Captures the moment

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2006)

I have been aware of this movie, and it's good reviews, for a long time before I ever decided to watch it -- for the simple reason that I don't particularly like the look of Ethan Hawke's face (he looks like an addict).
However, I must confess, it was a very good movie. This is the only movie I can recall ever having seen in which there are no time-cuts; the movie is 77 minutes long, both in runtime and in "movie-time." In every other movie I have ever seen, there exists a story, and then it's like the story is run through a series of un-reality filters to crunch it into a certain amount of time, and distort reality in such a way as to make the characters seem more dramatic and more real than real life, while at the same time being very unreal if you actually think about it. This movie doesn't do that.
They took a moment in time that was a powerful memory, and they didn't translate it to "movie land," they just show it. And that's all...