(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/lifeimprovised-poster.jpg" width="250" height="375"></td> </tr> </table> <p>This is a movie that hasn't one over-arching narrative, or even a theme (unless you count life as such as a "theme"), instead it's vignettes of several people from various stages of their lives, from falling in love to being dumped to hiring a call boy to dealing with loneliness to coming to grips with a parent coming out gay - and everything in between ...<p> <p>Now some might not like this movie for its lack of narrative stringency, but it's really also what makes the film very fascinating, as it manages to surprise and suck one in throughout with its slice of life vignettes that feel real exactly for their randomness, coupled with the direction's fly-on-the-wall approach that shows things in a warts-and-all way, while the cast plays things out naturally, doesn't overplay the individual stories' comedic or dramatic nuances - all of this makes this movie a very fascinating improvisation on life itself. </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2022"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>