I watched Hamburger SV v Real Madrid today. It was quite an entertaining match even though Madrid won 2:1. It seems like the Spanish are hard to beat these times.
I also watched part of the third league match Aue v Jena which was surprisingly entertaining and thrilling. Jena lead 2:0 by half-time but then they got sloppy and Aue was able to turn the match upside down and won 3:2. Quite nice to see that there is still football where the heart counts more than the money...
A River Runs Through It
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Craig Sheffer ("Norman Mclean"), Brad Pitt ("Paul Mclean"), Tom Skerrit ("Rev. Mclean"), Emily Lloyd ("Jessie Burns")
Plot: Norman and Paul Mclean are brothers. They're sons of a Presbyterian minister in Montana. And even thogh they're very different from each other they also are very close. Norman was always the quiet and more reserved one whereas Paul, even though he's the younger one, was always kind of a troublemaker. From early childhood on their father taught them how to fly-fish in the Blackfoot River. When Norman leaves for college in 1926 Paul has to make it on his own for the first time. 7 years later Norman returns to Missoula, his hometown, as professor in English Literature. His brother has become a locally known newspaper reporter who is most known for his fly-fishing. Norman has applied for several jobs as a university professor and will spend his summer back home. At a local dance he meets Jessie whom he imediately falls in love with. He meets her parents and her brother, who seems to dislike Norman, but nevertheless they go fishing together. Or at least they plan to because Neal, Jessie's brother, comes more than 3 hours late and is still hammered. But after all Neal and Norman get along. In the meantime Paul has gotten into debt at a local gambling establishment. Norman tries to help his brother but he doesn't want his help and so Norman leaves. A couple of days later Norman gets a letter which tells him, that he got the job at the University of Chicago. He decides to ask Jessie to marry him and to go to Chicago with him. But before that he, Paul and their father go fly-fishing together one last time...
Review: "A River Runs Through It" was Robert Redfords third movie and the third one to win an Oscar. As an actor you can argue whether you like redford or not. (I do like him as an actor.)
But as a director he truly seems to have a gift. "A River Runs Through It" is a perfect combination of family problems, love, growing-up and maybe growing apart, and melancholy. And melancholy is the "ingredient" that makes the movie feel so real. This melancholy is built up by various influences. First there is the music of the movie which is always in the background but always fits the mood of a scene perfectly, then there are the actors, especially Sheffer and Pitt, who portray the process of becoming an adult and to grow apart from your brother and best friend in a very sensitive way and lastly there are these beautiful landscapes which make for the perfect melancholy and which give you itchy feet. I really hope that someday I might be able to see Montana and its beautiful rivers and valleys for myself. This kind of feeling is very rare when I watch movies and so I have to admit that "A River Runs Through It" touched me deeply, which is very rare as well.
8,4 out of 10 Blackfoot River trouts
This will be it for tonight. I will be writing a review about one of my favourite TV series in the near future so stayed tuned and alert for it.
Bye
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