the lookout

i've started to look for joseph gordon-levitt movies and stumbled upon the lookout. based on JGL's penchant for heavy drama and unique films, i had a feeling this was going to be one of them. i was right :)

it starts off with levitt and laura vandervoort's character kelly in a car with 2 other friends. they were dressed to the nines, so i'm assuming they just left a party. anyway, levitt's character chris pratt then turns off the cars headlights because he wants to show kelly the fireflies - they're beautiful and distracts them from the road. because chris was speeding and the car then veers slightly, the 2 friends quickly ask chris to turn on the headlights. he does and the last image is of them crashing into a huge wall/truck left in the middle of the road. horrific.

i'm not going to tell you the rest of the story. please watch the movie, it's a great one. i was entertained through and through.

standout performance again from levitt, but that was what i expected. his character eventually suffers a head injury/trauma and that causes him to have slight brain damage. he can still walk, talk, drive even, he just forgets things. there was an exercise he was trying to accomplish in the movie which i found interesting: he was attending class and the teacher asked them to list down their activities for the day in chronological order. he keeps writing "i wake up" after going through 2-3 other routines.

though the shady characters were a bit too shady for me, they still worked. i kept trying to place where i'd seen matthew goode, and then i remembered a little mandy moore flick about the first daughter and her bodyguard. it wasn't that good, but it was quite enjoyable - mainly because of jeremy piven.

anyway, going back to the lookout... i would recommend this to people who liked eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and fargo. it's not for everyone, i got scared in a few scenes, but the ending saved it :)

another JGL masterpiece. awesome goodness!