I agree completely. This was one of those movies that I didn't really enjoy while I was watching it, but haven't been able to stop thinking about since.
Mostly because of the theme you mentioned, the whole "new things get old."
If you think about it, it absolutely speaks to current culture trends in technology and especially music. Nothing we have is good enough anymore. We're excited about the I-phone 5 for a day, and then we tire of it and wait around greedily for the next best thing. There's still a bunch of talented musicians out there, but the ones who sell the most do it with this sort of razzle dazzle that absently forces the actual music into the backseat, while prestige, sex appeal, and fashion take precedence. When movies were introduced to the world, people thought they were AMAZING. It didn't matter that the movies were silent, people were AMAZED. Period. And they stayed amazed for YEARS. Then came color, and people were blown away again. Then sound. And people thought we'd basically done everything we could possibly do to make movies magical. But the magic died and people got restless, especially after the invention of VCRs and DVD players and now we have streaming and 3D and surround sound and blue ray and what used to take people years to grow tired of now takes a matter of weeks. Because something new comes out ALL THE TIME, and suddenly the old stuff isn't good enough anymore. The old stuff isn't sensational enough. Just like radio in the song, or Lou in the movie. Once you get used to something, once it becomes routine, it's not special anymore. It's boring. And what's easier than throwing something away to make room for the new and exciting?
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cvcv1
11 years ago
Typical IMDb amateur film critic overinterpretation, which of course ignores the REAL reason the DIRECTOR put the song in the film: It was her brother's favorite song. LMAO!!!
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karabara
11 years ago
Thanks for regurgitating the trivia page! Gee golly, you sure are good at capitalizing words, and exaggerating and simplifying things at the same time, which is pretty great! It's so cool that you're besties with the DIRECTOR so that you can interpret all the one-liners she threw at the press. And it's heartwarming that pretending to be smart makes you laugh your ass off. Yay! Yay for you!
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cvcv1
11 years ago
Happy to be of service in providing you information that I knew long ago without reading the trivia page, so I'm glad you corroborated what I already knew. And I certainly enjoy being besties with Polley probably about as much as you enjoyed being besties with Roger Ebert . . . no wait!! Now I get it!! You are Roger Ebert reincarnated!! No wonder you have such piercing insights into film interpretation that . . . uh . . . er . . . well, that only 95% of IMDb users have.
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karabara
11 years ago
Oh, the cleverness of you! Roger Ebert reincarnated, that's pure creativity, man. Thank you for recognizing my piercing insight. And thank you for making me "LMAO" again, and again. You are an IMDB gem. What's it like being so funny? I bet you're used to blank stares; most people probably don't understand the subtlety of your wit.
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cvcv1
11 years ago
Thanks so much for praising my cleverness! But I must confess that I haven't mastered subtlety at the level you have achieved. You seem to have perfected the ability to perceive the subtlety of hidden meanings in films, to the point of seeing what no one else sees. No doubt writers and directors soon will be beating a path to you door to find out what they never realized about their films. The rest of us pitiful peons of film appreciation can only hope that, with a lot of hard work, over a lifetime we might be able to understand just a very little about a lot of things in film. But you have taken that expertise light years beyond the rest of us: you know everything about nothing.
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karabara
11 years ago
Oh, I get it, you're a one-trick-pony. Shoot, I'm bored. You've actually bored me. Normally I find 12-year-olds kind of endearing, but you're like the inbred classroom bully who can't think of anything to say so he just parrots everyone else's sh*t until he gets one awkward reinforcing laugh.
Mine was better. Deal with it. Go do your homework or scribble some more angsty virginal rants in your diary.
You can have the last word, pony. I know it's important for you to feel like you have the edge.
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cvcv1
11 years ago
One-trick-pony? Mine was better? I don't mean to embarrass you, but I'm pretty sure you posted on the wrong thread, since your entire post seem to be disjointed comments that have nothing to do with anything in this thread. Although I suppose it's remotely possible that you had another of your amazing "perceptions" and saw a post that none of the rest of us can see. I'm curious, are there other film critics on your planet?
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fool-soul
11 years ago
I have to thank you both. This was very entertaining & enlightening. You both are very intelligent - that much is clear. I would like to ask you why you feel so compelled to bring one another down, but the experience was enlightening because of such. So, I guess I'll just refrain and repeat: thank you for being yourselves! Each perspective makes this experience that much more rich.
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pfarnell
8 years ago
I have to thank you both. This was very entertaining & enlightening. You both are very intelligent -
maybe, but I think it went on at least one pair of ripostes too many, it was like a loved soap which should have been cancelled two years b4 it was.
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pfarnell
8 years ago
I bet you're used to blank stares; most people probably don't understand the subtlety of your wit
smiles
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fearforthefuture
10 years ago
Even if it is her brother's favourite song, Sarah Polley still chose to use it at that point in the film, no doubt because of its relevance to the themes/plot/situation. Its symbolism won't have escaped her.
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