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Director: Jieho Lee
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker
Little known writer/director Jieho Lee managed to put together a powerhouse cast to make this heavily symbolic drama based on a Chinese proverb about happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. The direction is ponderously stylish with an excess of slow motion and the story steps back from the traditional western movie structure with the help of some heavy duty acting talent, but the strange story won’t appeal to all viewers.
The Air That I Breathe is split into four interconnected stories with a successful, but lonely office worker played by Forest Whitaker, an introspective thug with limited psychic powers played by Brendan Fraser, a pop star played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and a doctor played by Kevin Bacon. For most of these stories, a gangster named Fingers, played by Andy Garcia is driving the action.
The Air That I Breathe is a passable drama that some people have really enjoyed, while others make a face usually associated with bad smelling food and movie on. For fans of gangster-inspired philosophy, it might be work a look.
The Air That I Breathe – movie quotes:
“Every man has his destiny. You can’t escape it, even if you can see it coming.”
Movie lines from The Air That I Breathe
