What I Hear

As I lay in my bed in my Harlem apartment, I hear almost the same sounds outside my open window every morning. It's always a mixture of sounds that soothe me, and sounds that disturb me, sometimes waking me up. I hear birds chirping and cars driving by, creating a swooshing sound which is not that different from the sound of the ocean. I also hear the beeping of the garbage truck mixed with the yelling of the garbage men and people on the street. There is a couple fighting loudly on the street, and a woman, who stands in the alley right below my window, has her cell phone on speaker while she has a mundane conversation, all I hear is "uh huh" and "yup" from her end of the conversation. The design of my building must bounce sound pretty far because I am on the fourth floor and I can almost make out what the person on the phone is saying, they are talking fast, but I cannot quiet tell if it is a man or a woman. I hear a plane fly by every couple of minutes, the sound of it overpowers everything else, almost like the rest of the world is muted in comparison to its vibration. I hear cars beeping at each other, adding to the hostile environment that the people arguing have created. Every couple of minutes, it's almost silent, I just hear the birds and the occasional car passing by, as if the people arguing had left, and the woman had hung up the phone, but the silence ends and it's clear that the people are still there, and the woman had just walked into the building for a minute. Far away, in the park down the street I hear a man call out for his friend "Johnny", "Johnny", but nobody replies, he is the only one I hear in the park.

Results

I really enjoyed "Results" and getting a chance to meet Andrew Bujalski. I thought the characters were really well developed and had interesting personalities. I also thought it was different and interesting that there was no "bad guy" in the movie.  All the character had their own stories and flaws but nobody had any bad intentions or negative feelings towards one another. I think this made the movie better because it really made it about them as apposed to a complicated plot. It was surprising that Trevor was actually a good guy, I was waiting for him to do something that turned him into the stereotype of a personal trainer or gym owner, ect. but that never happened, which was cool. The movie was simple, but it was done right, both the story and the cinematography. I thought they chose great shots, which I noticed from the very first scene. It was also really great to hear about the making of this film, especially because it is the first film he has worked on that had big name actors and a bigger budget than his other films. It was inspiring to hear about how things developed for him and makes me want to check out his other work. Overall, I think this movie needed to be made, it was a breathe of fresh air in comparison to the hundreds of movies that revolve around restaurant workers, baristas, and office assistants. This movie made me think about the world that people who work in gyms live in, and it made me see gyms differently, so I think it's defiantly a good thing that a movie makes you think in those terms. I've been telling all the friends that they need to see it, good job Andrew!

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