Stuff that we missed out on(Movie) #1: August(2008)

Ok, in an attempt to discover stuff that has been there for a while but we all missed, I begin with a movie.

August Rush (2008), with Josh Hartnett and other random actors is a good movie, if you had stomach to tolerate movies like Elephant (2003) or There Will Be Blood (2007). It is a slow-paced movie about two brothers who are struggling to keep together their internet company after 2001 internet bubble burst. Josh Hartnett plays the Steve Jobs clone, who plans big, “envisions,” enjoy the rock star treatment and gets the company into lot of financial trouble. His brother (played by Adam Scott) is the Steve Woz of the movie and comes up with all the technology.

What is interesting is the movie’s attempted portrayal of American hubris. Hubris is a term to indicate the excess pride or confidence or the no-one-can-touch-me attitude. Of course, the concept is from ancient Greece, the biggest weirdoes of all. But it applies all the more to today’s world where we believe that despite all the shit that has been going on, nothing will impede our personal life.

In conclusion, the movie, though slow and patience-demanding, is nevertheless enjoyable. It is story of nothing-could-go-wrong college-dropouts-made-big guys when they come face to face with “real life.”