Bohemian Delilah

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Tom says I need to stop being so negative. There were amazing things about this movie, and it was certainly one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen in a long time. BUT, what it got wrong was so wrong that I wanted to run out of the film screaming.

Showing the theater audience only a few times, I felt, really helped you get into the characters of the show, rather than focusing on the fact that it was a staged production. The movie was more concerned with the “actors” rather than the characters and stories portrayed on the stage. Garrison Keillor, GK, was phenomenal. I’ve never seen him in real life and was surprised by the way he looks, but by the end of the movie I thought he was one of the most attractive people I’ve ever seen on film. And (I don’t know if this is a reflection of real life) the way he controls the actions in his world on stage is really interesting. It gave the character of GK a real sinister edge, something I’d never suspect in listening to the real Prairie Home Companion, which I do.

Also, the camera work was truly engaging, utilizing all of the mirrors that are back stage to show so many different angles of each of the characters.

So, I do, highly recommend this movie, except…

Why did they need to have this crappy “angel of death” character? The whole thing was stupid. But even that I could stomach, if only,…

Lindsey Lohan should be forced to carry out the actions her character writes poems about. There was no need for this awful actress to be put in the movie alongside the great Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep. At the very end it’s apparent that Lohan can’t even walk in character as she is forced suddenly to play this “business exec” who has only been in her job for a number of months and she zooms in and out. She looks ridiculous, which is only partly due to her own inablility to act.

Lohan is my true reservation in this movie. If you can’t bear to see the greats upstaged by a moronic teen, don’t watch this, because she does, the camera, for some reason, loves her and follows her around the stage instead of the far more beautiful women—it seems whenever it can, it seeks her out. But I DO think this is a great movie, and that it’s best to see it in the theater for the full wonder of actually seeing a radio show performed on stage, because, at times, it does feel that you are actually there.