January 1, 2021
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) ***
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Movies From 2001
My real problem is that I no longer can watch a movie without pausing it, unless I do not have control of the movie like at a drive-in or a watch party. So this hour and a half movie, that I started watching at 10.45p , I did not finish until almost two in the morning. Hopefully, this project will help me get over this terrible habit.
Anyway, for my very first movie of 2021, I put all of the possibilities of category and of movies into Tiny Decisions Wheels, because I love Tiny Decisions Wheels. I spun the first wheel and it came up Movies by Year. Fortunately, I did not make a rule for myself that I have to follow the wheel if I don’t want to, because if there’s anything I was not in the mood for yesterday, it would be watching like ten incredibly short silent films from 1909. So I spinned again, and I got Movies from 2001. That is an extremely long list that I don’t have to watch in any order, and I spun the second wheel, which came up Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
This is a list of movies I have never seen, so even though this is a favorite movie of a lot of my friends, I just never got around to it. I did see the stage musical on election night of 2016, so I kind of resented it and thought of it as a bad luck show because of that fact. But kicking off 365 Films in 365 Days would change it around and make it good luck!
The cast I saw at the Pantages were excellent, especially Lena Hall as Yitzhak, who proved why she won the Tony, but of course, no one can play this role like John Cameron Mitchell, so I’m very glad that he was immortalized on film. But I will say that I found the film’s version of Yitzhak, Miriam Shor, mesmerizing. Maybe it’s the role, who knows? I was disappointed that the film ends without Yitzhak having that big number, though I don’t think it would have improved the ending, which I loved, I just missed seeing Miriam Shor have a solo.
Basically, I thought the film was entirely enjoyable, love the music a lot, a great start to the year.
365 Films in 365 Days 