So I've just come back from watching True Grit! I braved the cold (32 degrees is freaking cold in Washington state people) to watch this instead of Tron, which I will watch next week, at the insistence of my dad who paid for the movie and food. :) In all honesty I didn't REALLY want to watch this movie... at all. But the female lead, Hailee Steinfeld, made the movie pretty worthwhile! She was witty and gutsy and... a little unbelievable. Not the actor herself but the character. I mean... I gleamed that she was a headstrong, self educated young lady from a cotton farm or ranch of some kind so how can she not even balk at seeing a pretty violent murder? I'm not talking hangings, I'm talking about a freaking point blank shot to the head in close quarters... but like everyone else I just got caught in her character so I didn't really question the authenticity of someone not batting an eyelash to some of the scenes in the movie. I truly think that this movie is something that is more worthwhile if you read it. I'm sure in the book, though her outward appearance may show that she is unaffected, she is anything but on the inside. And the insistence of avenging her father? I get it in the movie but I think I'll REALLY get it in the book. I mean this girl goes through a hell of a lot of trouble to see to it her father is avenged. This whole movie pretty much revolves around Hailee actually. It's her characters comments that made me laugh and smile and her determination and love that pulled my heart in.
Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges were pretty awesome too but I think Hailee stole the show! :) Agree or disagree?
On a sidenote I thought the ending was... odd. I don't know why though... Maybe because most movie endings are so ambiguous? If I could say one thing about how the movie imitates the book I would say that the ending was very bookish. A quick one or two page epilogue after a suspenseful last chapter...
~Gray's Matter
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”
Win Borden quotes
