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movie review - Still Crazy

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1999.07.09

Still Crazy is a movie about a bunch of aging rockers who string together the old band for a twenty-year reunion festival. The first half of the movie is about digging up the band members. The second half is about their attempts at working together once again.

It's entertaining, and endearing, but something's slightly missing. This movie drags throughout a strange, incomprehensible period in the middle of the film that loses the energy of the first third, or the would-be drama of the second half. It's unfortunate.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov