BEFORE: Well, I've been to the movie theaters twice this month, which means I've seen the "Blue Beetle" trailer twice, and also I learned that for some reason, there's another "Trolls" film coming out at some point. Why? Really, I don't have to watch it, so it shouldn't affect me, but yet somehow it does. The second movie I saw in the theaters will be reviewed tomorrow, so today's film got moved to this position because it links to that movie, and it's a more solid link than Nicolas Cage was. I told you I would get there, and I was right.
We drove out to Long Island today, for cigarettes and lunch at Friendly's, then I bought some new pillows, we'll see if that helps me sleep any better. I also called in for jury duty, and found out I need to report on Monday at 9 am. Geez, that's way too early for me, but if I don't show up I'll be in comtempt of court. So I've got to adjust my sleeping schedule so I can be at a courthouse on Monday morning
Chris Witaske carries over from "The Bubble".
FOLLOW-UP TO: "Horse Girl" (Movie #3,982)
THE PLOT: Kit, a twenty-something dreamer, receives an invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
AFTER: Finally, I'm making some work clearing off the Netflix list - it's still going to take some time, but I'm getting there. Two this week and two more next week - I've got to get to them before they start disappearing from that platform...
Wasn't sure what this one was about, exactly, but it's about what it says it's about, a store where a woman has the opportunity to buy a unicorn. Yep, a real unicorn. Maybe this is a metaphor for something, but I'm not sure what. Kit got kicked out of art school, apparently for being too artistic or something, and now she's got to move back in with her parents and feel like a failure. So she goes to work at a temp agency, which sends her to a public relations firm, but I think perhaps some screenwriter didn't know the difference between a P.R. firm and an ad agency, because the boss encourages her to work on a vacuum cleaner campaign.
But Kit starts finding mysterious messages from "The Store" - you know, the place where you buy stuff? She finds the address and it turns out to be an upscale boutique where Samuel L. Jackson wants her to use a certain credit card. JK, he makes hints that what she's really wanted all of her life, and somehow he knows this is a unicorn, will soon be available for purchase. Yes, a real unicorn for sale - but first she has to pass a few tests to prove that she's an appropriate person to be able to buy one. She has to build a suitable stable, and then prove that she can provide a loving environment, by reconciling with her parents. Yeah, at that point maybe she should just give up on the dream of getting that unicorn.
The final test is to prove that she can financially support the unicorn - and to do that she has to win the presentation for the vacuum cleaner account. Yeah, it does not go well, probably because Kit spent the whole weekend trying to make peace with her parents, and this left little time to put together a killer pitch for Mystic Vacuums. At some point confetti and glitter can only take you so far. OK, well, there goes the temp job and any chance of some weird relationship with the weird president of the company. Instead Kit forms a relationship with Virgil, the guy from Home Depot that she hired to build the stable for her unicorn. Hey, a lot of relationships have started from weirder places, right? RIGHT?
Virgil goes back with her to the Unicorn Store, and they find that it's no longer there - or maybe it never really existed and was all in her mind, who can tell? Virgil's convinced that maybe the guy at the Unicorn Store was a con man of some kind - really? How could a guy offering to sell her a unicorn be anything but legit? Especially when the store has somehow disappeared overnight... Look this is a weird movie and then the ending didn't really help or explain anything, it just made everything harder to understand, which seemed pretty impossible to do but it managed. Now I'm not sure if she ever got the unicorn or not - or she got it, but then realized she didn't need it after all? Again, I'm wondering if this is a metaphor for love or something, because quite often a solid relationship isn't going to come your way until you've got the other aspects of your life figured out. You can't sustain a relationship until you've made yourself ready for it, and you've got a proper source of income. Right? Is that it? Not sure.
Also starring Brie Larson (last seen in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"), Samuel L. Jackson (last seen in "The Protégé"), Joan Cusack (last heard in "Klaus"), Bradley Whitford (last seen in "How it Ends"), Mamoudou Athie (last seen in "Underwater"), Hamish Linklater (last seen in "The Big Short"), Martha MacIsaac (last seen in "For a Good Time, Call..."), Karan Soni (last heard in "Trolls World Tour"), Annaleigh Ashford (last seen in "A Rainy Day in New York"), Ryan Hansen (last seen in "Friendsgiving"), Mary Holland (last seen in "Senior Year"), Todd Jeffries (last seen in "The Fabulous Baker Boys"), Nelson Franklin (last seen in "Sweet Girl"), Kimia Behpoornia, Emily Robinson (last seen in "Eighth Grade"), Cody Sullivan (last seen in "Wish I Was Here"), Susan Park (last seen in "Always Be My Maybe"), Samantha McIntyre, Janie Haddad Tompkins (last seen in "Between Two Ferns: The Movie"), Van Epperson (last seen in "Hesher"), Chris Smith, Nathan Kelly, Leila Pieroni, Alex Greenwald, Matt Luern.
RATING: 4 out of 10 confessions in the "truth circle".
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