*headdesks* yeah, The Departed has a great story, because it's actually a remake of a Hong Kong movie called "Infernal Affairs" with Tony Leung (one of my sugar daddy crushes). Also I'm not too keen on "The Pursuit of Happiness" because it's about a guy's pursuit of EXCESS WEALTH, because being just well-off isn't good enough. But I guess that's what makes it a true American film.
I'm glad to see you're back on LJ. I PROMISE I'll make some rum balls soon. Everyone's mad at me because I've had the ingredients for rum balls sitting in the pantry for weeks now, and I still haven't made them yet.
I wouldn't call it looking for excess wealth...The family isn't well off at all. They start of sort of going downhill, with tax/rent/childcare/grocery debts, and then the shit hits the fan, and the wife leaves and the dad's left to support the son on his own, with a non-job (he independently sells overpriced and unnecessary bone density scanners to clinics, which noone buys), so to live, they end up going to soup kitchens, and sleeping in boarding houses for the homeless, etc. Meanwhile the dad has to keep up this facade of quasi-wealth, because he is in an unpaid training program at a firm which at the end employs 1 of the 20 people to become a stockbroker. It's really sad, though it just gets sadder and sadder, like it's raining misery. There aren't really many 'relief happy moments'.
RUM BALLS! Quinn has been bugging me to get the recipe off you. He's addicted as badly as I am.
But according to the trailer, he's inspired to go after the stockbroker job because he wants a fancy sports car. I'd like it better if it was about a guy going broke who ends up fairly well off, as opposed to a guy who's broke who ends up becoming rich. I know it's based on a true story, but it's like it's saying "OMG it's cool being rich and it can happen to you!" when it doesn't most of the time.
The trailer is a bit misleading... There is a scene at the start where he fancies the sports car, but it's kind of in passing (to introduce the job opportunity, i guess), because in context, the message is that he wants is a life that's better than what he has (as in the guy has a car, therefore he has some money, therefore he can feed his family etc). At the time, he begins to get poorer, and needs another job, or they'll starve
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I'm glad to see you're back on LJ. I PROMISE I'll make some rum balls soon. Everyone's mad at me because I've had the ingredients for rum balls sitting in the pantry for weeks now, and I still haven't made them yet.
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It's really sad, though it just gets sadder and sadder, like it's raining misery. There aren't really many 'relief happy moments'.
RUM BALLS! Quinn has been bugging me to get the recipe off you. He's addicted as badly as I am.
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And I'm afraid the rumball recipe is a secret ^-^
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