The Evolution of an Actress

I am ashamed to say it, but I never really started watching Jodie Foster until like the last 5 years. Sure there are other actresses, Sally Field for example, which made an interesting transition over to television and delivers one compelling performance after another in "Brothers and Sisters" or Calista Flockhart, who never really had to make the transition into film, and hasn't lost anything, though her role on "Brothers and Sisters" is eerily reminiscent to that of Ally McBeal. I'm even a fan of actresses like Dena Delaney, for personal reasons, but Jodie Foster is an actress I had never fully begun to appreciate until I saw her in Panic Room.

I was compelled to purchase the DVD of Panic Room because it was in the superbit format, an experimental way for Sony to try to bring high-definition quality to regular DVDs. The superb audio of the film, the special effects in the opening sequences and the scenes of New York drew me into the film like nothing else, and I was sucked into the matrix. It was one of those films that had a commanding presence and moved slowly, suggesting a horror that was right around the corner.

It was one of those films that your girl gets up and walks out of the room or talks on the phone until the right music or sound commands everyone's attention. I think my wife may have watched it twice, I watched it like 15 times. Jodie Foster was supposedly hot in that movie, a joke about the appearances of "my girlfriends" in movies like Christina Ricci, of which, well okay I've watched perhaps 12 of her movies but I haven't trolled about and hunted down all of the classics; attempts to screw with my mind I tell you, lol. Nonetheless, determined, I turn the sound up, and immerse myself in the feel of the movie, and Foster's commanding performance.