Movie review: Boys Don't Cry

And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming, posts about Peter Sarsgaard...

I finally watched this movie (and eschewed/procrastinated my homework), which is one of the ones Peter Sarsgaard is more known for, and the one where he plays a murderer (although he has actually played murderers in some other roles too). It didn't disappoint me, which is good. Chloe Sevigny was also in this movie and she looked pretty. She had reddish/strawberry blonde hair in this movie which was different; she's usually blonde. 

It was a nice and sort of dreamy looking movie, and I liked the music as well. It's always nice when movies have good music too. This wasn't really a feel good movie; it involved violence and murder, which is alright by me but some people aren't really a fan of those things in movies. It was sort of more like a feel bad movie, kind of like Requiem for a Dream, which I also like quite a lot. I would say that this could be an addition to my favorite movies, and not just because it has Peter Sarsgaard in it. It's kind of interesting that he was in this movie with Chloe Sevigny and then a few years later he was in Shattered Glass with Chloe too. 

Unless I really hated a movie and want to be done with it (like Frailty or No Country for Old Men), I like to watch the entire credits; I feel like it's a natural part of the end of a movie, and most movies will have some sort of music over the credits. This movie used the song 'Bluest Eyes in Texas' which I guess you might consider a country music song, but regardless, I liked it. Memento used David Bowie's 'Something in the Air', which is the only David Bowie song that I actually like. And of course, there's 'Extreme Ways' from the Jason Bourne movies. And 'My Heart Will Go On' from Titanic. If I were to make a movie, I think I would want to have some music by Joy Division in it, possibly.  

Also, in the latest Peter Sarsgaard news, Netflix has released a trailer for a new series he's going to be in. In recent months I had read a little bit about its existence, but only now has the trailer been released, and the series is set to premiere in mid December. Right in time for winter break! The series is about CIA experiments, so I guess things like MK Ultra, and Peter Sarsgaard plays someone who is subjected to those experiments. It's a part documentary series and Peter is going to be in the reenactment scenes, I gather. The themes seem like they could be sort of similar to themes in the Jason Bourne movies, which should be cool. Still not much more news about the Hulu series he's going to be in, but I'm keeping an eye out. 

Next on my list: Dot the i, An Education, Brokeback Mountain or maybe some other Jake Gyllenhaal movie