I love Kevin Smith! Si, Joy, and I went to see Jersey Girl last night. It was a great. A thought provoking but fun movie. It brings up great issues about grief and family commitment. I feel that they didn’t address the grief as well as they could have. Ben Affleck’s character seems to get through the grief, but not very well and something was just missing for me there.
Identity issues tie into the family commitment. Changing responsibilities with children give parents an opportunity to re-examine who they are and who they want to be. Not an easy task (as comes up later in the movie), but children need and deserve the place of priority.
One of the parts that was funny to me – the opening credits include a casting credit. Okay – what in the world did she cast? It’s Kevin Smith! He just called up all his friends (Ben – oh, you have a new girl? Bring her along, we’ll give her a part, Matt, Jason, George) and said, “Hey! We’re doing another movie!” What casting???
Posted by Heather Voss at April 2, 2004 10:16 AM