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Burning Bodhi 2016 123movies

Burning Bodhi 2016 123movies

Aug. 25, 201693 Min.
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Watch: Burning Bodhi 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died. Old girlfriends, boyfriends, new lovers, parents, your first dead friend – how do people deal? The reunion stirs up sticky feelings of love, longing and regret, and the novelty of forgiveness, mortality and gratitude..
Plot: Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died. Old girlfriends, boyfriends, new lovers, parents, your first dead friend – how do people deal? The reunion stirs up sticky feelings of love, longing and regret, and the novelty of forgiveness, mortality and gratitude.
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Subtlety end Insight
Really, Matthew McDuffie has done a rather brilliant job at giving color, depth, and delineation to a generation that seems inchoate to their elders and “betters.” Mr. McDuffie has portrayed an anti-Shavian universe with more subtlety than is at first apparent. The characters in his film, like many of their generation, have lost adequate vocabularies in which to describe the milieu in which they move. Their conversation is bereft of wit, allusion to history, literature, or anything else beyond their small frames of reference. No, these are not the entrancing beings who populate the worlds of Wilde or Shaw; they take no delight n conversation, betray no appetite for repartee. These young women and men communicate by way of texts, and must function in such a joyless dimension that a funeral for a friend, with its slap of shock and grief, must be transformed into a “funeral” Still this writer/director has shown these same young people to possess wisdom beyond their years, sweetness, and tolerance of the self- involved, Irresponsible generation who raised them. McDuffie has managed to capture this universe with a deft touch and a compassionate eye.

My only criticismis that Andy Buckley, who played a corporate CEO so flawlessly on The Office, is far too patrician a type to be shown in a tee-shirt and five o’clock shadow.

Review By: mhessink
‘Burning Bodhi’ Eyes Mortality, Offers Priorities
Friends who have drifted apart reunite to mourn the death of one of their own.

Losing somebody close for the first time is not a new premise for film. During a post-screening Q&A for the independent film Burning Bodhi at the Sedona International Film Festival, several people referenced The Big Chill (1983), in which middle-aged Baby Boomers who met at the University of Michigan occupy a beach house following a peer’s suicide.

I never saw the latter film. Combining Boomers, the maize & blue and an expensive vacation home screams a bigger sense of entitlement than I can stomach.

In Burning Bodhi, written and directed by Matthew McDuffie, it’s the millennials’ turn to engage in some navel-gazing – or, as it happens, tattoo-gazing. The title refers to the cremation of a guy named Bodhi – a sort of hippyish, pot-smoking man-child seen only in still photos – who dies suddenly from a brain aneurysm.

The characters here are younger and less affluent than those in The Big Chill. Two have relocated to Chicago, but the rest are drifting around their hometown, Albuquerque, N.M.

TV sitcom star Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) gets top billing, though her role is a supporting one. The actors doing the heavy lifting are Landon Liboiron (TV’s Hemlock Grove and DeGrassi: The Next Generation) and Cody Horn (Magic Mike).

Liboiron’s Dylan is arguably the most mature of the group. He’s moved to Chicago, has a job and generally eschews the drugs offered by his friends. He is attempting an adult relationship with girlfriend Lauren (Meghann Fahy from soap opera One Life to Live). But Dylan overthinks everything, and his analysis paralysis renders him frustrated and angry.

Horn plays Ember, who represents the way things were. She is in Bodhi’s hospital room when he dies, and she wants to get the gang back together for what she calls a “FUN-eral,” basically a hippie wake. On an emotional level, Ember wants her friends to be the people they were in high school.

Ember is a bit flaky, but she is the remaining “glue” in the circle – the one who gets her friends where they need to be, when they need to be there. She operates with a cognitive dissonance, dealing with people as they are today while less-effectively steering them toward the past. Her bong appears integral to making this work.

Both Dylan and Ember are fixated on Katy (Cuoco), Dylan’s old girlfriend.

Ember idealizes Dylan and Katy as the inseparable high-school couple who represent what she thinks a happy relationship should be.

In reality, Katy has had a child out of wedlock, spent time in jail and remains, as Ember puts it, “a drug bunny.” When she’s not binging on narcotics in a friend’s trailer, she nominally resides in her grandmother’s cinder-block house because it’s the only way she can see her son, of whom she has lost custody.

Yes, Ember knows all that; she also realizes she has her own unrequited feelings for Katy. What she doesn’t know, as she pushes Dylan and Katy together, is that they broke up because Katy cheated on him with Bodhi. The guy whose memorial they are organizing. And who Ember also slept with before coming out. Awkward.

What Dylan doesn’t know is that his trip home also will bring him face to face with another woman who betrayed him: his mother (Virginia Madsen). She left the family for another man when Dylan was a teen; he cut her from his life and nursed a grudge. When Dylan finds out his father (Andy Buckley) has taken her back, he goes ballistic. Forgiveness is not on his agenda.

Dylan’s roommate, grad-student Miguel (Eli Vargas), is the anti-Dylan, a guy who acts unquestioningly on emotion. His gratitude to Bodhi and the old gang for accepting him make the trip home a no-brainer. While driving across county, Miguel hooks up with beautiful, pregnant hitchhiker Aria (Sasha Pieterse from TV’s Pretty Little Liars), who is heading to California to find happiness but has no realistic expectations. He arrives in Albuquerque hand-in-hand with Aria, already lobbying her to return with him to Chicago.

With Ember’s prodding, all these subplots play out in Albuquerque, where, with the exception of Dylan’s parents and Miguel, the characters from Dylan’s past appear to lead hardscrabble lives with no visible means of support. There are:

• The remaining friends’ efforts to understand their feelings for Bodhi, as well has his sudden mortality.

• Dylan’s issues with Katy and his mother, as well has his future with Lauren.

• Ember’s search for what to do with Bodhi’s ashes and her feelings for Katy.

• Katy’s destructive cycle of making bad choices, realizing it and then punishing herself by making more bad choices.

• Miguel’s too-quick courtship of Aria.

Some are resolved; some aren’t; at least one leaves the audience with a surprising twist but no resolution. For Dylan, in particular, things seem to come together a little too quickly given the amount of anger he reveals for most of the story. Liboiron does well in Dylan’s quieter scenes but overacts a bit when the character vents his rage.

The movie’s theme – articulated by Dylan’s mother as she seeks his forgiveness – is that real love means putting the other person’s interests ahead of your own. It’s a good philosophy as long as it isn’t taken too far. In varying ways, it applies to all the characters. Some need to try it; others do it too much; some need to give it more thought.

While the film isn’t entirely satisfying, I believe it’s worth seeing – particularly for people in their 20s and others who have dealt with some of the issues it examines.

Review By: stu-00329

Other Information:

Original Title Burning Bodhi
Release Date 2016-08-25
Release Year 2015

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Matthew McDuffie
Writer Matthew McDuffie
Actors Kaley Cuoco, Virginia Madsen, Sasha Pieterse
Country United States
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Original title Burning Bodhi
TMDb Rating 5.4 5 votes

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