who goes to see movies at noon on a monday? i do. what possible movie would i do that for? why, the dreamers, of course. what a perfect movie for melody: sex, movies, politics, what more do i need? i give it five stars for keeping me perfectly engaged the entire time. there's a flow that bertolucci somehow mastered that makes me feel i'm experiencing these things with them. and when they peel off matthew's clothes it's at first shocking and then i'm thinking "this is no big deal, why aren't more movies doing this?" i read an article in the paper about the dreamers possibly giving a better name to NC-17, and i think that might be true, because it shows us this material like it's perfectly normal, like everyone's doing it, and that's how they get you. if you show skin in a flash, as a surprise, with a bang, it's going to get a bang out of the audience. compare: streakers and nudists. one is sensational and the other is just.. whatever, no big deal. so i think more filmmakers should do this so we can start cooling down about how sensational skin is. theo was very sexy. so was isabelle. so was matthew from the neck down. i hate that kid's head. i keep thinking of him as that little jackass bottom boy in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. still tho, he was very good here. surprising. his little speech on the shape of isabelle's lighter was surprising. what on earth was going on in france? was that all just about the cinemateque? how does communism get mixed in? i need to look that up. i was grinning ear to ear with all the movie trivia, i wish i was so engrossed as to remember little scenes and act them out like isabelle, that's impressive. i need to see all of those movies. i need to see every movie. dammit. lately i'm having all this internal conflict because i'm so behind in school stuff but all i can bring myself to do is go watch movies, and that's all i want to do, and i have this feeling i'll end up with a career in movies and i'll look back at how futile school was because movies were the only thing that mattered really but i can't do that because if i get below a certain GPA i don't get as much money and that doesn't work. i'm in this hole with money. there are very few ways out of this hole. which sucks because i have a whole middle income lifestyle mapped out, i'm ready to be middle income and live like that. oh when they ran through the louvre it was so great.. i came home on fire, speaking in a crazy french accent to myself. roger ebert was in paris around that time when he was around 30, must've been so incredible. go see the dreamers people. i've rented dancer in the dark and the virgin suicides and i must now go tend to them. "they are always there to catch me when i fall"