but then i don't have a story
I can forgive the voiceover initially in The Soloist because the real-life Steve Lopez not only writes a column for the Los Angeles Times but also has done several narrative stories on TV as well, which involved him reading a lot of what would be a column out loud. Now, if it doesn't continue throughout the film, The Soloist and I may have some words like Horrible Bosses and I did yesterday . (I wish my head were clearer tonight. Came home rather sick after seeing a couple Oscar-nominated Foreign Language Films-- Theeb and A War . Watched the BAFTAs a little feverish, going to have to double checked what movies won things tomorrow.) I have seen The Soloist . Once. In 2009. I remember dismissing it a bit the way I would dismiss The Blind Side later in the year. White savior for a black man in trouble. (To be fair, technically, Steve Lopez is not white, but Robert Downey, Jr. certainly is.) Having read the book recently and having spent a few hours with Steve Lopez every Mo...