I returned to Saint Augustine just in time for my dad’s birthday.  We ended up seeing Solo Mio in the theater.  This movie had been calling me since I checked the movie listings and was surprised my father wanted to go see it.  Actually it turned out that he didn’t really like the movie that much and it was a friend of my parent’s that recommended it to him.  Anyways I did like it.  The whole thing definitely started off a bit abruptly.  There were many unanswered questions and confused motives.  There was a weird feeling to this type of cliché.  Eventually Solo Mio settles into some fun scenes to break Kevin James’ character out of his hurt.  The highest compliment I can give on the acting side was how he portrayed the feeling of being left and wouldn’t let go of it.  The movie sort of made me identify with him because it all happened so fast.  We were still left in high spirits for some reason with some kind of anger about why they skipped out on so much of a story that could have set us up with a deeper identification.  That could have been the point because it never made any sense why the plot of the movie happened in the first place.  So from the audience, we start feeling for these other couples and characters while still referring back to the main character.  Kim Coates and Nicole Grimaudo also made this movie one not to be missed, however the other actors and actresses are not just filling in blanks.

I grew up waiting tables in an Italian restaurant, which I sometimes see as my second family.  Since becoming vegan and after watching some travel shows about Italy more recently, I actually lost inspiration to visit the country again because of how much they were focusing on the meat and cheese culture.  This movie sort of turned that around for me in some way.  I’m not even sure exactly why, however like the movie, it has a strange way of defining unexpected decisions and turning points in each other’s lives to create new reasons for doing something one thought was completely gone or impossible.