The Descendants

Randomly chose to watch "The Descendant" on a whim (it was between this, "The Muppets", "J Edgar" or "A Week with Marilyn". "The Muppets" almost came up tops for want of something lighter :/ ) on SQ coming back from Maldives.

This comedy-drama proved to be a good choice on both counts. Imagine the triple whammy of having to make the final decision to pull the plug to your wife's life support in accordance to her living will, discovering that she had been having an affair and probably been planning to divorce you if she hadn't met with the accident, and that you are about to endow your wife's paramour with a great fortune with the biggest land sale that was just waiting for your signature.

And haplessly dealing with your daughters who up to that moment you didn't have to bother all your life, and everything that seemed to be falling to shreds around you.

And the soundtrack and pristine waters! (and hawaiian shirts! Do people really walk around town in those shirts, berms and slippers all day?)

Coincidentally, the director was the same person who directed "About Schmidt" (Jack Nicholson was brilliant!) and "Sideways" (made me pick up my first Pinot Noir :p)

Next show that I want to catch: A Separation