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movie review - Playing By Heart

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 1999.01.23

Four or five stand-alone stories make up this slow-paced flick. The stories follow a number of characters who are all tied together at the end. It's a good film sabotaged by some strangely surreal writing. For instance, why would a youngish twenty-something take up with someone with AIDS? I have a feeling I'll forget this despite the degree of hype with which it was pushed.

Not recommended.

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

—Wendell Berry