Two Days in New York : a movie review

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actress, director, Julie Delpy, movie, postaday2013, review, writer

My hubby recorded the movie “Two Days in New York” a week ago and we had just watched it on Sunday night, we loved it and it turns out that the baby boy had seen it as well and thought it to be excellent. French actress Julie Delpy wrote this as a sequel to “Two Days in Paris” which we hadn’t seen and in actuality you don’t have to see the first one to appreciate the second one, it stands alone beautifully as a film. Julie Delpy wrote the movie with comedian Chris Rock in mind to play her live-in boyfriend and they are raising their two children from previous relationships together and Julie Delpy being a photographer is having an exhibit of her art coming up so she invited her father and sister to New York to stay with them so that they can be present with her on her special day.

It was funny, touching, stressful, and a whole lot of fish out of water situations that showed the similarities and also the contrasts between the two cultures. Chris Rock and Julie Delpy made such a cute couple but what really struck me was everything about Julie Delpy as we read the credits at the end. She wrote it with her writing partner, the actress who payed her sister Rose, she directed it, she did the music and she acted in it. The amount of courage to show herself in these awkward situations, to play the neurotic French artist, the insecure sibling, the jilted ex-wife, the stressed out girlfriend and not to mention the fact that she is directing others and herself. Watching that movie and watching her filled me with a lot of admiration for who she is as a person, someone who risks knowing that she can fall flat on her face and still does it. She is amazing. I loved the movie, it spoke to me on so many levels, mainly the French/American dynamic but even more than that on a human level. People are different and yet the same no matter what their heritage. Shakespeare said it so well with Skylark “Do we not bleed….?”

Daily prompt : An open letter

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blogging, communication, postaday2013, thoughts, writing

WRITE YOUR OWN OPEN LETTER
You can use these examples as inspiration for your own open letter, but also consider different approaches:

A humor or satirical piece addressed to a celebrity or person in the news.
A piece of constructive criticism (or praise) to a politician, either international or local.
A letter to a thing — one of your fears, a habit you’d like to break, etc.
A note to yourself at a specific age/year in the future.
What other ideas for open letters do you have?

Dear Me,

I almost never say this, I say it to others but never to us, I am proud of us and the things that we have done together. Since 2007 when we almost died in the hospital, we have certainly come a long way with our health and taking care of ourself. I know that we still have a few health issues that we need to respect and take care of on a daily basis, but we no longer make the very poor choices that we used to in the past. I am particularly impressed with our continued commitment to not smoking, if ever there was a monumental challenge, quitting the cigarette was the most intense battle ever. We did it however and come November first 2013, it will be six years since a cigarette graced our lips, that is indeed something to be proud of and celebrated. I am also proud of our daily recognition that food is a vital part of our life and not the enemy, that step was also huge and it was one of the main reasons we ended up in the hospital, but every day and in every way we are getting better and better with our relationship towards food, a little borrowing from Captain Dreyfuss in “The Revenge of the Pink Panther” I love that movie.

I have said it before, but I will say it again, I am proud of the way that we have embraced writing and the discipline to post something everyday. Something else to be acknowledged is the way that we keep up or at least try to keep up with the friends that we have made through blogging. Reaching out is somewhat difficult for us, I know, but the fact that we do it, is something to continue and have fun with and enjoy.

Keep up the great work and remember this is for the both of us, you and me.

your truly, me. 🙂