I just got done watching Selena (the movie) on my computer. I wish it had been a documentary, because that is how thiis movie felt. As movies go, it wasn't really that good. It would lave been a much better documentary.
But her life was interesting. What a horrible thing to lose your sister, daughter, wife, friend in such a horrible way. The ending of this movie was powerful, I think. The way the viewer was told that Selena had died and the family was broken over her loss was great...I've always thought that it's better to have tough scenes played like silent film, to let us imagine the dialogue AND to put another barrier between us and the shock of death. They did that on ER once, when a mommy died of full-blown eclampsia...told us that she died by letting us watch through a glass door how Dr. Greene told the husband.
Then there is the (crap) movie A Walk to Remember. I know some people really loved it, but the same person who told me I'd love Selena also loves A Walk to Remember. I watched Walk last summer with a friend of mine who is also in my mindset...we hate stupid movies. I mean, come on, this movie was the most predictable thing. At each moment, I made accurate predictions on where the storyline would go next. But the worst part (aside from Mandy Moore's limp-rag acting and her only facial expression) was the leukemia business. What the heck? That is absurd. AND the book ends so that the dude never really became a Christian...but they changed the movie so that it would be acceptable in the CCM zone. Puke.
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