The Soloist

Rose and I had our usual lunch meeting and just had time to go to the movies.
The Hampton Bays Cinema is old fashioned, but clean. We just made it. Niether of us had been to the movies in ages. The pitch black makes the viewing very personal and intimate.
But the movie was enough to blow your mind. It moves very fast. The reporter/writer is looking for an unusual story and finds this homeless man living under the statue of Beethoven, playing a decrepid three-stringed violin.
The story continues with the intense efforts of the reporter to help this man.
He investigates his past. The movie swings back to the past and this man, Nathaniel Ayers, was a student at Juliart HS and played the cello.Because of the sensitive article written by the reporter, someone donates a beautiful cello, and the reporter has great difficulty finding Nathaniel to give him the gift. At this juncture, the reporter is bent upon getting Nathaniel back into the real world.
Go to the movie. The ending is unexpected, and the story is true. I can't call this an entertaining movie, although the music in it was thrilling. But it is true
and it touches a nerve.
The acting, the cinematography is excellent. You get great aerial shots of Los Angeles' snake like highways, the traffic, the density, the speed, and the forgotten
homeless. It is a work of art. See it!


The cinematography
covers the snake like highways that encompass Los Angeles and the Homeless Shelter.
You become part of the homeless living outside the shelter and those inside the shelter. You see music transform and these lost souls. The music is mesmerizing, and our protaganist, this Nathanial Ayers, is a truly gifted musician. I rarely get tearful when experiencing a movie, but the tears and the tug at my heart happened in these scenes.