temperence brennen (jenny's review)

I failed to take yr advice on watching clips of Temple Grandin before watching the HBO movie, but I will take it eventually. I got this movie out of a Redbox, first Redbox experience ever. It was okay, there wasn't a very good selection but I was very happy this movie was a choice because I have been thinking about the hugging machine a lot and I was dying of jealousy that you'd already seen it.

This was an intense movie. Temple is pretty amazing. I didn't cry but I did sit there dumbfounded the whole time, which is the intellectual equivalent of crying for me. I kept thinking her mom was Juliet Binoche, too, so I was annoying myself. Claire Danes was amazing. Everyone in it was pretty great. It made cattle handlers look like a*holes. I loved the way things were written on the screen. I loved how she got into the hugging machine at first and that she fixed the gate. I'm glad she went to school and the way everything converged is amazing. Like, she ended up at her aunt's ranch and then studying science and everything. It made me think, because at first I was not in favor of her mother dragging her to college, Temple was so upset, but it was good that her mother pushed her a little bit because it seems like Temple was able to do so many things for the bizarre cause of slaughterhouses. What a fascinating movie.

The only thing I didn't like and never like about HBO movies is the overscoring. Always with the melodramatic music and I feel like it takes down the drama cos it's so over the top and unceasing.

I can't wait to see Temple explaining things.