Here is today. Beautiful again.I went to see a film. The Old Man and The Gun with Robert Redford. Nothing wrong with the film, faultless Robert Redford, but I found it boring. Was it supposed to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but now an old man in a car? A sort of Robert Redford swansong I suppose. Another film based loosely on fact, as was Butch Cassidy. Redford, the Old Man, robbed banks, lots of them, on a regular basis, and we saw him moving across America and the names and locations and dates flashed up each time, just like in Butch Cassidy on the Bolivian spree. He meets a woman who becomes his friend right through to the end of the film, sort of knows what he is doing, or maybe doesn't. He isn't working entirely alone, he has a couple of old side kicks on the planning side and sometimes getaway side of things but Redford does the robberies himself, goes into the banks, smooth talks his way to getting the money bags and leaves pronto. He doesn't hurt anyone and talks to the clerks he is about to rob, didn't they do that on the train in Butch Cassidy? Talk to that old payroll guard? Anyway, I filled an afternoon with the film but I did look at my phone a few times which is a sign of boredom and my mind wandering. I don't recommend it unless you want to get out of the cold for the afternoon and are a Robert Redford fan who must see him at all costs. He certainly still has it, that special something, I'll give him that and everything he does is perfection. But it wasn't a film for me.
Tomorrow I am off to see another film, Disobedience. Jews and lesbians
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