I took a night last night to simply relax, and make time for myself.I went to goodwill and VV boutique, bought some goodies for storing jewelry and the like, and bought about 8 used dvds (on sale! 30% off at blockbuster)
Side: does it make anyone else thoroughly upset when the movie “milk” sells for $6.99 minus 30%? My happiness to get it cheap, but sadness that it’s worth so little!
Anyways. I took a risk and bought the movie chapter 27. It’s Jared Leto playing Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon on December 8th, 1980. Chapman was a delusional paranoid Schizophrenic, and Leto plays the thought process of Chapman in the days leading up to the murder fantastically.
The title takes itself from the 26 chapters of the catcher in the rye, and Chapter 27 from Nowhere man - The final part of the book, The Coda, focuses on the mental disintegration of Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman, and includes Chapter 27, the so-called missing chapter of J.D. Salinger’s classic novel of disaffected youth, The Catcher in the Rye, that "inspired" Chapman to murder Lennon. It was Chapman’s goal, according to Rosen, to write Chapter 27 "in Lennon’s blood."
Leto is incredible - he gained 67 pounds for filming of this movie, and is unrecognizable as himself, and eerily like Chapman. He notes that he become terrifyingly ill during the process – he compromises his bodies ability to hold in bile, and found himself vomiting daily any time he bent over. He commented that he would never “do it again, in a million years” due to the pain, discomfort, and health issues he created for himself.
Without becoming repetitive and playing out the details of a well known story, I do recommend getting this movie, and having a chance to see a portrayal from the other side. Obviously a controversial perspective, but an interesting vision into the mind of arguable one of the most infamous murderers of all time.
Heartbreaking.
Rich Price has an incredible song call Fall into Place playing through the end of the movie… perfectly adapt to the moments that the movie ends with.