Clockwatchers
“Everything is temporary. Everything begins and ends and begins again. When I look ahead, I imagine infinite possible futures repeated like countless photocopies, a thousand blank pages, and in each one I see myself, never hiding, never sitting silently, and never just waiting and waiting and watching the world go by.”
Every time I watch “Clockwatchers,” I’m reminded what a beautiful little gem it is. Wonderful cast, sly writing, humor and pain in equal measure. Watching it with Jesse last night, I was struck by the cinematography: each shot is like a modern-day Hopper painting. I’m convinced that if he were alive today, Hopper would be depicting the same bleached, soul-draining office landscapes found in the movie.
Highly recommended.
Wow. I love the film, also, but the first two times I perused this post, I read the movie title as “Clockstoppers” (directed by Jonathan ‘Will Riker’ Frakes.)
I need glasses.
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I go now.
And he needs new skin.