I love that quote, which is actually from Tennessee Williams, because it perfectly describes the main problem with the character of Jessie in Transsiberian. She's a former wild child who has been unsettlingly settled with an uber sweet goody goody played by Woody Harrelson. She wants to be happy, she wishes she could be satisfied with the comfortable life they have made together, but she's clearly missing at least parts of her previously exciting world. So, he plans a trip for them taking a train from China to Russia after a missionary trip with his church to help children. It should be a fun adventure for both - she loves to travel and take pictures, and he's obsessed with trains. Then, as with any good suspense thriller or VH1 Behind the Music episode, tragedy strikes and it all goes downhill from there.
This movie was very good with some tense moments, but I spent quite a bit of it being super annoyed with Jessie. She makes a lot of questionable choices, and in the climactic dramatic moments she really acts like kind of a psycho. Overall though, we both liked this movie very much. It's the kind of story I am usually drawn to - throwing seemingly normal people into weird situations, and seeing how they behave, because I can then imagine how I would behave in their places. Brandon was a little disappointed that he was able to [spoiler] peg Grinko as a bad guy from the beginning [/spoiler] and he thought a lot of the plot devices could have been tighter, but was willing to let that go in the end.
Ok, Cops & Detectives week is DONE! Whew. Now on to Documentary/Historic... but not till at least Friday.
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