Layer Cake
It's a good thing I saw The Interpreter before I saw Layer Cake. This story of a successful drug dealer trying to get out of the business while he's ahead is just great. It achieves this on the back of a great script and solid character acting.
I saw this at the Embarcadero theater while killing time waiting for a friend. S is here from Japan for WWDC, and he had a gift for me--a jar of AMAOU strawberry jam. Amaou is the trade name (like Sunkist) for a particularly lush juicy strain of strawberries. They are basically perfect, and once you've had them you can go back. S bought this jar at a famous boutique grocery (Meijiya), so you know it had to be pricy... I'm thinking at least 20 bucks. The jar has a serial number on it--they only make so many of them. Anyway, I had these incredible strawberries when I visited S. in Ikebukuro last March. So it was a great gift.
Anyway, Layer Cake was great. I walked out of the theater and had a brief chat with an old guy as we walked to the door. We were both shaking our heads, smiling, and not quite believing what we'd seen there, at the end.
Fun way to exit a movie.
4/4