The previously reviewed End of Watch has stuck with us all week. Mostly we're enchanted by the Brian and Janet story, from meeting, to falling in love, to getting married, to Janet comforting Brian later on. They're both at or around 30 years old; late 20s?
We're a bit nostalgic for that age ourselves, sentimental even. When we realized that we smiled.
We started A Line through the Desert when we were 29 years old. It reeks with nostalgia for lost youth, for a time of life we had lost touch with. Hold on to 16 as long as you can, John Cougar Mellencamp sung. He was right. You don't ever get to feel that way again.
We like to think ALTD isn't nostalgic.
Back then, 2003, 2004 we comforted ourselves with the idea that one day we'd look back upon being 30 the same way we were looking back at being 16, and we should live in and enjoy the moment.
We were right!
End of Watch (2012): Officers Brian Taylor and Miguel Zavalla are Los Angeles ghetto cops out on the edge and alone. Friends and brothers, seemingly everyday they are hassled by the higher ups, other agencies, detectives, fellow officers. It's all on them. Interestingly shot in a semi-documentary style, over months we watch Taylor fall in love with Janet, played adorably by Anna Kendrick. Brilliantly acted by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena. These are Oscar worthy performances. A well done and hair raising finale left us sweating. 4/4 Stars.
