Snow Cake

Oh my Gosh I found a good movie that I really love called Snowcake!!!! It has my two favorite actors:  Sigourney Weaver and ALAN RICKMAN!  I love it because it's about this man who meets this girl named Vivienne in a diner,  She pesters him into giving her a lift.  They drive for a while, and he tells her about himself.  His name is Alex Hughes.  She wants to be a writer, and she is trying to get to know him, so he can tell her stories to inspire her for writing.  He tells her that he just got out of prison for killing a man, and that she should normally avoid the people who appear normal like he did to her.  He also tells her he has a brother who's gay.  He doesn't talk much because he's sad, and has had a difficult past, but she brings it right out of him.  They start getting really close.  I have two favorite lines.  The first is when they stop to eat at McDonald's and Vivienne says, "So, here we are, sharing a meal. You know if I was a few years older this would be a date."  Than Alex says, "A few? You're generous."  I thought that was hilarious.  My other favorite line is when she has just bought her mother these balls that light up and play music, and Alex says, "Great, just what she always wanted," and Vivienne says "you don't know my mother mister sarcastic!  She's gonna' be beside herself when she sees these." Then right after that it gets really really sad.  Alex pulls the car out, and this music comes on and Vivienne turns it up and starts singing.  He has this big smile on his face.  He’s stopped, waiting to go, when this huge 40 ton demi truck smashes into their car at a rate of at least 90 miles per hour, flipping the car over.  Alex gets out without a scratch, but Vivienne was killed on the spot.  He feels so guilty he can't even stand it, even though it was 100% the semi-truck driver's fault.  Alex goes to pay his respects and confess what role he played to her mother, Linda, but she doesn't show any sadness.  The reason is that she has high-functioning autism, which is why I like it because I can relate incredibly well because I have Aspergers, which is on the autistic spectrum, but not really autism.  That is why I like this movie so much, because it's about a relationship that grows between someone with autism and someone who doesn't.  They end up healing each other, and he falls in love with a girl named Maggie.  With the help of Linda and Maggie, he is slowly able to accept himself again.

Well, that’s a wrap,

DINGBAT OUT!!!!