am just realizing that with me and him I am always going to have to work on this distance thing, because is seems to always be changing.

But that isn't the only thing that I am talking about. We all seem to have these relationships and the the older we grow the closer some of these distances get while others seem to get farther away. I don't for the life of me know how it happens. I mean one day you wake up and somebody you've known your whole life can feel like they are a continent away from you, and it almost seems like an insurmountable amount of distance to overcome. And some of us just live but a few miles away from each other but we might as well live on a completely different planet. I don't know how it happens, but believe me it does. it's a sad thing to see or be a part of. And maybe it's a part of the human condition, we just sit there idly while these distances overcome us, and change the people that we are. It's not a good thing, and it doesn't have to be like this.
I think we all should work hard to make sure that these distances don't overcome us, that they don't stunt or change the people that we were always meant to be. I don't really if anybody out there really understands what I have been trying to say, but you know what, I said it.

So until next time, Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'