sideways....

ok, so we got a wild hair to blow through supper,leave cayle at my mom's and to go to the local cinema to see sideways while it is still in town.....our cinema has no rhyme nor reason for the comings and goings of movies....our instinct was that this movie would be around from friday through thursday and then be gone......and given the rumors of 'bad weather a-coming'......well, we dropped everything and went........for those who have not seen this film.........it grows on you.......i like it better this morning that i did when i left the theatre, which is to say that i was not sure about what really happened while i was watching.........which is kind of like life in general......and the growing of grapes/making of wines.......the proof is in the pudding, and the results don't get counted for years after.......and so in this film we watch thomas hayden church head to wine country with his college roommate paul giamatti.......as a last getaway before church gets married.....church plays an actor past his prime, giamatti plays a middle school english teacher trying to get his novel published.......and so the story unfolds in both predictable and unpredicted ways.......which was hard to focus upon because.........in this film paul giamatti is the spitting image of my brother...right down to the male pattern baldness, the mannersisms, the facial expressions, the intensity with which he approaches his passions (writing and wine).......and i was relieved that others in my party saw these same details.....and happily we did not have to see paul giamatti naked....that would have been just too much for even my particular level of voyeuristic tendencies......and so we see that paul giamatti appears to have just about as many descriptives for wines as church has for the male anatomy.......his personal obsession......and when the movie wraps up with confusion and lack of focus........i was unable to make sense of it.......time really does bring out the bouquet in this film.......which i hope was their point........hmmmm.........surely the vineyards featured in all of the wine drinking/tasting/swirling will make out well after this movie makes its rounds......at the very least the pinot noir grape will become better known.........eventually the meaning behind the movies name will dawn on me........as i said, these things take time......