REVIEW: THE AIR I BREATHE - starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Director: Jieho Lee
Producers: Darlene Caamano Loquet, Emilio Diez Barroso, Paul Schiff
Screenplay: Bob DeRosa
Co-starring: Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser
US Release Date: 29 April 2007
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama
Interesting Character Scale (Helen Shivers=0 Buffy Summers=10}: eight
Best scene for Gellar: Getting to know her first rescuer
on the right above is an interview with Letterman promoting the film.
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The first thing we see on screen is a quote from Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher from the mid to late 19th century. Beecher was a Bill Clinton-like progressive, and the quote reads: "No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form." Sorrow, Love, Happiness, and Pleasure are the four main characters in this film based on a Japanese proverb. Trysta (Sorrow)is Gellar's role and somehow this film, which could have been written by Vonnegut, did not get Oscar consideration. It is thought-provoking and cinematically striking.
Trysta apparently saw her father struck and killed by a car when she was a child.
The film played in only 7 theaters in the US before being released on DVD. It grossed $25,775.