Nostalgia
Comes Cold-Calling.
©
Jon Dunmore, 6 Nov 2005.
Seven college
friends gather for the suicide funeral of one of their clique;
separated for years, mildly estranged and rediscovering each
other like diaries in an attic.
A
chick-flick clothed in tracksuit pants, lord help us all
if we didn't somehow relate to these 1980-something characters,
with their yuppie elitism and consumerist élan; forced
to live in denial of their anti-establishment pedigree to
accept the fact that their fashionable mid-life careers
are anything but revolutionary.
So
often in life we are reminded that our best friends are
those whom we created before we created ourselves; they
spurred our shape-shift into the beings we would become
- hence the over-arching nostalgic poignancy to this movie,
as we realize the person with whom we are watching it is
not one of those initiates. Got news for you: they're
thinking the same thing.
Self-analytical
to a fault, yet oddly compelling due to intelligent dialog
and a flawless ensemble cast, every character examining
their purpose in life and, in the course of a weekend, apparently
discovering it.
Believe
enough of this introspective guff and we'll all
be slashing our wrists.
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