21 Grams

Another netflix "rental". This is one movie I thought looked really interesting and wanted to see and then never got around to seeing it. I think it was made out to be another 'drug movie' like Blow or Traffic or Trainspotting. There were some minimal drugs involved here, but it wasn't really integral to the plot. I think I got a lot more out of this movie from little things rather then everything as a whole. This movie has a couple stories going on that are kind of all connected. It also skips around a lot timeline-wise, but it's not completely backwards like Memento or Irreversible. This isn't an upbeat happy movie, but I still think it was good. Decent performances from Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Great performance from Benicio del Torro. There were some interesting topics to look at in this movie like religion, revenge, mercy, generosity, justice, kindness, responsibility, etc. I think this is another one of those movies that can be watched just for content, or can be looked at and thought about. Some movies only seem to fall into one category or the other.