Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers is a 2005 French-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter stating that he has a son. The film stars Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, Chloë Sevigny, and Mark Webber.
Plot
Don Johnston (Bill Murray), a former Don Juan who made a small fortune in the computer industry, wants to live in quiet retirement. He is content to lounge around watching old movies and listening to classical or easy listening music. His current girlfriend, Sherry (Julie Delpy), is ending their relationship and moving out of his house when a letter in a pink envelope arrives. After she walks out, Don reads the letter; it purports to be from an unnamed former girlfriend, informing him that he has a son who is nearly nineteen years old, and who may be looking for him. Initially, Don does not intend to do anything about it, but his busybody neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who is a mystery novel enthusiast, urges Don to investigate. Winston researches the current locations of the five women most likely to have written the letter and gives Don the information along with maps and flight reservations, and persuades him to visit them.
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Broken Flowers
These California dreams of simplicity, of leisure life and leisure love have brought you down. You dream, you live in reverie. And grasp for what he’ll never be, the one to fill an endless void, your father never could. He shapes, he molds, he deconstructs, a crippled mind and guarded heart. You need to be okay alone, to spread your wings and soar. Wounded girl what happened to you? How far did you fall? Was it the lack of love or bad blood? Let go of what they said to you. Let go of what they did to you. They don’t control, they cannot mold you into their ill contrived child. They will not love you, they won’t stand by you. They don’t define you, they can’t confine you.