Fried Green Tomatoes - The Movie

 

My friend Julia and I have decided it is our duty to watch all of the decent movies on the double-stacked bookcase in my garage!  We started tonight with Fried Green Tomatoes!

 

Let me just say that I wish I had seen this movie a long time ago - it is so good!  The movie starts with Evelyn, a housewife, and the elderly lady she meets in a nursing home, Ninny.  As Evelyn and Ninny become friends, Ninny tells her stories from her past about two women she knew - Idgie and Ruth.  The movie hops back and forth between the present (the 1980s) and the 1930s.  I was so into both stories, and I love how the fluidly moved back and forth.  It is so scary to see what the south was like in the 1930s!  I also loved the young Mary Louise Parker.  Her character, Ruth, is so different from her character on Weeds, Nancy.

 

I'm sure I am the last person on earth to see this movie, but on the off chance you haven't seen it yet, you really should :)

In Time

Ever since I saw the preview for In Time starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake, I knew I had to see it.  When many bloggers recently blogged about it, it finally pushed me to rent it!

In Time takes place in the future, where everyone stops aging at 25.  But...they also receive one year to live from the time they turn 25.  All currency has been replaced with time, and a scanner in your arm lets you pay with time or receive more time.  On your other arm is a clock that tells how much time you have left.  Will Salas (Timberlake) is from the ghetto, where people live day to day.  After a tragic event, he travels to New Greenwich, where all the rich people are from.  There, he meets Sylvia Weis, daughter of a rich time-loaning businessman.

I don't want to say anything else about the plot for fear of giving away too much.  I will say, it really makes you think about how if currency was changed to time, what would be worth buying to you?  I think it would really change many peoples' priorities.

This is a fantastic movie and I highly recommend it :)