Transcendent

Shopgirlove was utterly undone by a strange little film called "The Story of the Weeping Camel." She has no way to express the impact of this cinematic journey--except to say that it managed to distill everything of any weight in the human experience to one universal tale that relied entirely on sight and sound. Watch it without the subtitles. This story rises above dialect. It rises above plot. And action. And big names. It is nothing more, nor less, than the most compelling argument for the role that art can play in our lives if we let it. And the role that we could play if we truly accepted our responsibility to the world we have shaped: for better or for worse. 

It is astonishing. 

The Leaning Tower of Babel

So, Shopgirlove keeps watching this movie, thinking, you know, it has to be good. First of all--Cate Blanchett! Hello? The woman could read the yellow pages and it would be mesmerizing! And Brad Pitt? Not so shabby...but what the hell? Shopgirlove has no idea what happens in this movie. Although, she keeps watching it again, so there must be some there there.