We're having a "real" winter now here in the Chicago area with temps below zero and snow. Over the long MLK weekend, I spent most of my time indoors watching movies via On Demand incluing Anatomy of a Fall, that was interesting. I can't get that steel drum version of 50 Cent's PIMP out of my mind because of that movie. Oy vey! The movie is about a married couple who has a son and the husband ends up falling out of a window and he dies. But did he commit suicide or did his wife murder him? One of the more interesting parts of the movie happened during the wife's trial and one of the attorneys tried to argue that the wife, a writer, had actually planned her husband's murder because of something similar in one of her fictional books. (Both she and her husband were writers but she had been more successful in her writing than he had, thus yet another issue in their already troubled marriage.) I would hate for someone to look at something I'd written in one of my publications and deduct that a character's behavior mirrored my own. That's a stretch. I love all of my characters, the good ones and the bad ones, but to say I'd behave in the same way as a fictional character in one of my books is ridiculous.
Over the holiday weekend, I also watched Oppenheimer. It was good and a wee bit too long, but still good. Everyone and their mother popped up in that movie: the guy who's NOT Matt Bomer from the USA Network White Collar series (Tim DeKay), Rami Malik (from the USA Network series Mr. Robot), Casey Affleck, Tony Goldwyn in addition to Matt Damon and an unrecognizable (for me anyway at first) Robert Downey, Jr., who's getting awards and high praise (rightly so) for his role. Cilliam Murphy is great and the movie deserves all of the critical acclaim and awards it's received.
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