CALL ME SNAKE

Granted, I did not see the movie under ideal conditions. For one thing, I started it really late because I worked really late and by the time I started it I was already quite tired. Also I was working on the Globe sudoku at the time, which is generally rather difficult on Saturday and given that I was tired to start with, I had to work even harder than usual to finish the puzzle. But casting all that aside, I didn’t like what I say in the first hour of I’M NOT THERE. Frankly, I couldn’t see the point of having all these different people playing different aspects of Bob Dylan (and poorly at that), including a little boy who, frankly, looked like a littie boy but talked like he was a man who’d been all over. Then there was Cate Blanchett who supposedly played one of the Dylans too, but wasn’t fooling anybody. Nor was anybody else. (Fooling anybody, that is.) I did not make it through much of the movie, but in the little I did see I did not see anything that held my interest, anything to recommend itself, including Blanchett’s celebrated turn.