This way it's poetry.

The Commitments — 3/5

This movie has always stuck in my mind, and in Glen Hansard's passing it was pointed out that he starred in this movie, so 1+1 and here I am. First, to why it was stuck in my mind — was this my first realization of foreign movies? I probably saw it as a trailer attached to another movie we rented, and I can imagine thinking "where did this movie come from?" It existed outside of an ecosystem I had become aware of. They've got ~accents.~ Anyway, that's the best guess I can give and it altogether doesn't make for an interesting story, whoops, should have kept that to myself. I think I see why the movie was a success — everyone in it is a character; they feel like they've starred in movies their whole life and would continue to star in movies long after. There is a familiarity to everyone. Looking into it, most everyone here did fuck all before or after this, so then it just becomes a moment in time where a bunch of interesting kindling are tied together. The characters are fun, the music's fun, but it's just a bunch of sparks that fly, no real fire.