Blue Moon

There is so much you can hear in this movie that can drive you to write pages about it and ironically because of this same quality I can't find the right words to review it so I'll be commenting on how the movie made me feel over the things I will definitely be thinking over the foreseeable future. I had no idea who Lorenz Hart was going into this movie and I think that knowledge helps with the larger than life representation of him. Ethan Hawke is simply talking for almost the entirety of the movie and he speaks with such grace and form that I was baffled the entire time about how the events of this night could be recorded with such accuracy. Of course, I later found out it's a dramatized recollection of a night and I think the movie is much better off for it. Hart in this movie is a sincere look into the heart of an enigma; an artist with little respect for the audience and grand adoration for the art. Knowing next to nothing about the actual works mentioned in this movie still could not deter me from understanding the fundamental difference between Rodger's and Hart's outlooks on what the ideal form of art is. The fact that this discussion has been floating around in my head recently also helped greatly with appreciating how well it was dissected here. I want to write on and on about the incredible amount of things this movie touches on but for now I want to think about them a bit longer. Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater together have done it again.