Nymphomania or Narcolepsy? 2.0

I suppose some sort of explaination is due, but I barely have the time to write this up.  I’ve honestly just been busy with work.  And the more I work as a writer the less I find time to blog.  It’s funny how that happens, blogging sort of paved my way, and now I am abandoning it for other writing.  I suppose in terms of writing, when I find the time and it isn’t “work”, I’d rather dick around with story ideas than explain to you that I couldn’t figure out how to get the old sofa downstairs before the movers came with the new sofa, so I threw it over the balcony, into the alley.  And then when the new movers got there, they informed me that they could not drop off the sofa because they were going to need an additional team of men to pick the new sofa up and put it into the apartment via the balcony.  Yea, it was a lot of balcony drama.

What was not a lot of balcony drama was Tom Ford’s new film, A Single Man. Although the story was a little thin, the overall concept and the way the film was layout was excellent.  The film was about the day in the life of a man before he sets out to kill himself.  His lover has recently passed and the man can find not reason to live without him.  From a visual standpoint, the film is perfect.  Every frame is like a perfect photo.  A post card you cannot wait to send.  I felt like I was being sold something that I wanted, but I couldn’t buy.  Some people found Ford’s use of color saturation to be silly, like a hammer over the viewers head, but I rather enjoyed it.  It gave me the visual feeling of warmth.  Ford was also very aware of the use of sound.  Had he the ability to use touch, taste and smell he probably would have and done it well.  In terms of a first film, Ford got it right.  I really enjoyed the film and felt touched by it in more than one way.  It’s a great way to spend your time at the movies this holiday season, especially if you are sick of main stream holiday blockbusters.