If you've ever read my comments before, then you know I'm in the movie industry. I recently submitted a screenplay to one of the majors. The comment came back that it was good but needed another layer. I thought about it and realized they were right. Changing Lanes is about layers. Layers of character, layers of situations. There are no stereotypes in this movie, thus it appears to reflect the reality I have come to know in my lifetime.
This film wasn't created for the 16-24 set. It is not about simplistic revenge, which can be brutal (pick a Michael Douglas movie) or funny (pick a Laurel and Hardy). This is about real people with complicated issues. The writers understand that money alone doesn't make you happy. That most families are dysfunctional only varying in the level of their dysfunction.
It is about playing hardball in the game of life. Most of us have played softball, but we can't even conceive of what it is like staring down a 95 MPH hardball with 0.2 seconds to react. Such is the life of a Wall Street Lawyer who has it all, and yet has no self respect, as it is the life of an insurance salesman, who only wants to keep his marriage together and his children around.
This movie choked me up. I don't choke up easily watching a film. Anybody who thinks this film was a waste of celluloid had better re-think their world-view. Because this movie was ultimately about life.
9/10 Samuel L. Jackson - Superior Ben Affleck - Better than usual Sydney Pollock just continues to amaze me as an actor and director and don't forget William Hurt, the very essence of humanity. See it, believe it.
This film wasn't created for the 16-24 set. It is not about simplistic revenge, which can be brutal (pick a Michael Douglas movie) or funny (pick a Laurel and Hardy). This is about real people with complicated issues. The writers understand that money alone doesn't make you happy. That most families are dysfunctional only varying in the level of their dysfunction.
It is about playing hardball in the game of life. Most of us have played softball, but we can't even conceive of what it is like staring down a 95 MPH hardball with 0.2 seconds to react. Such is the life of a Wall Street Lawyer who has it all, and yet has no self respect, as it is the life of an insurance salesman, who only wants to keep his marriage together and his children around.
This movie choked me up. I don't choke up easily watching a film. Anybody who thinks this film was a waste of celluloid had better re-think their world-view. Because this movie was ultimately about life.
9/10 Samuel L. Jackson - Superior Ben Affleck - Better than usual Sydney Pollock just continues to amaze me as an actor and director and don't forget William Hurt, the very essence of humanity. See it, believe it.