movies update

[trochee]

Last night imtboo and I watched Shattered Glass, about Stephen Glass' lies and deceptions at the New Republic in the late 1990s, and how it all went pear-shaped when he got fact-checked by an online magazine [Edit: thanks to imtboo, who coincidentally sent me that last link without prompting, just before I posted this].

Hayden Christensen plays the convincing lead, reflecting the desperately lonely Glass who cannot resist fabricating stories to make people love him, but Peter Sarsgaard and Hank Azaria really steal this show as his two editors. It's no surprise that Sarsgaard won a number of awards for this part; he begins the part in a role doomed to be "the jealous one" stereotype, but he ends up being the real emotional core of the movie as the editor who has to finally doubt the reporter (Christensen) who has been betraying him.

very good. worth watching again, even.

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[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Peter Saarsgard comes from theatre. That makes me happy. He *will* for sure be in more and more films in the next few years. He is oscar bound for sure. Oh how i want to be in more movies. So badly.