brekkie and Tate

[miriam_e]

Wow! I prefer to have breakfast while watching video on my computer -- the time feels less wasted that way (I hate having to eat). This morning I re-watched my all-time favorite movie: Little Man Tate. What an amazing movie that is. Brilliant!

Not only are all the performances and the story perfect, but Jodie Foster did a masterful job of acting AND directing it.

I didn't intend to watch the whole thing again. I wanted to see the object Fred makes out of pencils, erasers, and rubber bands... but I was totally sucked in again. That's certainly the mark of a great movie.

Tate is uplifting, funny, enlightening, shifts your world-view, and has no bad guys, weapons, or car chases. What a pity there are so few of those kinds of movies.