Another Friday, Another 6pm
Well, I have to admit that this past year’s crop of movies has been nearly a complete disappointment for me. Perhaps I’m getting too old for this kind of thing? All I see is more of the same old stuff, occasionally backed up with new technology or gimmicky remakes to seem novel.
Sigh. But you’re not here to hear me rant, right? In the words of the immortal Ludwig R. Ballantine: how much better could a moron like YOU do?
Well, first of all, I think that the best drama, and comedy, and of course tragedy, comes directly from real life. Therefore, I present to you MY life, ready to be optioned into a big-budget Hollywood all-star spectacular:
It’s the story of an everyday guy who spends his time working as a branch manager of a regional bank, mostly handling personnel issues, investment portfolios, and the occasional home refinancing and credit restructuring case.
He lives a relatively normal life, coming to grips with the fact that he’s divorced from his first wife and rarely if ever gets to see his son. There’s a humorous subplot about his (unfounded?) worries that the lack of a strong, constant male role model will influence the boy’s sexuality and gender identity (but don’t worry, this will be handled with the utmost care not to be offensive, and in the end we may all learn a little something about assumptions).
So this guy meets a wacky young woman who has some sort of crazy misadventure with her personal loan account after buying many beautiful Noriko wigs, and the case is ‘passed upstairs’ to him. Of course they have tremendous sexual chemistry and tension, and the rest of the film is about them finally realizing they were meant to be together…but I’ve already said too much…