The Soloist

The Columbus Film Guild attended the Soloist at the Lennox this week. An interesting film with insights on mental health, homelessness, character transformation, etc. I particularly enjoyed the cinemagraphic queues such as the tangled LA freeways that seemed to parallel the tangled voices in Nathaniel's head. Laura and Juan thought the movie ran a little slow in parts, and others tended to agree. We got into discussion about rights of public figures like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Marcos De Silvas) and the effects of showing police mercilessly arresting homeless people for stolen shopping carts. In hindsight, I feel like the movie straddled the line between a full fledged documentary and a Hollywood blockbuster, which left it wanting. Both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. played their characters fully, Foxx being frighteningly good.