Catching Up with Culture

Kelli and I watched Waitress last night. It's one of the those movies we should have seen, but of course, we rarely get to see much of anything, so we're always a year or two behind the times. But if for some reason you have not yet seen this film, go out and get it right now. It's just lovely. It's sweet but unsentimental, with a profound directness and simplicity that makes it much bigger than it's modesty would lead you to expect.

Keri Russell is really good, and I have enjoyed Nathan Fillion since he played the super-evil preacher in Buffy, all the way through Firefly. And Andy Griffith! And it's insight into the confused mess that is the human heart, into the indecipherable complexities of unwanted pregnancy and unwise but undeniable attraction are achingly real. And then, when you add to it that Adrienne Shelly, the writer, director, and one of the stars was murdered before the movie was completed, and you see her actual daughter walking down the road in the final shot, it just completely takes you apart.

Here's a link to Adrienne Shelly's Foundation.