Broken Flowers

Here is the first film review I have ever written. Enjoy!

“Sometimes life brings some strange surprises.”

I went into this movie not really knowing too much about it. But I had a very open mind. I figured well this movie has Bill Murray in it, so let’s give it a try. And let me tell you, I was rather impressed. This movie is about a man named Don Johnston (Murray) who has a series of bad relationships and he has just been dumped by his girlfriend Sherry, who is played by Julie Delpy. He then receives a letter in the mail from an unidentified former love, in a pink envelop written on pink paper with pink ink. The letter states that Don has a 19 year old son who is on a “kind of road trip” looking for him. In reading this it forces Don to reflect on the past. He is encouraged by his friend Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who is a Sherlock Holmes wannabe, to assess his past relationships in order to find out who sent him the letter. Don reluctantly goes on a cross-country trip to visit his four old girlfriends (Sharon Stone, Francis Conroy, Jessica Lange, and Tilda Swinton) and try and find clues as to who is the mother of his supposed son.

The thing that makes Bill Murray such a good actor is his facial expressions. Without even saying a word, you can tell what he is thinking. It’s all about the non verbal. They say that actions speak louder than words, and oh how true it is. If you see someone walking around with there nose up in the air, you are most likely going to say to yourself, “That person either is very confident or they have a great big stick up their ass.” But anyways, getting back to my point, there isn’t much dialog in this movie which is ok because you can tell what the characters are thinking just by how they act and the gestures that they make.

I really enjoyed this movie, everything about it was wonderful. As with anything it had it’s ups and downs, good and bad. Overall it is a very well acted movie.