Art Event #1.

Broken Flowers is a movie about a lonesome man, Don. Don receives a mysterious anonymous pink letter in the mail that says he has a 19-year-old son. The letter goes onto say that Don’s son went on a camping trip but hasn’t returned home. The letter then goes on to say that Don’s son has probably gone looking for his real father. After reading the letter Don thinks it might be a prank but his neighbor/friend convinces him that he should find out who wrote the letter. Don’s neighbor organizes a trip for Don to visit all his past girlfriends and try to uncover his son’s mother. Overall I think the movie really dragged on and on and generally had a very depressing mood. There were a lot of awkward moments that seemed to drag on way to far to keep an audience focused. There were also excessive scenes of driving montages and bland dialogue and music. The ending was the best part of the movie. The ending was so good because it felt like the climax. Don thinks he finds his son and tries to slowly tell him that he’s his father but when the kid runs away and Don chases him a mysterious car drives past Don. The camera shows a close-up of a kid in the car that is starring at Don. This final scene is open to the audience to decide who Don’s son actually was. The kid who was running away from Don or the mysterious kid in the car? Although I found the end to be interesting the rest of the movie was really bland and I think if the rest of the movie incorporated scenes like the final scene it would’ve been a much better movie.