Captivating

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2019)

I don't know how many times I have watched this movie. Many. I don't know if you can possibly classify a movie as your favourite, considering many genres, cultures, countries, and hundreds of great movies made in the history.
Somehow every few months I go back to Jackie Brown to revisit; and I am never disappointed. It is always exciting and somehow still feels fresh after so many years. For a long time I couldn't tell what that was - what is so captivating about this movie where nothing much (seemingly) really happens. There are no fast paced scenes, fireworks, blood, sex and all that 'noise' that would normally get you excited. So what is it then? Only recently I realised it is the experience in the whole that makes me love this picture so much - this movie makes me feel I am literally in L.A. in the 90's, that I cruise in a cool convertible, listening to 'Cissy Strut' by The Meters... and it is warm, and sunny, and super cool, and I don't want to be anywhere else.
...it is a pretty strong experience. No other movie ever triggers anything remotely close to this in me.