Saw movie "In good Company" last night. It's a good movie in several fronts:
- The theme is to mock one of the worst periods of US capitalism, the era that produced national heroes like "Chainsaw Al". A period when capitalism was at its purest and worst. Everything else was reduced to nothing except money making. It's influence still can be seen in today's administration and the group surrounding it.
- Topher Grace shows his talent/ability to play a role other than the adolescent boy he played so well in "That 70's Show". I have a feeling that we will see him a lot in the future. BTW, noticed the majority of our fellow audience last night were adolescent girls, are they fans of Topher from the "70" show?
- Dennis Quaid did a great job playing the middle aged, old-fashioned capitalist role and a over protective father.
- Scallete Johanssen did a decent job playing Den's daughter. Unfortunately, her role is the weakest in the movie. Based on the need of the plot, she had to do some unconvincing things. To demonstrable that Cater (Topher) is a good guy, she has to "seduce" him, playing a reversed guy-seducer role; also for another need of the plot to make Cater totally miserable, she has to abruptly break up with him without any good reasons.
- After all, it's a Hollywood movie, it's a product of corporation, it can only go this far. But within the distance it was allowed, this movie did a superb, far more better job.
Hope we can be in a company this good much more often in the future.
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