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In other news I watched the movie Swimming today it was pretty good.  It was one of those art type movies the video store only gets 1 of.  The funny thing is that these type of movies are about a million times better then the blockbuster type movies that the video store gets 50 copies of.  The even funnier thing is that these type of movies are always in while all 50 copies of the blockbuster type are gone. 

The above is what I originally wrote about this movie right after I saw it.  I'll try to elaborate on this a bit.  In several of my paintings I have included a person who is watching the seen in the painting, many people have told me to remove that person.  They tell me the lonely person is messing up the scene but I have never taken their advise.  The people in my paintings are silent observers who are part of the painting but also separate from it.  Frankie Wheeleris the central character in swimming is not really taking part in her life, she seems to be very much separate from it.  She seems like an ambitionless nobody who is content just to watch her life as a waitress in her families Myrtle Beach restaurant  flow by from a safe distance.  From the very time we see her we know she is out of place in the summer vacationers paradise of Myrtle Beach.  Not just the way she carries herself but her face lacks a tan and her baggy neutral toned clothes are distinctly different from what most everyone else wears.

This summer she waken out of her sleepwalking by two characters who take an interest in her.  One is a stoner named Heath who sales tie dyed shirts out of the back of his van.  The other is the beautiful and mysterious Josee who is involved with a family friend of Frankies but seems to be taking a strong interest in her, if you know what I mean.  Suddenly becoming the center of attention starts dramatically changing Frankie and her world.  She has to become an active participant in her life. 

There really isn't a huge plot in this movie, which I think is a good thing.  The film is slowly paced but managed to keep my attention all the way through.  Essentially its a very successful character study because the Frankie at the end of the movie is not the same person that we are presented with at the beginning of the movie.  She is awake and ready to do something with her life.