tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88589772893732457942024-03-14T08:44:08.380-07:00Doormouse Etc.Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-29180678978222959482019-12-20T16:33:00.000-08:002019-12-20T16:33:04.907-08:00The Uncanny Valley Of Crime <div style="text-align: center;">
<u><i><b>The Irishman(2019)</b></i></u></div>
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<b><i>Directed by Martin Scorcese </i></b></div>
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<i>"The Irishman"</i> is one of Scorcese's most repetitive and least original films to date. If you have seen his other gangster/crime films <i>"Mean Streets", "Goodfellas", "Casino", "The Departed", "Wolf Of Wall Street"</i>, or other genre staples <i>"The Godfather Trilogy"</i>, or "<i>Scarface"</i>, or <i>"The Sopranos"</i> or <i>"Boardwalk Empire" </i>or <i>"Breaking Bad"</i>, you have already seen <i>"The Irishman".</i> To quote Scorsese <i>"What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk. The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes."</i><br />
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These films are about a decent guy who slowly gets caught up in a life of crime, and enjoys some moments at the top, until a friend or a vice or a friend with a vice starts dragging him down, and/or a rival appears and he either goes out in a blaze of glory or ends up tragically alone. What was most ironic about Scrocese's "not cinema" comments is that many of the same of criticisms of the super-hero genre can be made of his beloved gangster films. True crime novels are Scorcese's comic books.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The protagonists of these films are always no-nonsense middle aged white guys, usually living on the east coast, mostly in New York. Sometimes they are based on actual real-life accounts but the lives still manage to conform to the same story structure regardless of the individual details. All the same things could be said of super-heroes who are also routinely clustered in New York. Super-heroes are are the opposite end of the same spectrum of hero worship that includes gangsters, substituting delusions of granduer with fatalism. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Gangsters and super-heroes are both products of the early 20th century American culture and both emerge from immigrant communities (</span><i style="text-align: center;">gangsters from the 20's and superheroes from the late 30's</i><span style="text-align: center;">). Like super-heroes and pulp sci-fi, gangster and crime films are primarily power fantasies split down ethical lines of hero and anti-hero. The hero is required to remain within certain ethical parameters while the limits of the possible explained(</span><i style="text-align: center;">the laws of reality</i><span style="text-align: center;">), while the anti-hero is allowed to transgress while the limits of the possible contract (</span><i style="text-align: center;">the reality of law</i><span style="text-align: center;">). </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Gangsters will lose as often and as predictably as super-heroes will be victorious. Neither character is implicitly better than the other, as both exist within pre-defined limits to "satisfy a specific set of demands". </span><br />
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Does <i>"The Irishman"</i> have to be original or unique to its genre be a good movie? No, not necessarily. The film <i>does</i> need to be novel and interesting if it wants to hold our attention for its excessive run-time. It has to be new to hold a new audience (not the audiences of or in their 70's). The film struggles right away from its historical fatalism, we know Shereen will kill Hoffa, so nothing that happens between the two has any element of surprise.<br />
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Our god-like view of the events, creates an emotional distance between the characters and the audiences and this is accented by the non-linear storytelling and the for-knowledge that certain background characters will also die <i>(causes of death often appearing over character's heads like score-cards)</i><i>.</i> When everyone is doomed, no-one feels real. The films best asset is this razor sharp deadpan dark comedy, showcased in scenes like<i> "the other whispers"</i> and <i>"it smells fishy in here"</i>, but more often than not these scenes go on too long and become tedious like Pesci's <i>"it is what it is</i>" lines.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdD3qJ5HLfSZn7pwG9hV_aWf85Cs9wTXLy3LKVLLfs4OQXBXtRbSFdLF0waQV-gSQQxE-zlct1l_UGSMatU_wIC6hbfNtaKQWrBzshLf-C7lxF_OKR_3g2aPaRU2-F6Dt6vkw3Mlfmto/s1600/xxxxxxxx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdD3qJ5HLfSZn7pwG9hV_aWf85Cs9wTXLy3LKVLLfs4OQXBXtRbSFdLF0waQV-gSQQxE-zlct1l_UGSMatU_wIC6hbfNtaKQWrBzshLf-C7lxF_OKR_3g2aPaRU2-F6Dt6vkw3Mlfmto/s320/xxxxxxxx.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">A tragedy requires a little greatness to begin with, and though voice over insists Hoffa is bigger than the Beatles and Elvis, this is never backed up or explained by anything in the film. Who are the teamsters and what do they do? Who is Hoffa and what does he do? Frank's daughter gives a general overview of some of the labour movement's accomplishments, but we don't get an understanding of Hoffas specific contributions. The union continues while he is in prison, and we don't get a sense of the union ending or changing after his death, so we don't understand Hoofa's relevance. The film fails to communicate why Hoffa is so vital. He insists it's his union, but this never means anything beyond egotism. The film has time to flesh this out, but doesn't. </span></div>
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These are questions the film assumes we don't need or already know, but without this context Hoffa becomes just another gangster with a big mouth who doesn't know when to read the room. Hoffa's death is rendered meaningless, and by extension Shereen's entire story, which in the film is never corroborated. Why should the audience believe any of a lonely old man's big-fish stories about the time he supplied the bay of pigs, and the time he found out who killed JFK, and the time he killed that famous guy who disappeared? How is this movie any different from <i>"Confessions of a dangerous mind"</i>, where the creator of "<i>The Gong Show"</i> and <i>"The Dating Game"</i> claimed he was also a secret CIA assassin. <br />
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There is a film coming out called <i>"Three Christs"</i>, about three men in an insane asylum each claiming to be Jesus. <i>"The Irishman"</i> does not mention that other criminals have also confessed to killing Jimmy Hoffa, leaving us with Shereen's story as it's gospel. This shoddy storytelling at best and unethical film-making at worst. </div>
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For Frank to be an unreliable narrator the audience should have some sense of discrepancy <i>(the only reason I know this about Shereen's story comes from outside research and not anything within the text of the film</i>). Like <i>"Zero Dark Thirty"</i> this film is just going for the most exciting version of events with no real interest in history or films responsibility to it. It is the film makers who are not reliable not the narrator. So let's dismiss the historical aspects of the film and the genre elements and just talk about its main character and only POV Frank Shereen.</div>
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In <i>"Casino"</i> one of Scrocese's best films, the thinly developed caricatures of "boss", "enforcer", and "gold-digger", are fleshed out through alternating voice overs. This device is successful because before we can get bored with one pov we are moved to another, and each shift makes us consider how each POV reveals, enforces, and comments on the other. In "<i>The Irishman</i>" we have only one POV, which I would argue is not a reliable one, and furthermore not an important, sympathetic, interesting, or enjoyable one. A character doesn't have to be all of these things, but to be the soul POV of a film this long, the character should have some appeal.<i> "Man Bites Dog"</i> and <i>"Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer"</i> are bearable because they are short, adding three more hours to these films would effect their quality and potency. The Irishman might have worked as a longer film tv-series where each of the main characters could have their own episodes, or shorter story focusing on mostly Hoffa, but what we get is too much of the least interesting character.<br />
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Frank's daughter Peggy is supposed to be his anchor to the real world, and his deteriorating relationship with her a point of sympathy, but because we learn nothing about any of Frank's other relationships <i>(he has a wife and three other children who I don't think even receive names) </i>this sub-plot goes nowhere. It doesn't matter that Peggy stopped talking to Frank because the film only gives her one line of dialogue to begin with. You can't miss something that was never there. His family is supposed to be reason he is murdering people, but they essentially don't exist for most of the film <i>(and as Frank says about his victims "I didn't know them or their families so I didn't think about them")</i>. Franks family are just masculine props for the human suit he is obliged to wear, but they fail to humanize him because they aren't fleshed out as humans. They are not dissimilar from the gold watch or the ring he receives, they are symbols of his success as a man. <i>"See how strong I made you. Now nobody can fuck with you."</i><br />
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We also get almost no insight into who Frank is as a person. He was in the war and then drove trucks and then got into crime. Did he have a childhood, family, friends? We know about Hoffa's pet peeves for lateness, but we know nothing of Frank's internal life or motivations. He talks shop about hits, how to drop a gun, how to avoid being followed, but nothing else. We know he works as an organizer but we never see him outside of his hitman context. The film has time for this, if nothing else the film has time we never learn anything human about Shereen. Frank floats through his own life like the Forest Gump of crime, always adjacent to major historical events but never really impacting them directly. Even the crime for which he is most famous isn't really his, as Pesci explains the Hoffa hit was going to happen regardless of Frank's involvement. Frank doesn't make any real choices in the movie, he just goes along with the plan, and we are dragged from one blind alley to the next.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Frank is not an enjoyable person to watch onscreen he isn't funny or charismatic like the leads of <i>"Casino"</i> or<i> "The Wolf of Wallstreet"</i>. He doesn't feel any kind of regret or remorse or even self-awareness like "Raging Bull", and so we are left with a sociopathic goon really desperate to impress other sociopaths. Unpleasant characters are nothing new (especially for Scorcese who has more unlikable leads than otherwise) and can be fascinating, but sticking with them for this amount of time is something new, and when the ending is an especially forgone conclusion (<i>the death of Hoffa and fall of Frank)</i> in the gangster genre where the fall from grace is always a forgone conclusion, it goes from a challenging experience to an unpleasant chore. This is also because Frank lacks agency as a character. </span></div>
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In other Scorcese films we see mob bosses, snitches, and undercover agents, all men who have life or death hanging on their every decisions. This can be exciting cinema when done right. Frank Shereen follows orders in every instance, often lacking any context or knowledge of why he is doing what he is doing. The audience does not invest in him because he doesn't invest in himself. He doesn't make any choices. Joe Pesci and Jimmy Hoffa make decisions and Frank is just the middle man, and not a very good one, which is why when those other characters are on screen the movie becomes interesting.<br />
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I have yet to hear any critic say Deniro is better than Pesci or Pacino, and this is because Deniro doesn't have the same level of material to work with. He has a scowl...that's pretty much it. He isn't even a good friend to Jimmy, seemingly too afraid to tell him the truth of how much danger he is in, because Jimmy makes him feel important. It becomes embarrassing like if <i>"Entourage"</i> had gone on into the characters 70's. Frank becomes a sad hanger-on who doesn't want to leave the limelight. He keeps hoping everything will just work out, until it doesn't. The audiences shrugs it all off, because its what our main character has done with his whole life. We understand where this movie is going long before it get's there, and then there is another hour. Like Peggy we just start to tune it all out.<br />
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The editing is at times brilliant and at others confusing (<i>especially when jumping to different time periods),</i> and this is not helped by the abominable CGI which like almost all attempts at de-aging thus far have created monster-men from the uncanny valley. This CGI problem is the same from "<i>Captain Marvel"</i> and "<i>Gemini Man"</i> <i>(the latter has maybe the best use of the technology) </i>in that peoples heads and faces change shape as they age as does skin tone and pigment, but the tech never takes this into account. <span style="text-align: center;">De-aging never makes actors look as they did when they were their IRL age, instead it makes them look like vampires who have fallen behind on their feeding and begun decaying into waxy mummies. </span><br />
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<i>"The Irishman"</i> compounds this because its elderly actors now hunched and paunched by time, do not change their physical movements to match their younger selves, and so we again have old men walking around in the flesh-masks of their younger selves and doing so awkwardly. Casting younger actors might have given some spark to this film and connected it to modern audiences and younger viewers but instead we got unsympathetic old men and their grotesque unwatchable younger selves. Tell me Deniro's face doesn't look glued on below.<br />
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Scorcese can keep pretending that its Marvel's fault or Harry Potter's fault that no one wants to see this film or why those who did watch it, but didn't enjoy it feel some type of way, but there are multiple problems with this movie that can be found in the text of the film and not the surrounding film culture. Some may genuinely love this movie but I imagine others are defending it out love, loyalty, and dare I say it, fandom for Scorcese and what he now represents as self appointed defender of the autuers. Scorcese's Stans will ignore any evidence that modern audiences just aren't that into mediocre mafiosos anymore.</div>
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Movie fans who are honest with themselves won't be able to overlook the flaws or the ways his prior films have worn the same themes better. I would hope these same cinephiles (who appreciate criticism) wouldn't wave away the critique about the lack of women in Scorcese's films because this is as MS has agreed "been an issue since the 70s", and one that is especially salient considering how minimal Anna Paquin's role in the Irishman was. Scrorcese has said that he doesn't put women into stories where they don't belong, but doesn't mention he is the one selecting which stories to depict. He cant say the studio tied his hands, he is an autuer, and so if something is or isn't in his films its his choice as "soul artististic voice".As far as women in his movies go, its been a long time since <i>"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "Age Of Innocence"</i> is actually about a man, and Sharon Stone in <i>"Casino"</i> is great performance but its also a classical hysterical gold-digging prostitute who literally can't make decisions outside of her pimp. Scorcese is about as interested in women as he is in people who aren't white, which is to say he made a movie about some once (<i>"Kundun"/"Alice"</i>), so he should never have to answer public questions about this aspect of his filmography or of cinema as a whole. The cinematic equivalent of <i>"but some of my best friends are...."</i><br />
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When white gangsters and criminals tell their stories through film they are celebrated as the highest possible cinematic art e.i. <i>"the godfather"/"citizen kane</i>". When non-white gangsters and criminals first told their stories through music it lead to the immediate creation of parental advisory labels and obscenity lawsuits. In American media, white gangsters and criminals are perceived as tragic wastes of potential, while POC gangsters are treated as standard issue and disposable. South American cartels have a much bigger effect on the world of today than Italian mobsters, but there are no Hollywood films celebrating them or focusing on them as character studies. The most famous Latino gangster in cinema is Al Pacino in brown face. Even stories about Hong Kong triads like <i>"The Departed</i>' are filtered through Scorcese's white-Americana lense. It's hard to ignore this disparity and cheer at the same time. The hole just keeps getting deeper or in Scorcese's words <i>"And if you’re going to tell me that it’s simply a matter of supply and demand and giving the people what they want, I’m going to disagree. It’s a chicken-and-egg issue. If people are given only one kind of thing and endlessly sold only one kind of thing, of course they’re going to want more of that one kind of thing."</i><br />
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There is no sincere desire in Scorcesse's crime filmography to explore the notion of crime, its consequences, or the diverse human beings affected by it around the world, because the point of mob movies is anti-hero-worship wearing the skin of self-reflection. These are not cautionary tales, they are grown man cosplay. Fantasy football for crime.<br />
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<i>"The Scarface"</i> posters in college dorm rooms aren't there because those young men really love cautionary tales, there symbols of power like a "Superman S", but for bad-boys. Martin Scorcese revisits the gangster genre the way a serial killer revisits the locations of their murders, with a fetishistic glee that reveals unconscious fascinations.<br />
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Terrance Nance's astonishing first season of <i>"Random Acts Of Fylness"</i> has a segment where he discusses the "white savior/white devil" trope as, <span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">“The function of the persistence of the white angel archetype (the same as white saviour) in film is to mythologize and romanticize whiteness throughout a history in which it had no (heroic) part,”....</span><br />
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<i>He goes on to explain how the archetype soothes white guilt while also consolidating economic and social power.</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: helvetica, arial, "lucida grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">White devils, according to Nance, are the Walter Whites and Tony Sopranos – antiheroes who reassert white (usually male) dominance, but as criminals.</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: helvetica, arial, "lucida grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">…He argues that when the former (white saviors) feels outmoded, Hollywood flocks to the latter as an alternative way to re-center whiteness.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>The fascinating thing is that white devil narratives seek out exceptional white criminals in the same way that white saviour narratives look for an exceptional Black man to warm the bigoted heart of both a lead character and the audience.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>“I would argue that white male supremacy already exists not because “white people are the best at everything,” as Nance, playing devil’s advocate, puts it, but because society must ensure they succeed at everything – in movies or real life."</i></span></div>
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In Nance's video essay this critique begins with <i>"Birth Of A Nation"</i> and extends through <i>"Breaking Bad"</i> and the election of Donald Trump. Damon Lindelof's Watchmen series has also been brilliantly exploring these same connections between white supremacy and hero worship in American media. It's the first piece of american media to depict "the tulsa massacre" of 1921, connecting America's forgotten past to its current concerns and phobias, using the super-hero mask as metaphor for hidden history. </div>
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I'm really hoping Scorcess'es next project <i>"Killers Of The Flower Moon"</i> about a series of murders amidst the Osage native american community in the 1920s, will be something more than a white savior film focusing Leonardo Dicaprio and again Robert Deniro, but....<i>"it is what is is".</i></div>
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<i>"I Heard You Paint Houses"</i> is a perfect film title as it was for the book it was based on, so why is it called <i>"The Irishman", </i>if not as a dog whistle<i>.</i> There is nothing particularly Irish about Frank's character just as there was nothing particularly Jewish about Deniro's character in <i>"Casino"</i>, both characters are not Italian but are subsumed into the world of Italian mob cliches and make no effort to distinguish themselves. In Scorcesse's melting pot everybody becomes a white guy from New york, even Jesus.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Films like<i> "25th Hour"</i> explore the consequences of criminal life without glamorizing it, while <i>"The Laundromat</i>" finds a way to explore the complex of modern cyber-crime and political corruption by de-centralizing its storytelling and focusing on the victims. <i>"The Irishman" </i>tries to celebrate the mobs importance to American history its impact on labor unions, wars, and assassinations, and uses its sad old man card to distance itself from accusations of outwardly celebrating murders. There was some argument when <i>"Wolf Of Wall Street"</i> came out about whether it was satire or celebration. I think its clear now that it was the former. Follow the<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wolf-of-wall-st-backer-in-court-over-4bn-fraud-ks0hxflmn"> money.</a> </span><br />
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If I had to pick a mafia trading card, I would have much rather have watched a <i>"Crazy Joe"</i> movie about him kidnapping his own bossess <i>(cus that's a dramatic/cinematic scenario I've never seen before</i>), but instead we get anti-climatic point blank shoot-outs, old men talking shit, and the most overused scene of Scorcesse's career, someone afraid to turn the on ignition to their car for fear of a car-bomb.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>Scorcesse like Speilberg once had a talent for walking the line between historical drama Oscar bait and popcorn genre flick. This was a recognition that within the world of cinema there are different audiences, and that knowing how to appeal to different groups was a strength not a weakness. Not everyone wants to sit on Joe Pesci's and hear stories about "wise guys".</div>
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Unlike Spielberg, Scorcesse has come to insist that the same audience should be watching all of his films, or they don't really understand cinema. There aren't different kinds of movies for different folks in different moods, there is just the great art he makes and the garbage the rest of the world consumes. <i>"It's my union and once you see it that way it's really very simple". </i><br />
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Martin Scrocese has become Adam Driver's character from his own film, <i>"The Silence</i>"(<i>spoiler alert</i>) a catholic missionary in feudal Japan, who comes to realize the villagers he has been preaching to and who have been martyring themselves based on his teachings, do not see any distinction between <i>"son of god"</i> and <i>"god of sun", </i>and are outcast both to Japan and the Catholic Church. This is the position of the alienated cinephile, who insists to contemporary movie audiences, that cinema peaked in 1960's<i>(Hollywood's golden age)</i> or during the Silent Era or before the introduction of Color. For the cinephile the movie theater is church, but for the general audience/pagans there is no recongizable distinction between cinema and movies <i>(or big screen and little screen for that matter)</i>. It all ends up on streaming in the end.<br />
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The tragedy of <i>"The Silence"</i> is that the priests cannot imagine a world outside of themselves, a world where their God was not all encompassing for everyone. Scorcese cannot imagine a world where the movie theater is not the center of American culture. It's not though, the device your reading this on is. Audiences haven't turned away from Scorcese's mob movies not because we don't understand them, like Peggy we know them all to well, and we are simply tired of the listening to the same old bullshit.<br />
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Cinema like Christmas does not need saving. Character drama isn't dead, its just moved to a different platform where it has more time to explore its characters in depth <i>(streaming and tv)</i>. Every cinema fan wants more original art, but cinema is different than other arts because it costs huge sums of money and requires dozens of individual artisans, so unlike other mediums that come down to <i>"the unifying vision of an individual artist"</i>, the audience is always a consideration when there are millions of dollars involved. Money is as much a filmmakers tool as paint is to a painter. How can someone whose made so many crime movies be this naive about how American capitalism really works. "It is what it isd<br />
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General audiences don't want to spend money on cinema that costs more than a month of streaming per ticket <i>(and will be on said service in a few months</i>) if that movie doesn't have immediate and immersive cinematic values they can't get at home <i>(Imax,3d,4d)</i>. Netflix isn't competing with Disney they are competing with video games like Fortnite (<i>directors Guillermo Del Toro and Nicholas Refn both portray characters in new PS4 game "Death Stranding"). </i><br />
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Arguing about what constitutes cinema in a changing media landscape is an effort to maintain a purity that does not exist. Samuel R. Delany once wrote, <i>"Worrying about purity of genre is like worrying about purity of the races" </i>and it becomes truer every year<i>.</i> Changes in how audiences consume movies <i>(most are not even shot on "film" anymore</i>) is not the death of a medium it is just the seasonal changing of technology, but aging artists often equate their own impending mortality with the death of culture. I suspect these are what the lingering hospital shots are supposed to evoke, the end of the era.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Scorcese is right to compare Marvel to a theme park, because people have to leave their houses to visit a theme park. Theme parks are also places that change as you age. The body reacts more positively to extreme movement and motion as a young person than as an adult, but this isn't because the roller coasters aren't sophisticated enough now that your older, its because your body has become more sensitive, fragile, and delicate. As we get older our tastes change, and this is fine, but if we cling too much to nostalgia and loyalties to things that no longer exist, like Frank we cease to grow. </span></div>
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In Jonathan Rosenbaum's prophetic review of <i>Ace Ventura</i> he tries to figure out why an audience liked a movie he didn't care about. He considers the difference in his age and the intended age of the audience<i> "....made me start speculating about how much one’s age and the correspondingly different relationship with one’s own body tend to affect one’s responses to physical comedy. Adolescents, whose bodily changes induce a perpetual feeling of awkwardness, may laugh in recognition at the same gag that to adults serves only as a reminder of their former anguish."</i><br />
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Rosenbaum then accepts the differences in technology will create generation differences in viewing audiences.<i> “All right we are two nations,” wrote John Dos Passos in U.S.A., a trilogy that came out during the Depression: the two nations the novelist had in mind were different social classes. Obviously the same divisions exist today, but access to technology more and more defines the experiences of the two classes; and within each class generational differences concerning that technology may be becoming just as divisive. Earlier generations were linked primarily by wars and social movements, but a recent movie like Reality Bites suggests that the members of “Generation X” — a concept manufactured by TV — are linked only by their experience of 70s TV shows. This suggests that if you’re in that age group and you weren’t watching TV back then, poor sap, you don’t belong to any generation at all. Even worse, it suggests that wars and social movements — present and future — may be only TV shows or video games to begin with. (It’s easy to imagine that “Generation Y” will be defined by the video games they played, and “Generation Z” by their software programs.). </i><br />
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The theme park that is cinema now has longer lines for its roller coasters than its vintage haunted houses, but its nothing to fear. The technology has changed, and the older classical attractions haven't quite caught up, but rather than de-aging themselves in a sad bid to remain relevant they should make use of younger actors (and maybe marginalized peoples) to provide fresh perspectives. This kind of changing of the guard used to be challenge to film-makers to re-examine themselves and their relationship to the zietgiest, but increasingly artists like politicians are just doubling down on their old ideas instead of coming up with new ones.</div>
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Scorcesse tried to experiment with the CGI tech in "the Irishman", just as he tried 3d with "Hugo", but it may be too little too late. Technology will always change and this will inevitably effect art for better and worse in ways we can't always predict. Compared to Holy Herndon's excellent <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyherndon/status/1199455651170263040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1199455651170263040&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stereogum.com%2F2066265%2Fholly-herndon-grimes-zola-jesus-artificial-intelligence%2Fnews%2F">Twitter essay </a>on the future of AI in music, debating about which movies are "real art" feels like fighting the last war. </div>
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Marvel studios experimented with applying the idea of stacked programming from prime time television to cinema, using each of their films as lead ins for the next, and it worked commercially and critically more often than not. A mediocre film could be bolsted by a success that came before, or is expected to arrive after and that gives these films an extra advantage.<br />
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Their experiment has been successful, but they also had the advantage of a fan base going back to the 1940s. Their idea was not new either, as Orson Welles originally tried make a live action version of <i>"The Shadow" </i>radio-play which he also voiced, and eventually gave up to make <i>"Citizen Kane"</i>.<br />
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Welles realized the cross-over potential and new media appeal of adapting a pre-existing hero from one medium to another when cinema was still in its infancy. As with many things he was a man ahead of his time. Somewhere in the multiverse is a world where all the techniques of Kane went into "<i>The Shadow",</i> and the entire history of cinema is different.</div>
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In this world Scorcesse probably directed <i>"Batman"</i> instead of Burton<i> (probably a gritty version of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns with old man Wayne also played by Deniro</i>), because he would have <i>"grown up"</i> idolizing masked vigilantes instead of wise-guys. Somewhere there is a world where audiences waited in line at midnight to see <i>"The Irishman"</i> cosplaying as Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci in freshly 3d printed masks and no one has ever heard of an avenger. We are not in those universes.<br />
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Let's review. <i>"The Irishman"</i> was not risky or unique to its genre or its director's filmography. it fails to establish the context necessary to make itself historically or politically relevant. It has little value as historical document, due to its unreliable narrator. There is little pleasure or excitement to be had from inhabiting the lives of its solemn pityless characters <i>(outside of dark comedy about who got shot in the face and who didn't)</i>. It is visually difficult to look at the poor CGI, which is over-relied on to demarcate shifts in time, making editing and chronology difficult to parse.<br />
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It highlights Scorcesse's lack of interest in nonwhite male characters, particularly women <i>(to the detriment of the films emotional core)</i>. It fails to live up to the shoddy criterion Scorcesse just laid out in his own Op Ed about what qualifies as cinema, lacking risk, lacking human emotions <i>(like remorse, love, or joy)</i>, or characters who grow and change in any discernable way. The film is as Scorcesse described super-hero films another in series of "v<i>ariations on a finite number of themes.". </i>Usually a genre is fully formalized once it's codiefed enough for a successful parody, which puts the gangster genre's death date in 1995's <i>"Mafia!"? </i><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Scorcesse is a great film-maker, <i>"you can see the talent up there on the screen"</i>, but simply being an artist is not a guarantee of creating great art. This movie is an example of a talented artist resting on their laurels and doing what comes easily to them. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">There is a good film buried somewhere in here but it should have been edited, and earlier in Scorcesse's career it would have been. As it is this is a Scorcesse B-Side. If your a crime fiction fan there are plenty of Marvel style Ester eggs to follow, but for your average film goer, there is very little fresh material to make the run time worth the investment. Danny Devito and David Mammet already made a movie called "Hoffa" in the early 1990's and this mostly covers the same ground <i>(including the "revelatory" Kennedy stuff). </i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I've yet to read any positive review more substantial than <i>"Isn't getting old sad?".</i> I think that question depends on the quality of live you've lead. I cared more about the dead old man at the center of <i>"Knives Out"</i> from his few minutes on screen than I cared about Frank who I spent hours with. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Frank Sheereen is just not interesting enough of a character to warrant this much celluloid and neither are his <i>"alternate facts"</i>. "</span><i>The Irishman</i><span style="text-align: left;">" is </span><span style="text-align: left;">the same old gangster shit with a sloughing CGI make-over, and chances are if you've seen one car bomb you've seen em all. </span></div>
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-7857948326269519342019-12-20T16:32:00.003-08:002019-12-20T16:34:09.162-08:00The Voice-Over From Space <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b><i><u>"Ad Astra"(2019)</u></i></b></div>
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<b><i><u>Directed by James Gray</u></i></b></div>
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<i>"Ad Astra"</i> is a film that is both an internal and external journey into the space between planets and the emotional distance between people.</div>
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It is an exploration of a strained father son relationship as much as it is about personal depression and saving the solar system from anti-matter.<br />
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Brad Pitt plays an astronaught whose heartrate never goes above 80 even when he's falling to earth or figthting moon pirates. Other actors like Donald Southerland and Ruth Negga assist him along his journey but vanish just as quickly as they appear.</div>
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Outside of Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones none of the characters are half as important as the various locales which truly tell the story.<br />
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Each location in <i>"Ad Astra"</i> represents an aspect of the main character's psyche <i>(spoiler alert)</i>. The fall to Earth represents the disruption in his life caused by the reappearance of his absent father and the dissolution of his own relationship with Liv Tyler.<br />
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The journey to the moon represents the things he hates about Earth culture and people in general namely capitalism <i>(his disdain for the adverts in the moon base, and the pirates fighting over resources).</i><br />
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The rescue mission to the science lab represents our main characters anger at his father and at the world, it is also foreshadowing of the violence we will come to find at the Neptune base, but here its just animal rage <i>(a berserk reaction to living in a place not meant for living beings).</i><br />
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The underground base on Mars represents the emotions which Pitt has buried. It is here Pitt first shows visible anger and lies for the first time to the machine running the automatic psychological checks he has to do after each encounter, before he is allowed to continue. Here he is surrounded by simulations of life on earth projected as moving screens built into the walls. This "comfort room" of hopeful reminders transforms into a literal prison of memories. As soon as he emotes he is literally arrested by the authorities as a danger to the mission.<br />
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The underwater lake sequence finds him pulling a line surrounded by darkness (more foreshadowing of his fathers fate) but also emblematic of how single minded he has become (just me and the line and the void).<br />
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During the ship battle he literally becomes his father wiping out his crew for the <i>"greater good". </i><br />
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The journey to Neptune is Pitt's confrontation with himself. He has finally gotten what he wants which is to be alone with his career, only to come to the conclusion he isn't made for space, as the zero g begins wearing on his body as much as his mind.<br />
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His confrontation with his father, who tells him in no uncertain terms how little he cares about him, gives Pitt a physical mirror of who he will become if he continues on his lonely path. When he says he loves his father, he is as much saying he loves himself, and recognizing how all human beings need for other human beings even if they say they don't. </div>
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When he and his father are finally in space his father attempts to pull them both suicidally into the abyss. This is price of love paid instantly, as Pitt now has to let go of the only thing he has admitted to caring about. Love is never a guarantee, and sometimes will never be returned. </div>
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The anti-matter/nothing matters engine is a metaphor for the nihilism or state of depression that arises after the absence of a "higher being"<i>(like a God or a parent)</i> is lost. </div>
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Pitt finds resolve to carry on because the absence of alien-life confirms "were' all we've got", and uses his father's death and the nuclear blast of the neptune base to propel him back to earth where his new priorities are to engage with his estranged spouse. The film ends with him completing another psych eval <i>(suggesting he's still in the space-coprse)</i> but perhaps now doing it for himself and finally outside of his famous father's shadow. </div>
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For all its emphasis on psychology the film never forgets to be visually appealing. We are treated to multiple beautiful pov tracking shots of Pitt moving through futuristic environments inspired as much by <i>"2001: A Space Odyssey"</i> as <i>"THX1138</i>" or <i>"Blade Runner: 2049"(and that's the sort of pedigree this film is aiming for)</i>. Set design and color go to great lengths emobdying the emotional aspects of the film in physical terms. Every shot in this movie is purposeful and reinforces what comes next and no frames are wasted. </div>
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The score composed by Max Richter and melodic and fills up the silence that almost all sci-fi films feel oblidged to fill with machine noises. "Ad Astra" allows space to actually be silent, and its made all the more haunting for it. </div>
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My only complaint about the film is that because we are dealing with human beings prone to long periods of isolation, their performances can appear stiff and wooden, but I'm willing to overlook this as it is in keeping with their character. It is a serious and humorless film which isn't helped by the only real human interactions Pitt has being multiple mission updates we receive from emotionless military personel across the run-time. The plot is the story's weakest link.</div>
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There is some hard-sci fi futurism that I find interesting enough <i>(mention of artic wars, the moon pirates, the baboons),</i> but other aspects like the anti-matter engine that can destroy the solar system fall flat. Why are we building things that can blow up the entire solar system? This too falls to metaphor, as the search for intelligent life beyond humanity, is here framed in almost religious terms, and certainly anti-humanist ones.<br />
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The drive to find something beyond human has caused Tommy Lee Johns to forsake humanity entirely, just as his desire for something more than a normal life, leads him to abandon his family. The bomb is not the threat, is the quest for something beyond.<br />
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The film works better on its metaphorical and visual levels, and in doing so almost veers into Terrance Malick cosmic poetry jam like <i>"The Tree Of Life" (which Pitt also stared in). </i>but stops short of going off the deep end. The film manages to strike a balance between outer action and inner-monologue capturing the best of both worlds, even as its characters often fail to appreciate the world around them.<br />
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The mingling of inner sates and genre forms reminded me most of Alejandro Jodorowsky in his prime, but with a modern glossier aesthetic. Like <i>"Gravity", "Interstellar", "Contact", "Passengers", "The Whispering Star", "High Life", "Lucy In The Sky", "Moon",</i> and <i>"The Martian"</i> this is a movie that uses space as a metaphor for human connection and lack thereof.<br />
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These are the sad astronaughts, for whom space itself is an existential void. "Ad Astra" is sci-fi naturalism where instead of the old man and the sea, we have the middle aged man and the shuttle. The big fish can be represented by any number of space related survival challenges.<br />
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As we approach a time when commercial space flight is becoming a possibility, the vast unknown of the universe seems smaller and more inevitable. Despite the navy releasing official UFO footage, aliens increasingly are absent from sci-fi narratives, as we come to think more about the immediate human cost of life outside of Earth. <i>"Ad Astra"</i> does not find space exciting or triumphant, it is a dirty, difficult business which reduces life to survival.<br />
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It reminds us to appreciate the little things like air, landscapes, and human contact. My favorite aspect of the film is the psych evals which demands Pitt to be completely honesty with himself, and will not let you continue your work if it senses any deception. It's the things we cant say, won't say, and gloss over, which keep us from growing and which like faulty anti-matter engines always end up leaking out in the end.<br />
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<i><b> Zero Dark Thirty(2012)</b></i></div>
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<i><b> directed by Kathryn Bigelow</b></i></div>
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<i><b>Django Unchained(2012)</b></i></div>
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<i><b> Directed by Quentin Tarantino</b></i></div>
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<i>"Zero Dark Thirty"</i> and <i>"Django Unchained"</i> both feature white people torturing brown people, allot.<br />
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This will bother some people on a basic visceral level that will automatically switch off all critical engagement. </div>
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Both films distort history, but each does so in different ways. </div>
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QT revenge dramas are about the cinematic representation of whatever subjects he's discussing. </div>
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So "<i>Inglorious Basterds" </i>is not about WW2 its about WW2 movies, and likewise "<i>Django Unchained"</i> is not about slavery or racism but about movies about slavery and racism.</div>
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<i>John Wayne's</i> views on white superiority are not far from Dicaprios discussion of phrenology, and <i>Cormac Mcarthy's Blood Meridian</i> (<i>last time I checked still widely considered one of top 5 western novels of the the 19th century)</i> was infinitely more violent than anything in Django.<br />
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QTs attempt to subvert the western with a black cowboy, owes more to <i>Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles", Ishmael Reeds </i>anarchic novel <i>"Yellow Back Radio Broke Down"</i>, and Italian exploitation pseudo-documentary about the Antebellum south <i>"Goodbye Uncle Tom", </i>than his more general blacksploitation and spaghetti western influences on display in all of his films.<br />
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All of those films came out in QTs beloved seventies pop-culture prism <i>(as Godard before him appropriated the second hand pop and style of American noir or comic book heroes like Lemmy Caution to his own purposes.)</i><br />
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Like <i>"Inglorious Basterds"</i> before it, Django it challenges liberal sacrosanct victim-hood idols like slavery and the holocaust and their conservative heroic history-smudging counter-parts the lone wolf, tough as nails, heart of gold American cowboy and the over-emphasis on the messianic American WW2 generation, who ended the war all by themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">QT is not to every ones taste and he never will be<i> (either too talky, to violent, too snarky etc</i>) but compared to historical status-quo affirmations like the ever more diluted <i>Les Miserables </i> and the visually attractive but soul-dead "<i>Anna Karennina"</i> which bypass all critical discourse due to their literary pedigree, <i>"Django Unchained</i>" is historically and culturally alive and engaged in ways those films like their authors are long dead.</span></td></tr>
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<i>"Zero Dark Thirty" </i>doesn't have the hysterical soap opera melodrama of something like <i>"Homeland",</i> to make it bearable, and so becomes like <i>"The Social Network"</i> a film of board room meetings and conference calls.<br />
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As the emergency state panic of<i> "24"</i>, gave way to The Surge uncertainties of<i> "The Hurt Locker"</i> so does the bi-polar romance between liberal self-flagellation and conservative hawkish chest thumping of <i>"Homeland"</i> mirror Obama term part 1, and the the cold mature semi-autistic emotional and intellectual detachment of <i>"Zero Dark Thirty"</i> reflect the present.<br />
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We've just murdered your family, but we are humane...please enjoy this glowstick.<br />
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The fact that both men and woman can now participate in military activities like torture is the way we measure progress.<br />
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<i>Zero Dark Thirty</i> poses the problem of social realism.<br />
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Kathryn Bigelow is technically right when she says that everything in the film is accurate, it depicts the official government record of the hunt for <i>Osama Bin Laden.</i><br />
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The fact that this reality is in question by the majority of the rest of the world including areas of the US. non-military government, is outside the narrow scope of the films aims or concerns.<br />
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The film conforms to a view that will most likely be taken as a give-in in US public school books.<br />
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That this narrative does not represent the entirety of reality, the full complexity of its subject, does not mean it does not represent its subjects reality.<br />
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A portrait of a face, but a face in profile, a face half turned out of view is not a false face its just half a face. A half-truth.<br />
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Both films try to recreate history but<i> Zero Dark Thirty</i> tries to do so by appealing to fact while Django Unchained tries to recreate history by appealing to mythology.<br />
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QT's <i>Inglorious Basterds</i> revolved around a plan to infiltrate Nazi France via film theaters, film openings, fake film crews, and propaganda stars likewise Django's plan to infiltrate pre-Confederate Mississippi through the exoticism of black violence as white entertainment in the mandinjo fights directly challenges his critics half-cocked assumptions about racial exploitation.<br />
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These same critics focus on <i>Sam Jackson's</i> performance as the Overseer, which is good but also essentially <i>The Boondock's Uncle Ruckus</i> come to life.<br />
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<i>The Boondocks</i> share a producer in Django with <i>Reginald Hudlin,</i> and<i> Sam Jackson</i> is also a voice actor on the series as a privileged white wannabe gangsta whose father is the town's resident billionaire capitalist and the series prime antagonist.<br />
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<i>Aaron Mcgruder</i> the series creator also co-wrote this years <i>"Red Tails"</i> a WW2 epic about the <i>Tuskegee Airmen </i>produced by <i>George Lucas</i>. <i>"Red Tails" </i>is the squeaky clean story of African American underdog excellence, historically accurate and by comparison to Django like a History channel special during <i>Black History Month </i>or any film about a primarily black <i>(or to use the post-racial euphemism "urban")</i> team doing anything ever.<br />
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<i>"Red Tails"</i> is more concerned with getting the story of the <i>Tuskegee</i> heroes out into the general consciousness than it is with making the best film possible. One of the reasons why historical distance and artistic licence are so necessary, is it allows us to examine the past with fresh eyes, and is exactly why the Chinese government currently censors the kind of alternative history that Django so freely plays with.<br />
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Django not bound by historical accuracy, <i>(though as of yet I have not heard any specific instances of anything in the film being historically inaccurate</i>) if anything the violence of slavery was much more brutal <i>(like after Django's capture he would have certainly been castrated, mutilated, and THEN sent to the mine).</i><br />
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There are different types of violence from the slapstick of people hurting themselves to the disturbing limits of people hurting each other, and what divides people on Tarantino is that he employs so many different strategies of violence together in the same film.<br />
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There are scenes of intense horror and dramatic tension, scenes of surprise and shock, scenes of visceral kinetic action bordering on dance, and scenes of intense orgiastic carnage.<br />
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Most people can tolerate the lighter forms of slapstick, action, and tension, but draw the line at shock, gore, and degradation.<br />
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QT moves freely between extremes, in service to maximizing his mythological deconstructions of the Westerns preoccupation with the historical highlights white supremacy <i>(now on Display this summer with Johnny Depp in full Indian Head Dress as the lovable Tonto in Disney's The Longer Ranger)</i> while ignoring the unpleasant ramifications.<br />
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The same manifest destiny that lead to wagon trails, the goldrush, and the wild wild west also lead to the indigenous genocide of the continent and the horrors of slavery.<br />
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<i>Katheryn Bigelow</i> could have made a version of <i>"Django Unchained"</i> that breezed past all scenes involving slaves being treated poorly or referred to with harsh language<i> (what word besides the n-word would have been historically accurate?)</i><br />
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The most hilarious reviews of <i>"Django Unchained"</i> have included critics complaining about the use of the word "nigger"<i> (only emphasising their disconnection from modern as well as antebellum African American experience)</i>.<br />
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<i>Christoph Waltz</i> feeling of being obliged to help a real-life Siegfried also emphasizes some of the better nature of the cross cultural traditions of pop heroes, the same that lead QT to appear in <i>Takashi Miike's</i> Japanese set <i>"Sukiyaki Western Django".</i><br />
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Django unchained slave-turned hero is also not without precedent from <i>Moses</i> to <i>Spartacus</i> to <i>Conan The Barbarian</i> to African American sci-fi and fantasy author<i> Samuel R. Delany's Tales Of Neveryon</i> series, the latter combines the homoerotic elements of Spartacus with the mythology of <i>Conan The Barbarian's</i> sword and sorcery universe, into a dense and florid series of stories about a black hero on a crusade to end slavery while confronting his own fetish for sexual bondage, that explores the notion of fetish from its earliest African root, to its psycho-sexual reinterpretation by <i>Freud</i>, and then again into the commodity fetishism of Marx.<br />
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<i>"Django Unchained"</i> is not as complex as all that it barely scratches a very deep surface, but its willingness to at least wade out into these complex waters, even if only to dip the feet of audiences who usually remain far from such shores controversial shores is commendable.<br />
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<i>"Django Unchained"</i> is the better film for taking a stance contrary to reality but informed by a deeper commitment to beliefs concerning real-life than <i>"Zero Dark Thirty's</i>" attempt at avoiding confrontation by parroting official facts which leaves us with an at best hollow and at worst misinformed view of history.<br />
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Django doesn't make us reassess slavery but re-asses white dominance especially in central heroic representations.<br />
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In an age where <i>Vin Diesel, The Rock,</i> and<i> Ice Cube</i> can be looked toward equally as action heroes and wacky dads in Disney family comedies some might argue that <i>Django Unchained's</i> anger at a world without black heroes, is second-hand for QT especially in the post-racial Obama-verse.<br />
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I would argue that though there are certainly more African Americans and non-whites in general in triumphant roles, for every <i>Will Smith</i> there are dozen cases of films like <i>"Avatar: "The Last Air Bender"</i> and <i>"The Prince Of Persia",</i> only recently did <i>"Cloud Atlas" </i>actually confounds the white supremacist notion of race-face by universalizing it across the races an genders of its cast.<br />
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Django's impossibility also reminds us of the totality of the slave system that was more likely to produce men like Sam Jackson than anything else.<br />
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<i>"Zero Dark Thirty's"</i> avoidance of any discussion of race, religion, gender, or ideology makes it feel like a police procedural without likable characters.<br />
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<i>"Zero Dark Thirty"</i> I have already read described as the mature and adult examination of the outcomes of the juvenile violence of Django, and as should be obvious if you have read this far, I believe the reverse is true.<br />
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Django exposes the white supremacist attitudes that by the time of <i>"Zero Dark Thirty"</i> have re-clothed themselves in different language that avoids discussion, through euphemisms like "clash of civilizations".<br />
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Though as those of us who were stunned by trailers for <i>"The Impossible"</i> have recently noted even Asian natural disasters must be viewed through the perspective of pale vacationing westerners.<br />
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So yes there was allot of violence in the movies this winter, and yes there was allot of torture but the different types of violence and the different types of torture reveal vastly different things about themselves and about American History from the distant to the very recent.<br />
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Django uses fantasy to clarify our language of representation and build new mythologies out of previously antithetical binaries like blacksploitation and the western, transforming them into something uniquely vulgarly American, while<i> "Zero Dark Thirty"</i> misses the forest through the trees and narrowly keeps us on a path where it would seem impossible to do anything but repeat history.<br />
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<b><i>Cloud Atlas(2012)</i></b></div>
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<i> </i><span style="text-align: center;"><i>"Cloud Atlas</i>" is a film about the connections between human lives across centuries similar to </span><span style="text-align: center;"><i>Bill Forsyth's "Being Human"</i> and<i> D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance".</i></span><br />
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<i>"The Master"</i> is a film about a manic drifter who meets up with a charismatic cult leader who claims to have known him in another time. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The drifter joins his group and struggles with his faith in the leader, like other recent independent films <i>"Sound Of My Voice"</i> and <i>"Martha Marcy May Marlene".</i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>"Cloud Atlas" </i>is essentially a </span>literalized<span style="text-align: center;"> version of <i>"The Master's" </i>cult ideology The Cause and its belief in past traumas and conjoined souls interconnected across history, but <i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> arguments are seemingly metaphysics while <i>"The Master"</i> are existential.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>"The point of this exercise is to Pick a direction, any direction, and then drive as fast as you can"</i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">When </span>Dodd<span style="text-align: center;"> finally tells Freddie about the past life they shared together, its a devastating blow, an obvious manipulation to win him back to the cause of spreading the message with </span>Dodd<span style="text-align: center;">. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>"We never lost a single balloon".</i> </span><br />
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In <i>"Cloud Atlas" </i>the characters of the six stories all share a physical link through (<i>inhales deeply</i>) a lawyer on a slave trading mission in the 1850's whose journal is being in 1931 by a suicidal gay musician in a copyright feud, who writes letters to his lover, which are later discovered as part of a murder mystery in 1973 by a journalist whose story becomes the basis of a novel, later read in 2012 by an editor wrongfully incarcerated in an insane asylum whose story becomes a b-movie a small scene of which inspires a enslaved clone <i>(for whom all media is forbidden</i>) in a dystopian future to become a martyr, later the icon of her martyrdom becomes a goddess to tribe of post apocalyptic people, and the discovery of the icons lineage leads to exodus of the last humans from the dying earth, all of which finally is being told around a campfire on a new planet, by the same post apocalyptic man from the final story who seems to have become fully aware of his past lives and all their connections making him The Master.<br />
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<i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> presents characters linked by spiritual and artistic collaboration but each life in and of itself is too thin to mean anything.<br />
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This is an important distinction to make, especially for those who argued the film is too soft and new-age.<br />
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In <i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> our individual lives are full of random petty scramble for money, property, and survival <i>(every stories conflict in Cloud Atlas progresses in an almost systemic fashion about the problems of ownership and trade)</i> and even the moments which transcend these limitations are often meaningless to our lives, but attain purpose through history.<br />
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<i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> is less about reincarnation and more about historical materialism, though interestingly many of the objects lose their historical significance over time and their misinterpretation is often more important than being understood in context most dramatically in the dystopian clone's appropriating of a bit of unfunny comic dialog into a revolutionary maxim <i>(nicely echoed earlier in the film when the old man shouts "soylent green is people!" while the orderlies give chase).</i><br />
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Likewise I now feel that to go the opposite extreme, and say <i>"The Master"</i> is only existential posturing about chaos and meaninglessness is similarly too reductive, though its certainly how I felt for the first few hours after leaving the theater.<br />
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<i>"The Master" </i>(<i>the film, though Philip Seymor Hoffman is also referred to as Master by his followers, for the sake of this review I use Hoffman or Dodd</i>) gives Freddie a back story but makes <i>"The Master" </i>opaque so that viewing the two equally psychologically is impossible.<br />
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This incongruity is important, because aside from a cold hearted handjob he receives from his wife, we get no images of Dodd outside of his position as Master.<br />
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Dodd has given himself over to his character and to the image of himself he has created completely .<br />
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Freddie naturally in his finds this appealing, and he also finds a sense of purpose, community, and self control in The Cause that was never possible in his family <i>(destroyed by incest, alcoholism, and madness making him basically the skinny white trash "Precious")</i>, in the military where was taught to <i>"kill Japs"</i> but not to feel bad about it, in any job situation from urban department store civility to hard labor in open fields, or in situations that have no toxic substances necessary for moonshine making.<br />
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I don't think Freddie ever really believes in the Cause but he thinks trying to believe it will make him a better man.<br />
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A man more like Dodd.<br />
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In Dodd he trusts.<br />
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When first exposed to Dodd's adjusted version of the talking cure, Freddie makes breakthroughs in evaluating his life and whats important to him.<br />
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Even the Causes restrictions on sex and alcohol, give him a level of focus that he could have never mustered under his own willingness.<br />
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The precise moment when Freddie realizes he has no more to learn from Dodd is during Dodd's speech at the convention when he says <i>"the secret...is laughter",</i> quoting something he himself learned from Freddie's first examination.<br />
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In a normal Master apprentice dynamic this is when Freddie would either become a Master himself or leave.<br />
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Freddie leaves.<br />
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But when his dreams are again crushed he returns to the only spiritual structure he knows, but has simply outgrown.<br />
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Dodd and Freddie's last exchange is the the point at which genuine spiritual improvement becomes supplication to organizational dogma.<br />
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<i>"Maybe in the next life?". "In the next life you and I will be enemies and I will show you no mercy".</i><br />
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Freddie like the Fool in <i>Alejandro Jodorowsky's </i><i>"The Holy Mountain"</i><b>,</b> is sent back down from the precipice where quest for ultimate wisdom bleeds into the ultimate eternal fool's errand, to find a woman and life and make his own mountain, only Freddie makes a holy mountain out of a woman made of sand.<br />
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I don't see "<i>The Master's</i>" final scene of Freddie in bed with the bar girl as a backslide or a symbol of how everyone repeats the same power games endlessly, but about Freddie's ability to see the power games for what they are, to be able to laugh at them<i> (instead of flying into rages),</i> and to enjoy playing such games without needing an ultimate revelation.<br />
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Where Tom Hanks savage man eventually learns he is a part of everyone, Freddie is forced to accept that he is a part of no one, sometimes not even himself.<br />
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Both are equally true in context, since Hanks is literally surrounded by generations of family (a clear physical legacy of his impact on earth) while Freddie is with a girl he met in a bar, but who is no more substantial to him than the sand woman was from his time in the war.<br />
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For Freddie having a one night stand at a bar is the equivalent of masturbating with an person shaped object; an idea of lust, peace, and lost affections, but as ephemeral as a sand castle just the same.<br />
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<i>"All we are is dust in the wind",</i> as the song goes.<br />
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<i>"Cloud Atlas" </i>and <i>"The Master"</i> have been two of my favorite films this year, though both are at opposite ends of the same political and philosophical spectrum.<br />
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Both films are full of actorly excesses which cross playfully between the tragic and comic often in mid scene, unexpectedly stirring and unintentionally funny, but <i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> is a sprawling anthology film across time and space, where <i>"The Master"</i> is an at times claustrophobic close character study that takes place mostly in the 1950's<i>.</i><br />
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<i>"Cloud Atlas"</i> is about political struggle materializing through history in a common bond of souls past and future, while <i>"The Master"</i> argues that collective actions degenerate into petty s&m games for dominance and control, and sometimes nothing can be trusted, included even ourselves<i> (subject as our minds are to addictions, obsessions, and hierarchies).</i><br />
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Both films agree that human life in and of itself is meaningless, but Cloud Atlas believes in an egalitarian ethos of "all for one and one for all" (as <i>Timothy Cavendish</i> says to his fellow retired escapees), while <i>"The Master"</i> is clearly indebted to Camus absurdism, as Dodd tells Freddie, <i>"If you have figured out a way to go through life without a master you would be the first in human history".</i><br />
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The absence of God/Structure does not create freedom, but an unquenchable <i>(absurd) l</i>onging for meaning, that can only be redirected to other targets, but remains fundamentally absurd no matter which way you point it.<br />
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The campfire as a symbol for collective unity and a place for sharing dreams, and the sex with a sand woman as an image of the lonely lengths we will go to create something from nothing.<br />
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Both are occurring at the same time at different ends of the same shore.<br />
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Its easy to imagine the critic in the doorway from "The Master" lurking at the end of "Cloud Atlas" saying <i>"First you can cure cancer, now you claim to be able to stop the bomb and save the world?"</i><br />
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Just as its easy to imagine Dodd and Freddie meeting again in the future where Dodd is the villainous space captain Xenu and Freddie is leading a thetan army of ghost slaves back to their stolen bodies and the promise of freedom.<br />
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Its really just a matter of ideology and personal temperament that separates liking one film or hating the other.<br />
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<b><i>The Avengers(2012)</i></b></div>
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<i><b> Directed by Joss Whedon</b></i></div>
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<i>The Avenger's, Joss Whedon's</i> adaptation of the comic book series that began in 1963, is so far, the best action film of the year, and my favorite super-hero film in years. </div>
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It is not necessary to have seen both I<i>ron Man</i> films, <i>The Incredible Hulk, Thor,</i> and <i>Captain America</i> to understand <i>The Avengers.</i></div>
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Those films are not so much prequels as bonus features, thin connective membranes to create what is now called the <i>Marvel </i>cinematic universe. </div>
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The plot follows exiled Norse god of mischief <i>Loki,</i> in his attempts to conquer earth on behalf on an alien race he now works for, leaving <i>Nick Fury</i> head of S.H.I.E.L.D, a super-C.I.A. organization, with no choice but to organize a team of the world's most unique heroes. </div>
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Born of military panic, <i>The Avengers</i> find themselves between rampant institutional corruption and approaching alien apocalypse, both of which no single super-human could defeat on his own. </div>
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The majority of the film resembles the monster mash at the end of <i>Cabin in The Woods</i> but extended for almost two and a half hours at a break neck pace that comes closer to the fluid hyperactivity of super hero comics <i>(as opposed to like the visual density of the page, and its ability to warp time with all that slow-motion in Watchmen</i>) than any film so far, not just in its depictions off action but in its delirious pacing and logic (<i>despite the pains taking 5 films worth of origins</i>). </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I think allot of people are expecting a more talky TV style Whedon, but the last few years he's also been writing comics like </span><i style="text-align: center;">Astonishing X-Men</i><span style="text-align: center;"> and </span><i style="text-align: center;">Buffy The Vampire Slayer</i><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;">(which picks up where the show left off).</i><br />
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This film owes as much to his time working with these types of stories on paper as it does his skills in adapting and adapting well in multiple mediums <i>(taking to his own TV shows and turning them into films, making TV shows out of other peoples films etc.)</i></div>
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<i>Chris Nolan's</i> <span style="text-align: center;"><i>Batman</i> had to abandon his life's work to be able to comfortably enjoy normal human moment, like eating dinner with Catwoman, at <i>The Dark Knight Rises</i>' end, <i>The Avengers (in an Easter egg, infinitely superior The Grey's muddled epilogue)</i>, can comfortably and self-effacingly enjoy a group shawarma without it being the end of their identity. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">There is a mature comfort here among supernatural beings who are comfortable with themselves, who aren't caught in perpetual angst and personality crisis, that gets to the heart of what's so refreshing about a film like this, its impenetrable flatness</span><span style="text-align: center;">. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Personal issues and empty character flaws, designed to simulate human multi-dimensionality in, the usual origin bullshit, are only explored in one intentionally brief scene of squabbling. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The eventual ape like tool brandishing, recalling, maybe just for me I'll admit, <i>"2001: A Space Odyssey"</i> opening scene, that's puts in perspective the pettiness of individual problems aloud to dominate so many mundane dramas and their desperate sci-fi and action imitators</span><span style="text-align: center;">. </span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="text-align: center;"><i>The Avengers</i> unlike the previous generations of monster movie mash-ups, emphasizes, some might call simplistic virtues of cooperation and co-dependence, that even over the course of three films the X-Men series could never get together <i>(excluding the prequel.).</i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>The Avenger's</i> moves past its cinematic genre's deadlock, between style and substance, melding down the two completely. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I know the comparison is getting repetitive, even for me, but compared to <i>The Dark Knight Rises' </i>depictions of blind mob rule and rigid face punching of its finale to the fluid living splash pages in many of Whedon's gliding single takes through multiple interconnected multi-varied battle sequences <i>(both of which include mass battles and impending nuclear holocaust</i>) . </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Like </span><i style="text-align: center;">Brad Bird</i><span style="text-align: center;"> last year with the surprisingly engaging </span><i style="text-align: center;">Mission Impossible</i><span style="text-align: center;">: </span><i style="text-align: center;">Ghost Protocol</i><span style="text-align: center;">, but even more endearing because the spectacle and hyperbole is too massive to ignore, like fireworks display, and laser show featuring live Evil Knieval in his prime; propulsive, hypnotic, and satisfying. </span><br />
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-51011346088395978122012-09-17T23:06:00.003-07:002012-09-17T23:26:05.945-07:00A Sentimental Haircut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i><b>Cosmpolis(2012)</b></i></div>
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<i><b> Directed By David Cronenberg</b></i></div>
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<i>Cosmopolis</i> is <i>David Cronenberg's</i> adaptation of <i>Don Delillo's</i> novel of the same name.<br />
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The film follows a day in the life of a 20 something billionaire asset manager named Eric <i>(played by Robert Pattinson</i>), taking his limo through grinding New York traffic on a cross town odyssey to get a sentimental haircut.<br />
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There is a <i>Samuel Beckett</i> like absurdity to an obscenely wealthy man insisting himself into self destruction.<br />
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He insists going cross town against the flow of traffic.<br />
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He insists the Yen cannot rise any higher, as reports flow in that it continues to do so.<br />
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He insists on ignoring his security advisers and the possible threat against his life.<br />
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Over the course of a few hours we watch a man insist himself into ruin.<br />
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Eric's day is filled with episodic meetings from his various business partners, assistants, lovers, and his equally rich and emotionally detached, equally independently, absurdly, wealthy wife.<br />
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The first half of the film is structured around philosophical discussions of cyber-captialism, wealth, class, ego, equality, predetermination, rebellion, and commodification, the second half follows Eric outside of his limo his desperate, disastrous and malicious attempts at connecting with the real world. </div>
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Many viewers have noted that the second half of the film is more dramatic, dynamic, exciting, and unpredictable than the first, but this tonal shift is Cronenberg's intention, and an asset to the film, not a defect. </div>
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To show the limits and repetitions of Eric's life, even with the boundless possibilities his wealth offers.<br />
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Director <i>David Cronenberg</i> creates a claustrophobia through the soundless world of Eric's interior highlighted each time he opens the door and a rush of street noise sweeps in.<br />
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<i> "A specter is haunting America, the specter of capitalism"</i> reads a building ticker, during a nameless, "easily forgotten", mass global protest in Times Square.<br />
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This reversal of the famous lines of<i> Karl Marx</i>, capture not only an anti-globalization maxim and sentiment of the film, but comment directly on Eric's spectral disconnection from the world around him.<br />
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His wealth, his stature, status, and connections; his very place in the circuitry of capitalism itself, have made him a ghost in his own life.<br />
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Being able to own anything has made desires empty of value.</div>
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The lack of desire is central to clinical depression and cultural ennui as well.<br />
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For Eric the only thing to desire is risk.<br />
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The knowledge that the Yen can be beaten, the laws of economics made to bend to the rational laws that govern everything.<br />
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Only as Eric slowly learns rational laws do not govern the world, and predetermined facts and predictable systems can still, nay must eventually, produce unpredictable results.<br />
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Enter <i>Paul Giammotti's</i> depressed, embittered, homicidal, towel wearing, hobo agent of chaos <i>(that is chaos theory)</i> itself, as Eric asymmetrical twin.<br />
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Giamotti's exchange with Eric at the end of the film is the most intelligent discussion since<i> "Police, Adjective's" </i>dictionary lesson.<br />
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Even among those who didn't like the film, I've heard and read nothing but respect for the skill of this scene and the acting involved <i>(Pattinson included, whose vampiric blankness finds a synonymous character).</i><br />
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<i>Cosmopolis</i> has Eric hitting on his assistant while his doctor gives him his daily prostrate exam. </div>
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This will doubtless not be a film to appeal to those interested in a light diversion.<br />
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<i>David Cronenberg</i> has if anything, made the novel harsher, colder, and sharper.<br />
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This novel was written before the 2008 financial collapse or the Occupy Wall Street protests, and though Cronenberg is doubtless aware of these events and their similarities to the plot <i>(Eric's genuine shock at the imperfections of his system are not far off from Alan Greenspan's similar surprise at the limits of his free market dream</i>) he doesn't exploit them, staying ruthlessly close to the novel's original text, and letting the eeriness of the connections sink in for themselves. </div>
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Even if every bit of jargon, philosophical musing, or witty banter falls on deaf ears, the film still succeeds as a story of a wealthy young man searching for something, anything, real.<br />
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Like the possibility of the fungus between Giamotti's toes ordering him to do things, some answers are ultimately irrelevant, and some absurdities more real than any truths.<br />
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<i><b>Branded(2012)</b></i></div>
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<b><i> Directed By Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksander Dulerayn</i></b></div>
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<i>"Branded"</i> follows in a long line of anti-corporate science fiction, but unfortunately it follows rather blindly.</div>
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Many have complained that <i>"Branded"</i> is a text-book example of false advertising <i>(ironically also the film's subjec</i>t) since its trailers made constant use of vibrant mutating and indeed fascinatingly designed living brand-names that appear to be laying siege to a city in a cross between <i>"They Live"</i> and <i>"Attack Of The Fifty-Foot Eyesores"</i> from one of<i> The</i> <i>Simpson's "Tree house Of Horror"</i> episodes.<br />
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These creatures do not appear until about an hour into the film, and calling them creatures is a bit of a stretch.<br />
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They are real in so far as our protagonist can see them, and they create for him at least real responses in an equal mix of fascination and repulsion.<br />
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But they are in fact advertisements and nothing more. In one telling scene our hero, confesses his horrified discovery of the conspiracy by fast food companies to make fat sexy by sending a reality tv weight loss finalist into a coma so they can then push a cynical "be yourself" campaign at all their restaurants, and of realizing that products now shape humans toward their desires, to which his girlfriend replies, <i>"Ok, but what are you going to do about it?".</i><br />
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A question that could have allowed the film to enter into some kind of dialogue with the real world, which it comes tragically close to.<br />
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Our hero decides or is lead by a rather clunky dues-ex-machina, to run negative attack ads for all the products he represents.<br />
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Vegetarian fast-food against beef, personal computers against cell-phones,Pepsi versus Coke, etc.<br />
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This causes consumer confidence to drop in all products, and makes the masses of Russia <i>(the third world country the villainous Max Von Sydow is using as an experimental testing ground) </i>rise up and demand an end to advertising.<br />
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The people go about achieving this through with acts of terror and angry mobs of looters and rapists. But it works and Russia leads the world in banning ads.<br />
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Russia who according to the film produced the first advertiser, apparently none other than <i>Vladmir Lennin </i>in 1910 when he invented communism, its colors, slogans, etc.<br />
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It's true that Soviet artisans and marketing advisers were invited by general electric and American companies, who wanted to learn from them, but the idea that Russian communists invented advertising is an interesting but totally inaccurate one.<br />
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The film opens with a flash of famous names on screen of individuals who saw things no one else saw and changed the world, it sadly misses the opportunity to add they are also now all brand-names of a sort.<br />
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All ideas have to be sold, and all are in competition with each other and with other ideas in our minds. </div>
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Instead of probing memetics, history, or philosophy the film contents itself to take swipes at fast-food and body image hysteria.</div>
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Like <i>"Generation P"(which Branded burrows from liberally),</i> "Branded" features a young intellectual who works at a kiosk after the fall of the Soviet Union, until by chance he becomes a wealthy marketing expert, who through a series of mystical visitations, becomes disaffected with modern capitalism and the alienation it creates. </div>
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Similarities end there, where "Generation P"(short for Pepsi) fully integrates its mysticism, political, social, and economic philosophies into a plot both comically and intellectually satisfying, "Branded" loses track of its multiple ill conceived plot threads. </div>
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The burning of the red heifer and the spy back story, hang so loose of the bones of the plot, they might as well not be there.</div>
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The performances do not tighten any of this up, as every actor seems to be running through rehearsals. </div>
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Especially the central couple whose relationship is as thin as the ads they despise; they even have a child who appears as easily, as characters disappear in flashes of lightning <i>(which also literally happens).</i></div>
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<i> "Generation P" </i>shows us a world of interconnections that no longer correspond to simple ideological answers, and that was its point.</div>
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<i> "Branded"</i> just insists advertising is evil no matter what product it sells.</div>
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Like the parasitical creatures growing out of our necks, our desires for products are unnatural and disgusting. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">So for having some Utopian balls I applaud <i>"Branded",</i> but all of the ideas and execution of the film in nearly every other way, could have used some additional thought in how best to market this utopia to the masses. </span></div>
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The film struck a nerve in its depiction of gelatinous ravenous monkey's on our back, but sadly never truly advances beyond the scene where our hero discovers the conspiracy and his girlfriend asks him as if exhausted at his naivete, "ok, but what are you going to do about it?". </div>
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Neither his character nor any other in the film can provide a more nuanced idea than Paul Anka's jingle/maxim from that classic Simpson's episode, and the direction that DVR's are now naturally pointing us toward in our age of information overload, "just don't look."</div>
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<i><b>Beasts Of The Southern Wild </b></i></div>
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<i><b> Directed by Benh Zeitlin</b></i></div>
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<em>Beasts Of The Southern Wild</em> is a southern gothic fantasy film about a 6 year old named Hushpuppy living in a fictional soon to be flooded southern coastall town of <em>Bathtub.</em><br />
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The town has been all but abandoned, save for a few who insist on weathering the storm. Hushpuppy's father takes ill which coincides with the ice caps thawing and releasing prehistoric auroch's, who resemble the giant tusked hogs from <em>Hayoa</em> <em>Miyazake's Princess Mononoke</em>, and appear to be closing in on <em>Bathtub.</em><br />
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<em>Hurricane Katrina</em> is inevitably mentioned in connection to this film, as I imagine will the ongoing<em> (at the time of writing this)</em> <em>Hurricane Issac,</em> but similarities can be misleading.<br />
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Katrina as a political issue concerned global warming but more importantly human mismanagement of levys, emergency units, city, state, and national governance, none of which despite a quick trip to a <em>FEMA</em> shelter concerns this film.<br />
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The <em>FEMA</em> shelter in the film is not a condemnation of anything other than architecture and appearances.<br />
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The antiseptic whiteness and sterile brightness are an obscene counterpoint to the happy rural filth(and it is filthy), the characters seem most comfortable in. Of course, the filth is theirs and can be cleaned up, while the antiseptic world they will never own and always owe. </div>
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Hushpuppy is all but a-sexual, until the shelter forces her into barrettes and a dress. The shelter is an intrusion of the real world, her being a girl, her fathers approaching death, of her poverty (up until then cloaked by those around her equally in the same boat), of the larger forces in the world that can take control of her. </div>
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The film makes no attempt of explaining the details of their capture or their escape. Nor is it necessary to explain why a local fisherman would take a group of girls to an island brothel. </div>
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We never even see the girls ask. In the brothel/bar several prostitutes slow dance with the young soaking wet girls in one of the films more surreal Herzogian scenes, which can be interpreted many ways. The girls as the innocence of the women or the women as the future of the girls. </div>
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It's an ambiguity left open, just as the question of Hushpuppy's mother is never really answered. <i>Beasts Of The Southern Wild</i> is a coming of age tale, though how much of the complexities of life can be understood at six is debatable.</div>
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Hushpuppy learns of a world outside her own, pains and joys, the film is simple in this. And its simplicity is one of its strengths. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The poetic voice over will remind some of <i>David Gordon Green</i> and <i>Terrance Malick</i>, as will I'm sure some of the hand held nature photography, but this has more in common with films like <i>Terry Gilliam's "Tideland"</i> or <i>Bernad Rose's "Paperhouse",</i> oneiric fantasy's where a character's perspective transforms the world around them to such an extent that the two are indivisible. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>Beasts Of The Southern Wild </i>shares many similarities with <i>Moonrise Kingdom</i>, since both are about renewed vision of the world through the eyes of children, both about shorelines, storms, love and community, but also some important distinctions that its important to look at when evaluating your reaction to the two. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>Moonrise Kingdom</i> takes place in a middle class community, has an entirely white cast <i>(a first in an Anderson film</i>), and a very formalist style of composition.</span><br />
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<i>Beasts Of The Southern Wild</i> is takes place in a poor community, has a mixed but predominantly black cast, a very naturalist style of composition. </div>
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<i>Moonrise Kingdom</i> is the stronger film because it relies on a less extreme range of emotions, a more stable territory of comedy and dramedy that it can more easily control.</div>
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<i>Beasts Of The Southern Wild</i> has slightly more dramatic ambitions, which it only missteps toward the end with some excessive voice over recapping the themes of the film, that would be have been better left to the viewer to reach through reflection if at all.</div>
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I'm not normally so swept up in texture, mood, and atmosphere mostly because I feel that films which rely on these too often rely on their absence, but<i> Beasts Of The Southern Wild </i>is a film filled, with color, light, and life, imperfect and snarling.</div>
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-2219188366682054072012-09-03T19:50:00.001-07:002012-09-17T23:32:55.757-07:00The Rise And The Fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i><b>The Dark Knight Rises(2012)</b></i></div>
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<i><b> <span style="text-align: center;">directed by Chris Nolan</span></b></i></div>
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Bane was good, <i>Hans Zimmer's</i> score was good, and the rest was overwrought.<br />
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Too much Wayne, Robin, Catwoman, and simply not enough Batman or Bane.<br />
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The Harvey Dent-Joker-Batman trinity was developed in <i>"The Dark Knight"</i>, these characters are random sketches, that Nolan is too realistic to instill with any theatrical flourish.<br />
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The police vs Bane army clash was nonsensical and tedious and very un-Batman.<br />
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Whatever happened to the roomful of stolen Batman tech used to dominate the city?<br />
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After two and half hours of hearing about how Bane and Batman are ninja trained, master strategists, tough enough to survive the worst conditions imaginable their final battle is resolved by punching each other in the face until someone drops.<br />
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Why is Bane's mask suddenly so easy to damage?<br />
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It didn't make any sense, and visually it looked ridiculous, as did much of Nolan's insistence that Batman appear in the day time.<br />
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For a Dark Knight, he was very active in the mid day sun.<br />
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I am familiar with the Batman gospel, so Talia Al Ghul is no shock, but considering how little she does, (<i>changing into a robe, shanking Batman, and dying</i>) its a major waste of a character, but that's nothing compared to how disappointing Catwoman is.<br />
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There is no comparison to <i>Michele Pfeiffe</i>r captivating unpredictable portrayal, and compared to how much time goes into the Bane/Thalia back-story were left to accept a jewel thief, acrobat, who can fight a roomful of thugs without tying her hair back.<br />
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She is sadly reduced from femme fatale incarnate to little more than Batman's girlfriend<i> (as Commissioner Gordon calls her)</i>.<br />
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<i>Chris Nolan</i> has never been comfortable making a superhero film.<br />
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He has tried very hard to focus in as as much as possible on the police procedural, mystery, thriller, <i>James Bond</i> style action and neo-noir elements of the Batman saga, and leave out the sci-fi, horror, occult, comedic, kitschy, and psychedelic elements.<br />
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Which in order for villains like Bane and Catwoman to work at their theatrical best you have to delve into a little bit.<br />
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The problem with <i>"The Dark Knight Rises"</i> is that its the reactionary opposite of <i>Joel Schumacher's "Batman And Robin"</i>, which tried to freeze the character in his 1960's television show incarnation.<br />
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Nolan's Bat-mans suit obsessional functionality is because of Schumachers infamous nipple additions.<br />
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Bane appears in both films coincidentally, both times serving a beautiful woman <i>(that easy beauty and beast metaphor just to convenient to skip).</i><br />
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Like <i>"Inception"</i> the film relies too heavily on exposition constantly talking about what the action and excitement will be like, how beyond belief, terrible, monumental, and epic, but it only turns out to be face-punching and shooting machine guns out of speeding cars; typical action fodder.<br />
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Nolan has drained the vitality of the Batman series and the character, no wonder Bale appears as a ghost of himself in his first scenes; a man we are constantly told is too old to be running around on rooftops and fighting in back alleys, who should settle down with a nice girl <i>(the first one he meets with a grappling hook and jump suit)</i> and start looking after his money.<br />
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Nolan wanted an epic close to his series, but in an era of constant reboots, prequels and spin-offs, and sequels, and from a character 80 years old, a definitive end feels, because it is, disingenuous.<br />
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More so when "I am Robin" is almost tattooed on <i>Joseph Gordon Levitt's</i> forehead for most of the film.<br />
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I saw this movie in theaters twice, and both times I could hear argument from the audience as to when and if the inevitable Robin film would be coming out.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Rightly so, because the epic ending is actually a way of avoiding having to come up with an interesting end to the series. </span><br />
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The attack on Wall Street, misses any opportunity to be more than a desperate grab at topicality, so its ultimate attempt at gravity <i>(the implied social and economic thin ice we are all walking on in the real world and that we see at the very beginning of the film)</i> is meaningless. </div>
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A good series, and a film with some interesting character acting and a good score, but run-of-the mill as an action film, dull as superhero film, and flat as a drama, as lacking imagination and over-complicated as "<i>Inception"</i>.</div>
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Like "<i>Star Wars"</i> and "<i>The Matrix" </i>before it, a series with a strong start, gets phoned in at the end, and rises to a dismal finish. </div>
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-56180880550786839012012-09-03T17:07:00.000-07:002012-12-19T01:10:23.407-08:00Songs Of Innocence And Experience<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>Moonrise Kingdom(2012) </b></i></div>
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<b><i>Directed By Wes Anderson</i></b></div>
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<i>Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom"</i> is a return to the subjects the filmmaker knows best, childhood's excitement and adult compromise and disillusionment. </div>
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This story follows a young boy and girl in the 1960's who run away together to live in the woods and follow and Indian trail, while the girls parents and the local sheriff (<i>who are also in a romantic tangle of their own</i>) try to track down the kids.<br />
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<i>Edward Norton</i> also plays the boy's scout master who unleashes his politely feral troop to track down their wayward peer, with continuously disastrous results.<br />
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And all the while, a narrator <i>(one of Anderson's best characters) </i>periodically informs us a storm is approaching the small Iisland where this is all taking place.<br />
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The simplest way to describe <i>Wes Anderson's</i> sensibilities I think is to say in his films adults act children and children act like adults.<br />
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The same could be said obviously of any comedy featuring childish behavior, but in Anderson's films the idea is more ingrained into the fabric of his cinema.<br />
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<i>"The Royal Tennenbaums" </i>features characters wearing the same clothes as adults they wore as children frozen in an era of their lives they were happiest and moving back into their childhood homes to explore old psychological wounds, <i>"The Life Aquatic"</i> features a young man meeting his hero and long-lost father and living out his childhood fantasy (<i>Cate Blanchett's</i> <i>character is an inverted version of same), Jason Shwartzman's </i>desire to remain at Rushmore forever and Bill Murray accepting his challenge as a rival,<i> Mr. Fox's</i> need to relive his glory days with just one more big heist, even at the expense of his family and friends, the brothers in <i>"The Darjeeling Limited"</i> fighting over their fathers clothes while seeking out their wayward mother, and Owen Wilson trying to get his life together without betraying his bumbling childhood friend in <i>"Bottle Rocket" </i>captured at best in microcosm<i> </i>in the opening scene of that film.<br />
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A scene that would pretty much define the rest of Anderson's work.<br />
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At the beginning of "<i>Bottle Rocket", Luke Wilson</i> is saying preparing a bed sheet rope to escape through a window when a doctor comes in, and noticing, Wilson explains he has a friend who didn't know he was getting released today and was really excited about breaking him out. He asks if the doctor wouldn't mind just playing along.<br />
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It would mean allot to his friend.<br />
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Likewise in <i>"Moonrise Kingdom" </i>a young boy might for a moment existentially reflect on the irrelevance of morality in the life and death of a dog. To perfect comic effect.<br />
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All of which is of secondary importance to the fact that this is Anderson's most exciting and adventurous film since <i>"The Life Aquatic"</i> and his most genuinely romantic since <i>Claire Danes</i> slow-motion walked to <i>"These Days"</i> in<i> "The Royal Tennenbaum's". </i><br />
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<i>"Moonrise Kingdom"</i> finds an accessible balance between ambition and execution, that had missing in his last two films, and sorely missing in most cinema in general.<br />
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In its opening virtuoso scene that juxtaposes, in cinematic terms anyone would understand, scenes of domestic life with instructional music about various instruments in a symphony, Anderson shows us that characters in his worlds are always parts of a bigger whole.<br />
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No matter how minor, each character, color, and sound must be taken together completely to fully appreciate. </div>
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Some might argue that all of these films are simply retreading the same path, and I would agree but also add, that is the point.<br />
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Like the runaways themselves retracing an old Indian path, its new because, its new to them.<br />
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The beach they discover has only a numerical assignment, an objectively identical point on a map, until they decide to rename it <i>"Moonrise Kingdom". </i><br />
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-56949077306225623722012-09-03T15:54:00.000-07:002012-09-03T20:25:47.183-07:00The Exploding Skull Cage<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">
<em><strong>Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengence(2012)</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Directed By Mark Neveldine And Brian Taylor</strong></em></div>
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Director duo <em>N</em><em>eveldine/Talyor</em> continued their <em>Four Loko</em> fueled headlong action sprints into derangement in the lastest <em>Ghost Rider</em> film. </div>
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<em>Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengence</em> finally gives <em>Nicholas Cage</em> room to act as his trademark man unhinged before the CGI flaming skull takes over. </div>
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The <em>Ghost Rider</em> in this sequel is more demonic, inventive, and all together more interesting to watch than the stiff original.</div>
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The story involves Cage as <em>Johnny Blaze</em> a burned out ex motorcycle driver and host to the spirit of vengence that feeds on evil (from war crimes to "illegal downloads"), living in the shadows and ruins of Eastern Europe, lured out of his self imposed exile by a drunken priests claims of redemption provided he prevent a young boy from becoming the anti-christ-the usual super-hero stuff. </div>
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The real spectacle lies with Cage's performance in one gloriously sweaty interrogation scene where special effects showing Cage's face teetering on morphing into a hollow skull can barely keep up with the actors natural manic facial controtions. </div>
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If your not laughing during this scene, than you will know this is not the movie for you. </div>
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<em>Neveldine/Taylor</em> have never feared veering into bieng crude or obnoxious from <em>Crank's</em> repeated public sex scenes, to <em>Gamer's</em> masturabory virtual reality, and finally in <em>Ghost Rider</em> pissing flame.</div>
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The flaming piss, for what its worth, is not something that actually happens in the film per say, but is a flash of imagination from the young Satan spawn, when questioning Cage about what its like when the demon of vengence takes over. </div>
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Later it flashes back on screen when <em>Satan</em> describes his mortal body as just bursting with power, and the soon to be anti-christ equates the ultimate power with an old man needing to piss.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Whether or not the director's channelling their inner</span><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"> </span><em style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Takeshi Miike</em><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">or Cage's scenry chewing will be enough to earn this the new cult classic space it deserves is uncertain.</span></div>
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This version is <em>Ghost Rider</em> as a road movie, which plays to the characters limited stregnths, but for what little there is to work with here everyone involved does their best. </div>
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<em>Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengence</em> is a sequel that far exceeds the original film but as a movie its just okay. </div>
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I can't think of much more a Ghost Rider film could possibly be or hope to accomplish, but if <em>Neveldine/Taylor</em> stuck with the franchise , I'd imagine it would at least would be worth watching.<strong><em>-Joe</em></strong></div>
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<em>John Carter</em> is a <em>Disney</em> film and debut live action film from <em>Pixar</em> director <em>Andrew Stanton,</em> based on a space opera magazine serial <em>A Princess Of Mars</em> by <em>Edgar Rice Burroughs (</em>the film's narrator<em>)</em> created 100 years ago this year.</div>
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The story follows a confederate soldier turned prospector who finds an ancient magic portal while fleeing from a battle between <em>U.S.</em> army soldiers and <em>Apache</em>, and is transported to Mars and immediately inducted into the wars and escapades of four armed noble savage Green Martians and tanned henna tattooed but otherwise human and technologically advanced Red Martians.</div>
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On <em>Mars</em> or as it's known to natives <em>Barsoom</em>, Carter’s body is super-humanly strong and capable of enormous leaps due to the difference in gravity, and as soon as he can walk he’s enslaved by the Green skins as a pet who can jump. </div>
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But before this story of a Confederate soldier enslaved by tribesmen, gets too interesting, princesses are literally falling out of the sky, with promises of free planetary energy if only they can be saved from marrying the warlord in the next kingdom over.</div>
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<em>Cowboys And Aliens</em> failed at doing just what <em>John Carter</em> sets out too, because it took itself too seriously.</div>
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The only time director <em>Andrew Stanton</em> approaches the grandious is when Carter takes on an army of Green Skins while flashing back to the discovery of his wife and child’s bodies in their ruined house. </div>
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The <em>John Williams</em>-ish swashbuckling music is replaced with dramatic intense strings in this scene which flashes between green limbs being hacked to pieces and Carter planting a cross in the ground in slow motion. </div>
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The film compresses its sanctimony into one scene, which despite itself proves emotionally effective a kernal sized island of meaning, in a sea of thrilling but otherwise typical <em>George Lucas-ish</em> special effects driven action set pieces that comprise the rest of the film. </div>
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<em>John Carter’s</em> wish fulfillment and dream logic recalls classic fantasy like <em>Alice Wonderland, Chronicles Of Narnia,</em> and<em> The Wizard Of Oz,</em> especially in its framing narratives of an average person sent to a fantastic place resembling an inverted version of the world they left behind.</div>
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The film is strongest when it plays to its leaping animated rhythms, and grand alien vistas, which it has in no short supply.</div>
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If your not a fan of heroic adventure stories then this will not appeal to you, but if you enjoyed <em>Avatar, Dune, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars</em> there’s no intellectual or aesthetic reason not to enjoy <em>John Carter.</em></div>
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If you don't care for those films, then don't watch <em>John Carter</em>, you'll find nothing new, but if your looking for an immersive epic no-brainer than 8 bucks to Antebellum Mars is worth the trip.<strong><em>-</em><em> Joe</em></strong></div>
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Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-37745420708641524942012-01-05T16:58:00.000-08:002012-12-19T01:06:58.366-08:00Best Films Of 2011<div style="text-align: center;">
T<a class="inline_edit" href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/289211474441035/#" style="background-color: white; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; line-height: 10px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; width: auto; word-break: break-word;">his year in film in images; short reviews forth coming, but if pictures are worth a thousand words than here's roughly 30,000 words on why movies are still worth seeking out.</a></div>
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<b><i>From The Top</i></b>: The Tree Of Life, Drive, Melancholia, The Future, Shame, The Skin I Live In, The Mill And The Cross, Another Earth, Beyond The Black Rainbow, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Target(Mishen), Hugo, Attack The Block, Play, X-Men: First Class, The End(Al Nihaya), The Day He Arrives, Faust, Coriolanus, The Gaurd, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Contagion, A Dangerous Method, The Turin Horse, Scream 4, Sucker Punch, Hanna, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Adventures Of Tintin, Too Big Too Fail, The Innkeepers, Bridesmaids, The Immortals. </div>
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<b><i>Full 2011 list:</i></b> <a href="http://mubi.com/lists/2011--184">http://mubi.com/lists/2011--184</a></div>
Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-10878466806167102502011-10-20T11:27:00.000-07:002011-10-20T20:22:26.829-07:00The Weight Of The World<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Melancholia(2011)</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ASXSygIB94eppMT9RzVvNN6cVgSWcClqwc3O_uLpIwQq_v0XBorJam879Q2wQxNnvOLhzWKnE_XU48PffBC0hZHo1wYiS0XYuq-wNxUpYihHqPV8CRoqLvx6CRnS7TDyRWoEqkAlIM_K/s1600/cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ASXSygIB94eppMT9RzVvNN6cVgSWcClqwc3O_uLpIwQq_v0XBorJam879Q2wQxNnvOLhzWKnE_XU48PffBC0hZHo1wYiS0XYuq-wNxUpYihHqPV8CRoqLvx6CRnS7TDyRWoEqkAlIM_K/s400/cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665661257134493330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Directed By Lars Von Trier</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI86eZFG4wXPj3zFQvNaKUunWoCdp7Yhm9UMHiKee9eUpalzaRSI6TWynXLfn7afwSdV1eqUMAbzoT3cPP_WnBmTfjnTtLYNwRgGxBj5sEMsqnBucq7xytteFbTZfVsAqeBuvNcTIb5PZG/s1600/35.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI86eZFG4wXPj3zFQvNaKUunWoCdp7Yhm9UMHiKee9eUpalzaRSI6TWynXLfn7afwSdV1eqUMAbzoT3cPP_WnBmTfjnTtLYNwRgGxBj5sEMsqnBucq7xytteFbTZfVsAqeBuvNcTIb5PZG/s400/35.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665648930087603074" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3qAbYe-v-gKc3PSuk5IVI3P-5s1QxqfmYc9xbfF7xS1czEehqY3u0XVbwc0rWii32YLQWuEDa5VSFjdbidCzceHzkKmw1vtolHLcBPGa9m1beZSwgCjGOjgyMfqR8bqxt2dC3k7tXYXb9/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZmNNVFxFlELHk7sHqeI699w7I0O95u1vUfmt_Kx1FXGNS_bVwNivdz759hgJFj6vdG5TLJZM5WHkWV2Iq9iwoFwuHKdUcj6FrhlN_Tn8YKy-sLN-AIy8AO4YQkl-SXeC9XmGiH0VJfJ9/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643200700027810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Melancholia</span> is the latest film from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lars Von Trier</span>, tagged as an <span style="font-style: italic;">“emotional disaster movie”</span> about two sisters <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Kirsten Dunst</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Charlotte Gainsboug</span>, facing internal and external catastrophes.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2eB6p4roX6KdlICpxu20swf9sgy76OM7qXz-cdWqoYJBD2Bkcp-LvhkgjdwYfR-S1ZFDzqhAlA2YG1oagnAGvutBPutkgmJpDG1UhmOL3xPOEFQs8Vsnzp95woGqMxVbjdeouzYI_iDN/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2eB6p4roX6KdlICpxu20swf9sgy76OM7qXz-cdWqoYJBD2Bkcp-LvhkgjdwYfR-S1ZFDzqhAlA2YG1oagnAGvutBPutkgmJpDG1UhmOL3xPOEFQs8Vsnzp95woGqMxVbjdeouzYI_iDN/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665642965074199826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizu3y-3GZNV0eQJfNv9zCfstxF-4xIVr2GbmoHf9lEPGJ6sbgOVQa3t1REwSYW47Ttf85frOvtaaqqXta_DQxRoNvGVJCxn29W_5AKbV9H9Pc22dcsMd4k7LnyCzGqWKY645GQIsvrnT7Z/s1600/48.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizu3y-3GZNV0eQJfNv9zCfstxF-4xIVr2GbmoHf9lEPGJ6sbgOVQa3t1REwSYW47Ttf85frOvtaaqqXta_DQxRoNvGVJCxn29W_5AKbV9H9Pc22dcsMd4k7LnyCzGqWKY645GQIsvrnT7Z/s400/48.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665660877200952466" border="0" /></a>In the first half of the film we watch Dunst sabotage her own idealic wedding as a sudden gloom descends on her like light piercing between clouds, in patches at first until she’s immersed, and the weddings called off. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5AQ9pryAXgiTlTz4QsN7XjhZYAv0pUhtfl9CeOy1rxZxRGgVOLDf9kPO5aJoIgGiZj9OCCzbIB21ez09jhManuBE19S2qFfQ7IndW1SlV0J_JFnZffTiBpG6mkzAa4ypXsw64zPgo5F-/s1600/46.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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font-style: italic;">“If you think I’m afraid of the planet, your too stupid.”</span>, says Dunst in the second half, to a crumbling Gainsbourg. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzz_01q6JZ9csjnMP4lcJWak3QMSmha713XVzK2vvEgLT7J8I2vKhOGQ9yMdrTxgRqj9lZWpGFjE-ZdxIqxtoIa0axA5GZ0_CIXo4P3erF390soPY0aE336pbwPaVoRwz47-1ZNzTJsXVN/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzz_01q6JZ9csjnMP4lcJWak3QMSmha713XVzK2vvEgLT7J8I2vKhOGQ9yMdrTxgRqj9lZWpGFjE-ZdxIqxtoIa0axA5GZ0_CIXo4P3erF390soPY0aE336pbwPaVoRwz47-1ZNzTJsXVN/s400/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643479650650754" border="0" /></a>The first half of the film is like<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “Rachel Getting Married”</span> a lavish wedding party with emotional dead lights slipping through cracks in the opulence. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoi4koVXEeOoupqel7a3yomSc_hXnk95iFdZhn6DvUivNRcf2oqjrPaJWCksBl0VojFinvZBYOAi2nAn0VkLyMD2l4pTSFjXaDwHD9vgmcGJCgP1BVZnEXJBIpp_6H92OfUR0cN1MvCyGq/s1600/36.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoi4koVXEeOoupqel7a3yomSc_hXnk95iFdZhn6DvUivNRcf2oqjrPaJWCksBl0VojFinvZBYOAi2nAn0VkLyMD2l4pTSFjXaDwHD9vgmcGJCgP1BVZnEXJBIpp_6H92OfUR0cN1MvCyGq/s400/36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649139090697826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“We have a deal!...The deal is that you be happy.”,</span> says <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Kiefer Sutherland</span>, as Gainsbourg’s wealthy husband, bitterly footing the bill for in-laws he distrusts and resents. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4f4BIbAA79iilAh2M0RpWDSNolf8gXl2oThvwJQTLWZwoI91g1BYPKcMhGuH31-bfgVmNaIiRT04MHnG7prRONbwylugEloNPq_4_lv4GyluVstpTSmfgqMsPpd9ZuDC1R61UE3t41PZ/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4f4BIbAA79iilAh2M0RpWDSNolf8gXl2oThvwJQTLWZwoI91g1BYPKcMhGuH31-bfgVmNaIiRT04MHnG7prRONbwylugEloNPq_4_lv4GyluVstpTSmfgqMsPpd9ZuDC1R61UE3t41PZ/s400/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643475284504082" border="0" /></a>Dunst’s parents are divorced and vocal about it, her mother’s cruel comments to the wedding party contrast against her otherwise hippie free spirit attire. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLFZWZwaNd-rvNVSt3QwtqmNbzCLx8R0-1nMmgIseYmeHe-5CfsudVirrZ9lroNxcOoznSd_UNsLbxWCE5AXz_p7bejifAjwF_BunuJzUmdwCT_OOuLBANrZMv9kDeF0vBY7jPiS6aRXz/s1600/29.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLFZWZwaNd-rvNVSt3QwtqmNbzCLx8R0-1nMmgIseYmeHe-5CfsudVirrZ9lroNxcOoznSd_UNsLbxWCE5AXz_p7bejifAjwF_BunuJzUmdwCT_OOuLBANrZMv9kDeF0vBY7jPiS6aRXz/s400/29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665648922797527842" border="0" /></a>She is against this marriage, and marriage in general, her affable doormat husband is content to smile quietly as she berates him. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkfRrMiBIDQJwW-lCwE-g4GHdCXLixjKxYsyL5lHJlXCzj4x5hHgMTxdk47_MazQHbcH5lDQU0wJSEcZhAKPMWQ-f4q0m-gbSgkcqXm0fAmPKb_rZfLgXSJkyzTwQeu3UHskVUWqSmaOi/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkfRrMiBIDQJwW-lCwE-g4GHdCXLixjKxYsyL5lHJlXCzj4x5hHgMTxdk47_MazQHbcH5lDQU0wJSEcZhAKPMWQ-f4q0m-gbSgkcqXm0fAmPKb_rZfLgXSJkyzTwQeu3UHskVUWqSmaOi/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643491078263122" border="0" /></a>We get the impression this fight has been going on for years, boiling over anytime the two come into contact with each other. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMCSJZAbDU6UKLMyKqcsBmpJoENMY-CEWQznenssbavvinv9oMj_C8EcoMQvCIrw5_WUiy7OlJCQIkuafiJuhq6Q_JuUmieBoMyM9ho5pzm8KpKo8tLylQ7CjZl9ccUR4vXOXhlYCu8-c/s1600/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMCSJZAbDU6UKLMyKqcsBmpJoENMY-CEWQznenssbavvinv9oMj_C8EcoMQvCIrw5_WUiy7OlJCQIkuafiJuhq6Q_JuUmieBoMyM9ho5pzm8KpKo8tLylQ7CjZl9ccUR4vXOXhlYCu8-c/s400/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643802619148258" border="0" /></a>Likewise we come to understand that Dunst’s angst is nothing new, her mother’s speech only serves as a catalyst.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaW0rhsnfm_J-eUbT_cA6Ml0MD3Z1PfD-eTykeEaxWBQS6JQJTzzuoosEbLlt3ErlcXL8sy4D_pj2x3eO4oFbqYlI7SpLB5ZRhcfsSPBgZcq8T7p-I8igUNGTdG-9vee9ke0IBR0OkChyphenhyphenO/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaW0rhsnfm_J-eUbT_cA6Ml0MD3Z1PfD-eTykeEaxWBQS6JQJTzzuoosEbLlt3ErlcXL8sy4D_pj2x3eO4oFbqYlI7SpLB5ZRhcfsSPBgZcq8T7p-I8igUNGTdG-9vee9ke0IBR0OkChyphenhyphenO/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665642969058557554" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Let’s not have any episodes today?”</span> warns Gainsbourg to Dunst early on. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiico5Kr3qoUely9q4rHnW8Ju_7wx-CWawC0wGOclSzVjvybi2qEu21MRddW6f1xCUXHbDC7Batvfgolelk1eT_6pKosnlwecWS6eJVq6edeJElrnMQTtk6xBbrxK3aUVp28o2_JIWWlDF6/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiico5Kr3qoUely9q4rHnW8Ju_7wx-CWawC0wGOclSzVjvybi2qEu21MRddW6f1xCUXHbDC7Batvfgolelk1eT_6pKosnlwecWS6eJVq6edeJElrnMQTtk6xBbrxK3aUVp28o2_JIWWlDF6/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643199477124498" border="0" /></a>Everyone at the wedding seems to be walking on eggshells, except for her mother who is claimed by her own misery early on, and refuses to leave her room or speak to her daughter. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAgrieX6mSsuJ8-sO4qE0AHCSXjDNRB0IQB5e-RpCKrl_0d2xA9YjQlZItb8LxKtQeVu98Tpkzxc-OWcDt86qYDehw1kAyyjuOCVpQLwJehjaXw_R-O9KvuLVy9n0qTx8wOrmNdiVQTIv2/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAgrieX6mSsuJ8-sO4qE0AHCSXjDNRB0IQB5e-RpCKrl_0d2xA9YjQlZItb8LxKtQeVu98Tpkzxc-OWcDt86qYDehw1kAyyjuOCVpQLwJehjaXw_R-O9KvuLVy9n0qTx8wOrmNdiVQTIv2/s400/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643793887011298" border="0" /></a>Like the planet <span style="font-style: italic;">Melancholia</span> lurking all along behind a hidden star her soul sapping depression is waiting behind the forced smile Kiefer believes he has paid for with generosity. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_Dg2LkTw_I0dGHi37AmjiDI8plmvVOiKInmY1iJOJn4x5NV5Ct9ZkngrT9lEi41dx6t-lPoYNi6DYblrLVbgwYIaYahRkUslXZ7YIUWacW5a3dMRi61_Vu8LgsjLaEDsmh7N3LSSMZKZ/s1600/30.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_Dg2LkTw_I0dGHi37AmjiDI8plmvVOiKInmY1iJOJn4x5NV5Ct9ZkngrT9lEi41dx6t-lPoYNi6DYblrLVbgwYIaYahRkUslXZ7YIUWacW5a3dMRi61_Vu8LgsjLaEDsmh7N3LSSMZKZ/s400/30.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665648924454687762" border="0" /></a>This relationship plays out another way between Dunst and her boss. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivf2RVdMulfyYMnRrRoysP3qgfyhYHRmBHFfqrFsjQ64RW6iQc4lHSOqmzVPMVYdk2_EQDM_PqGP12abzCiRg46yPUsKF5afW0pTwqfIERVTOtE78LHPheaNCgFivb66_hDEG5T-ApvgbW/s1600/333.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivf2RVdMulfyYMnRrRoysP3qgfyhYHRmBHFfqrFsjQ64RW6iQc4lHSOqmzVPMVYdk2_EQDM_PqGP12abzCiRg46yPUsKF5afW0pTwqfIERVTOtE78LHPheaNCgFivb66_hDEG5T-ApvgbW/s400/333.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665645384698433410" border="0" /></a>Some have suggested Melancholia is a kind of companion piece to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Antichrist”, </span>but that film had at least a promise of comeuppance for <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Willem Defoe’s</span> smug psycho-therapy, while in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Melancholia</span>" there is no justice, only calamity and “evil”. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha33b3aF_tDZ-xy8j7g92FWB3TX_0e9XM-WbyAhVlPCIIuGkL1hPistoas4f872hIxO_QWIq-q_lJqja2is3IWQVFCtklPfXknKqu4Lr-EhzD-ycKdgr7TrlHuOUypOIKkLwgsrom2TsNK/s1600/4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha33b3aF_tDZ-xy8j7g92FWB3TX_0e9XM-WbyAhVlPCIIuGkL1hPistoas4f872hIxO_QWIq-q_lJqja2is3IWQVFCtklPfXknKqu4Lr-EhzD-ycKdgr7TrlHuOUypOIKkLwgsrom2TsNK/s400/4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665642980761767954" border="0" /></a>Dunst claims as much as the final act approaches, <span style="font-style: italic;">“the world is evil…and we're all be better off”.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Rk_CTMficS3wVOKrdk9ZQvzp_HnOhLRvc77eQZlmkAihRPKN2b2tBoeQ-Vcylyp3cFXyl43nDxV2elEBBDuTyINtON_BwJGnWMKOpx75u4wHUhVRlvqrC_eeQYzUM0yk1TEVGFmugaSX/s1600/333.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Rk_CTMficS3wVOKrdk9ZQvzp_HnOhLRvc77eQZlmkAihRPKN2b2tBoeQ-Vcylyp3cFXyl43nDxV2elEBBDuTyINtON_BwJGnWMKOpx75u4wHUhVRlvqrC_eeQYzUM0yk1TEVGFmugaSX/s400/333.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649575735823042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHe9qfvivGPNNdLdAyprny7HirNUZjvEjHN349eYGO_yrOFknrDubf6O8SSIcSsMGL4Va0VQYUH7w6V3uckTeOxtmEkTm5GcSMXjU58mxPBXrrBKBYW_V2lzpzadofdU4Uus7fiaZ-bPUp/s1600/40.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHe9qfvivGPNNdLdAyprny7HirNUZjvEjHN349eYGO_yrOFknrDubf6O8SSIcSsMGL4Va0VQYUH7w6V3uckTeOxtmEkTm5GcSMXjU58mxPBXrrBKBYW_V2lzpzadofdU4Uus7fiaZ-bPUp/s400/40.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649144899978178" border="0" /></a>Like <span style="font-weight: bold;">I</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">ngmar Bergman’s “Persona”</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Melancholia"</span> opens with a dreamlike tableau of images obliquely representing events and images we will later observe, and also involves two women whose personalities slowly merge and their roles of authority and patient reverse. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJENzZ-YMDuaQbuIjJE3vPdJKyvtk5Ea2XWgjTCV13Q2UMG4q8n4kD8LMknvSgdeclJDJQNb2nCu_uxkuTEvZfzgNb5-Wz6iBlHOur-I55ey89TrCRGRQ6rg7oJXrtUugYCgQoGEs0ENTy/s1600/44.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJENzZ-YMDuaQbuIjJE3vPdJKyvtk5Ea2XWgjTCV13Q2UMG4q8n4kD8LMknvSgdeclJDJQNb2nCu_uxkuTEvZfzgNb5-Wz6iBlHOur-I55ey89TrCRGRQ6rg7oJXrtUugYCgQoGEs0ENTy/s400/44.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649348707522242" border="0" /></a>In <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Anti-Christ”</span> Gainsbourg lashes out at Defoe and herself, but in<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "Melancholia"</span> with all encompassing destruction and extinction on it’s way even bitterness wears itself out. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-Wuxs7nQoHXJP9iTjRE1Q3x-zr5ogld60T8Tfe-jRewE_MLHMKMvZvJQMGvc5OP2CORYUCb1H6x9sdYtgYhJfHnC3rBbpNjf83b_Nh1dI2NGTHHT0rHds3lpdqjDriW7Q6-87L7R6weV/s1600/31.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-Wuxs7nQoHXJP9iTjRE1Q3x-zr5ogld60T8Tfe-jRewE_MLHMKMvZvJQMGvc5OP2CORYUCb1H6x9sdYtgYhJfHnC3rBbpNjf83b_Nh1dI2NGTHHT0rHds3lpdqjDriW7Q6-87L7R6weV/s400/31.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665648924462447858" border="0" /></a>Dunst comes alive, so to speak, only as the end is closest and only when her sister and nephew are coming apart. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JWrxNVFHLxr2ieT4GRioprnSCoK3tzP0GwZykQq9P2bBwaynHq1oLbC21QcjMpep8b9dUJTwm4I3STKVgaMLn_EwgDD2RkiZxu4kAW5RKnmMsEQk-dTncZ3jRJbcw3dHRmkGkXcRcG73/s1600/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JWrxNVFHLxr2ieT4GRioprnSCoK3tzP0GwZykQq9P2bBwaynHq1oLbC21QcjMpep8b9dUJTwm4I3STKVgaMLn_EwgDD2RkiZxu4kAW5RKnmMsEQk-dTncZ3jRJbcw3dHRmkGkXcRcG73/s400/26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665645189086765778" border="0" /></a>Her, dare I say in a Lars Von Trier film review, <span style="font-style: italic;">compassion</span> for her nephew and sister, comes from their entrance into the world of desperation and despair that Dunst has been occupying for most of the film. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoyxHvJJg5CfPxbbynKUOm6ltniUESv0b2k5ALrQ8aNcLeSavZ4qufqTdcBqJ6lz_o4PyJ0XHMlDvs6m6oOSKhJfEj2WDIGzPIMJblivePVpgl5KVsOICzAFOGCPwr1jYMcsNzaS8d-_n/s1600/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoyxHvJJg5CfPxbbynKUOm6ltniUESv0b2k5ALrQ8aNcLeSavZ4qufqTdcBqJ6lz_o4PyJ0XHMlDvs6m6oOSKhJfEj2WDIGzPIMJblivePVpgl5KVsOICzAFOGCPwr1jYMcsNzaS8d-_n/s400/23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665645185960793682" border="0" /></a>She could easily abandon them, but she decides (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">:SPOILERALERT:</span>) to build a shelter that she has told the boy is magic. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9nm0tm5IZtgIFCmcIWVg5t2GC2yyx-YBkfCbhVoJ7g1L23JjNG8nfp9rfSWTGbs8PgW69B59biZX72OP5z5kZbYIJlNPxpypM0tcCukPE6ZhSCEK-GubuHoP-SHfcJgJZhcaQR6eFVhm/s1600/43.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9nm0tm5IZtgIFCmcIWVg5t2GC2yyx-YBkfCbhVoJ7g1L23JjNG8nfp9rfSWTGbs8PgW69B59biZX72OP5z5kZbYIJlNPxpypM0tcCukPE6ZhSCEK-GubuHoP-SHfcJgJZhcaQR6eFVhm/s400/43.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649347098429106" border="0" /></a>To me the construction of the shelter and the final moments are cinematically sublime, with all doom that’s come before, and the very literal death from above crashing down on them, and with Dunst's explicit refusal to sit on the porch with a bottle of wine as Gainsbourg suggest, for Dunst to play along with her nephew in one final illusion is what makes the film truly tragic, and not just fucked up and weird.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBHdvVSH4YwV3y9P9kKJzcRbn1FPpWIsKnIU_UraPRQTckW8B6dDk2a0ceLFCWAxMGc405MlsBHIdPd59ihHUCVHOKtpI0hrxmQT6zMLJe4cMq6j8llXa7A-jNtYVLuvbJ84mFbcLNA4z/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBHdvVSH4YwV3y9P9kKJzcRbn1FPpWIsKnIU_UraPRQTckW8B6dDk2a0ceLFCWAxMGc405MlsBHIdPd59ihHUCVHOKtpI0hrxmQT6zMLJe4cMq6j8llXa7A-jNtYVLuvbJ84mFbcLNA4z/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643806307764418" border="0" /></a> The image we are left with is a frail shelter of twigs, with human beings holding hands in the center while the world bears down on them, unprotected by the magical belief and faith in the symbol they’ve erected around themselves.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJVEelDae2sJj2zNJhw8-gUSylL47n_vsuWj9DYkgaX0thVx66FBDIPN14Cn4eERyJDXj-7lAJhcvhuA6Zc7_dXbh91KD7MMCwz6Mt80TlQDUVdodMdNv7JZcjOStHRsSBxKmS1166x3o/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJVEelDae2sJj2zNJhw8-gUSylL47n_vsuWj9DYkgaX0thVx66FBDIPN14Cn4eERyJDXj-7lAJhcvhuA6Zc7_dXbh91KD7MMCwz6Mt80TlQDUVdodMdNv7JZcjOStHRsSBxKmS1166x3o/s400/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643796574966706" border="0" /></a> But still Dunst goes through with creating the symbol, even in a world where it’s empirically meaningless.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SAhns-Hf4bsix2fCePi2-FPRnzcHp_BdePasgbPIXNFPAPNQ9VM2zRrLE9ti2jIFdYfcCNlvPjZj0Oi35RXS3EpBbi4HCR-ocWgkja-mbtxPYLi3cUpVr-dM3sRNgxZxGq9tBG1_SFpR/s1600/41.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SAhns-Hf4bsix2fCePi2-FPRnzcHp_BdePasgbPIXNFPAPNQ9VM2zRrLE9ti2jIFdYfcCNlvPjZj0Oi35RXS3EpBbi4HCR-ocWgkja-mbtxPYLi3cUpVr-dM3sRNgxZxGq9tBG1_SFpR/s400/41.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649155184011874" border="0" /></a> I don’t mean to say the film supports the old <span style="font-style: italic;">“no atheists in foxholes” </span>adage, or that the magic cave is just a satirical example of denial of death, Dunst choice to build the cave, is as much for her family whom she like life, loves (<span style="font-style: italic;">her nephew</span>) and hates (<span style="font-style: italic;">her sister)</span> regardless of it’s value as good or evil, because its all that’s still exists. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYjkg9nwuqVLPgSY20FgY4cyji5ofRmrLVSDzt_tZZvrD2qvDEarNigsOzsdHGHEL5aLiVAkrAGHIQ0yYZEcWrraeA0Ox9f_-NTp71ZQwhSq-NL3k-R0Ygc_UlIvFxxfOhDMsZlqXDLVbF/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYjkg9nwuqVLPgSY20FgY4cyji5ofRmrLVSDzt_tZZvrD2qvDEarNigsOzsdHGHEL5aLiVAkrAGHIQ0yYZEcWrraeA0Ox9f_-NTp71ZQwhSq-NL3k-R0Ygc_UlIvFxxfOhDMsZlqXDLVbF/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665642964263076850" border="0" /></a>All that’s left is hope, doubt, and innocence holding hands in the end, but it’s Dunt’s hope she’s done one true thing in the cave, the boy’s doubt that the cave will work or mean anything, and the innocence of Gainsbourg’s sobbing, jibbering, terror, if you watch the impact carefully you’ll notice Gainsbourg is the first to let go of the other two. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8B5QcD5u0uHnQoEKngI8-HNXaNj29zKpBROKKXtjX99xMr8SJWL99aCF72uLXf3iKshI-ga7E85NZtbZoj4YBkoPQXTHvib0gG-Tvq7TsvBAw4sytm9aKJXOAkodo3iLVEuvy0hCCTAfI/s1600/42.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8B5QcD5u0uHnQoEKngI8-HNXaNj29zKpBROKKXtjX99xMr8SJWL99aCF72uLXf3iKshI-ga7E85NZtbZoj4YBkoPQXTHvib0gG-Tvq7TsvBAw4sytm9aKJXOAkodo3iLVEuvy0hCCTAfI/s400/42.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649347033122786" border="0" /></a>As a rule, the endings of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lars Von Trier </span>films, the final scenes, are usually the most important parts of the film. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDiZXFm2D6yrgP_jsYVwDr6S6DZpQ4HcH6OiJJLdgdsQ2qBpaRtMZDsfwVNFmFUpx4Gm0sOE-Srbjl1UmHQrxX8LzNDkSJJru8PCOWLjU4LKviu5CjBakgv58MXiX9xcIgVUOV1tDlhoD1/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDiZXFm2D6yrgP_jsYVwDr6S6DZpQ4HcH6OiJJLdgdsQ2qBpaRtMZDsfwVNFmFUpx4Gm0sOE-Srbjl1UmHQrxX8LzNDkSJJru8PCOWLjU4LKviu5CjBakgv58MXiX9xcIgVUOV1tDlhoD1/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643205847908786" border="0" /></a>They radically challenge our views of everything that’s come before, most notably in<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “Breaking The Waves</span>” and<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “Dogville”</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Melancholia"</span> continues with this tradition. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqk8IxaZYbX2cXjmQTjUFp91DB2Ss_ydeAopHfUXDN9LzFdWAHZNUdTZyfByEsd24RdiEFA81peXA6dqiEpGk_JMDZeBMuPa7XljKlr426CbL6aBBgi3ND4IxeUEzteZOGagNcDaxmjJK/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqk8IxaZYbX2cXjmQTjUFp91DB2Ss_ydeAopHfUXDN9LzFdWAHZNUdTZyfByEsd24RdiEFA81peXA6dqiEpGk_JMDZeBMuPa7XljKlr426CbL6aBBgi3ND4IxeUEzteZOGagNcDaxmjJK/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665643473568115954" border="0" /></a>Why was the fairy tale wedding ultimately a sham, but the real sham fairy tale enacted in the end scene more real than anything that’s come before? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOm3z9kNbSkZs-Z5MenB_INH1tk-5hZyYuDrRdC1KBjRf6JWJVdXEyuO4M5SliAK6FHtJyDHLxrPk-dtH4lQ4Z0JGyMX90uO8gh8-QbaqFOH2n52wA8o0f107z63imCIM7Con1yjqWzcEb/s1600/47.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOm3z9kNbSkZs-Z5MenB_INH1tk-5hZyYuDrRdC1KBjRf6JWJVdXEyuO4M5SliAK6FHtJyDHLxrPk-dtH4lQ4Z0JGyMX90uO8gh8-QbaqFOH2n52wA8o0f107z63imCIM7Con1yjqWzcEb/s400/47.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649575826345538" border="0" /></a>Is shared suffering necessary as a pre-requisite to connecting with other human beings? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzOlKS6Rv7VEuTVbyaTsofmbI61oA2L0UVECzLrIg-4MCpkwGES6Y8LWU1PXsyyCTaJSvVpAQF3JddwlDUx7_-0gvW7ayU93dM8mEXh_HfLsojknin41OMv-P_4bdQBQQ8ThoaBOC_ohx/s1600/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzOlKS6Rv7VEuTVbyaTsofmbI61oA2L0UVECzLrIg-4MCpkwGES6Y8LWU1PXsyyCTaJSvVpAQF3JddwlDUx7_-0gvW7ayU93dM8mEXh_HfLsojknin41OMv-P_4bdQBQQ8ThoaBOC_ohx/s400/21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665659996203644178" border="0" /></a>Think of those characters who hide from each other from the mother in her bedroom, to the father reduced to a goodbye note, to Sutherland’s abrupt exit, to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Udo Kier</span> as the wedding planner who won’t look Dunst in the face because <span style="font-style: italic;">“she ruined my wedding”,</span> all of these are connected, twigs along the magic cave to keep <span style="font-style: italic;">Melancholia</span> away.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkNGBTaV4KeojHiQRMJBtF6OXlwSsqS7aFnatvBvLMK5cXuoWv3uFt00ROMy5SVFc6sI5LgUgvuH_PCKCPCfks1EAGH2OVzkznBQq3k01A0guS7ucHN1z8WIcpmFmYs10d-5X6owbG4l8/s1600/39.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkNGBTaV4KeojHiQRMJBtF6OXlwSsqS7aFnatvBvLMK5cXuoWv3uFt00ROMy5SVFc6sI5LgUgvuH_PCKCPCfks1EAGH2OVzkznBQq3k01A0guS7ucHN1z8WIcpmFmYs10d-5X6owbG4l8/s400/39.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665649141982296338" border="0" /></a>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-64070181054107909382011-09-20T16:18:00.000-07:002011-09-20T20:26:52.819-07:00Is When?<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Future(2011)</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbg9RwCd9CEHE3n6lfbrO7okbX2z4BkRBrUMPlG45NJl28Qv_RHgvKfaBgbptPyxf-RYMiPffAq-ZCEVcoP6qBq42wV8HhsE8UoVaamSsYUZNTPcl_USaXdIWYhm3BREBMqC_AdDNOd71/s1600/37.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbg9RwCd9CEHE3n6lfbrO7okbX2z4BkRBrUMPlG45NJl28Qv_RHgvKfaBgbptPyxf-RYMiPffAq-ZCEVcoP6qBq42wV8HhsE8UoVaamSsYUZNTPcl_USaXdIWYhm3BREBMqC_AdDNOd71/s400/37.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654592004074004594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Directed By Miranda July</span><br /></div><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrddTCepYeyHeuT1inhi0Zm2GG3FIFWWBuRf8yMxjyQMlTiuhlWQuOv4VwPM-RvLSt_KU5dd-DF7Wygynha-ovIMxutEyYGcQTy6_TJHPQvEy4jHxWhR6O0gg10k_qibo9x2Fg0XG_Qdn/s1600/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrddTCepYeyHeuT1inhi0Zm2GG3FIFWWBuRf8yMxjyQMlTiuhlWQuOv4VwPM-RvLSt_KU5dd-DF7Wygynha-ovIMxutEyYGcQTy6_TJHPQvEy4jHxWhR6O0gg10k_qibo9x2Fg0XG_Qdn/s400/21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590939671969026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Miranda July </span>has a very singular cinematic style that most people dismiss away as twee or cloying, which to me is a very superficial dismissal, because it gets no deeper than her characters softly eccentric clothing and homemade art projects, and ignores the complex webs of relationships she created in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Me, And You, And Everyone We Know"</span> which continues in her latest film <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"The Future",</span> but now includes characters that aren't human, and events impossible. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QL91M2uhmiaFKoSzzhX0SC9VRV0D9LbTDpXiSEf5t4pNA9K4zGM3TEkDe0_XUiRJ1GdLHrmcvgYnNuUk8fdMRyA7R9elXXCd0q5w54Sh53XTtJoaeX8gVMcU9kInauq1hNYYdB7bdVkJ/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QL91M2uhmiaFKoSzzhX0SC9VRV0D9LbTDpXiSEf5t4pNA9K4zGM3TEkDe0_XUiRJ1GdLHrmcvgYnNuUk8fdMRyA7R9elXXCd0q5w54Sh53XTtJoaeX8gVMcU9kInauq1hNYYdB7bdVkJ/s400/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590397277737010" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Future</span> is about a couple in their mid-thirties, Sophie <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(Miranda July)</span> is a children's dance instructor, while Jason <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(Hamish Linklater)</span> has a job in tech-support that he can do from home on the couch. <span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXznezgYN9PrIlmrgF1xHFKF2F6cL7nSbLWv6txB4ztszaZpe1DHG9mzw3ibLz2SauiRuKOxYdhr-JXHVGs9Si4UAYCfrdjME8nc5n_NjmVjzoMIulEreHnw75lkyvGPiW2peuNWDYGoJ/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXznezgYN9PrIlmrgF1xHFKF2F6cL7nSbLWv6txB4ztszaZpe1DHG9mzw3ibLz2SauiRuKOxYdhr-JXHVGs9Si4UAYCfrdjME8nc5n_NjmVjzoMIulEreHnw75lkyvGPiW2peuNWDYGoJ/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654589840010791394" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">The two live happily, if uneventfully, in their own world of private jokes, musings, and intimate tangents, the kind that all couples have but that like excessive public displays of affection are rarely observed by those in the outside world. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAL8AVKWQTXa7_LCrewen73_0QS8OGa2VUci8XNvbcZti1rn8dBSJHAp20tBtgfOk6DitWP75YIEuapBQ0yYDONMzxhhb1fIHF6jfHUvmBKL9kOhfjJcUibNh3imvFhecJq27h2WyQjGkM/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAL8AVKWQTXa7_LCrewen73_0QS8OGa2VUci8XNvbcZti1rn8dBSJHAp20tBtgfOk6DitWP75YIEuapBQ0yYDONMzxhhb1fIHF6jfHUvmBKL9kOhfjJcUibNh3imvFhecJq27h2WyQjGkM/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654589834079322210" border="0" /></a></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">They have decided to adopt a kitten, but a sick one that is scheduled to die in six months, so that it will be not so much a commitment as a few months of charity, and maybe also maybe a dry run to having children. The "c" word never comes up directly, but its visible in nervous glances they exchange when they discover the cat could live another four years. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"We'll be forty by then".</span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""> </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgurGILel_YYpG3dxcl10-w35n1j5uFOl13oNAu0B2ddh7hPSahGbcheeS12bd_NKqk-X5quh8jpId7L1NmJVF0A2Mu1ARo8uuE7G4PMRNhZTCdoRDwmmDPUIgNWlRsTXxz17rkaiFZonP/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 151px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgurGILel_YYpG3dxcl10-w35n1j5uFOl13oNAu0B2ddh7hPSahGbcheeS12bd_NKqk-X5quh8jpId7L1NmJVF0A2Mu1ARo8uuE7G4PMRNhZTCdoRDwmmDPUIgNWlRsTXxz17rkaiFZonP/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654589679419496642" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">The kitten in question, named <span style="font-style: italic;">Paw Paw</span>, also serves as a narrator, but one whose perspective is completely limited to his cage, and his imaginings of what life will be like once he is adopted by July and </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Linklater</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpsSVwYfBFIMyPVCwHO4NQzaqm0A9ifrYk_7jWKqauX1YfRlZoVfDtgC06QLopMWHlN9Z0zsse__y9-pbwbzxzBuud_TmcQ8bxQQeNbLFbfyKYUzRXnyh9yqFBAVqVLpMQjSVXtjJXliR/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpsSVwYfBFIMyPVCwHO4NQzaqm0A9ifrYk_7jWKqauX1YfRlZoVfDtgC06QLopMWHlN9Z0zsse__y9-pbwbzxzBuud_TmcQ8bxQQeNbLFbfyKYUzRXnyh9yqFBAVqVLpMQjSVXtjJXliR/s400/15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590165300482498" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span style="font-style: italic;">Paw Paw</span> is unfailing, undying hope for the future incarnate. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">He's always been an outside cat, the world of inside sounds like a paradise. So too, do July and </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Linklater</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""> proceed from their cage like apartment to map out their own futures. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuBMpTLC8jimExnV9QWtu1UoD5cQYpQoq3lJRfoSTiM1F-MT3vTzuCYQytW6JDG3S8Sp_9yEERv1Fs5rKUDR2JVvqN1dRvob04tiGmO0XMYjrD_12AhpmZAvbDPVETUS4fBXgRk1yCIb7/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuBMpTLC8jimExnV9QWtu1UoD5cQYpQoq3lJRfoSTiM1F-MT3vTzuCYQytW6JDG3S8Sp_9yEERv1Fs5rKUDR2JVvqN1dRvob04tiGmO0XMYjrD_12AhpmZAvbDPVETUS4fBXgRk1yCIb7/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590159672904466" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">July convinces </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Linklater</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">, they are getting older and must seize the day! Seizing the day requires them to quite their jobs, vow to be<span style="font-style: italic;"> "sincere"</span> with everyone and in all things, to limit Internet access to one hour a day, and follow their dreams. But what are their dreams?</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""> </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYgvb8Vj9SFLFvLf5Y5o1QOz5tTZWt1PCQiNGQ5CEkeUrddsVyIIKqVWUop4Dqmo2K9sFfPzZrhGwO9kVkhfjqO6uhI2W0K_1VmP6oSAJtuUyO6XTUjGfLaWcVV2RFS7d6KIsDrGcnvrT/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYgvb8Vj9SFLFvLf5Y5o1QOz5tTZWt1PCQiNGQ5CEkeUrddsVyIIKqVWUop4Dqmo2K9sFfPzZrhGwO9kVkhfjqO6uhI2W0K_1VmP6oSAJtuUyO6XTUjGfLaWcVV2RFS7d6KIsDrGcnvrT/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654589838415717346" border="0" /></a><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">What one of July's points here seems to be is that people often decide to follow their dreams, before they even know what their dreams are. No one is allowed to exist in the present, unless it is in service to the future. Maybe it's better to just sleep soundly next to your loved one than bother with dreams.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "It's a widely known fact that dreams are just your brains way of taking a dump at the end of the day."</span>-<span style="font-style: italic;">Stella,</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Kaboom"</span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""> </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCi98vjdQB1l2sYxQsxOHSCVoVhDS-Slskdr9rmBc9u-7rcdVpi7Fw_qpg21rcaLYqoISk8LWNfgGIIgqAleHhYI7PFZdhkVn0tGinZV_zHwx1pD5v_XdwsY-3Q4yUseJTlQR_HXDUpWm/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCi98vjdQB1l2sYxQsxOHSCVoVhDS-Slskdr9rmBc9u-7rcdVpi7Fw_qpg21rcaLYqoISk8LWNfgGIIgqAleHhYI7PFZdhkVn0tGinZV_zHwx1pD5v_XdwsY-3Q4yUseJTlQR_HXDUpWm/s400/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590164020828034" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">One great scene finds July watching two of her friends, whose lives seem to pass by in seconds, until she's standing in front of their grandchildren. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Notice all the trophies on one side in the screen-shot below from said scene. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><br /></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhon2VdRGJBVE-vVGIb0VVLyxbQYyANUYbIwaZZpXE4NGVJXc86TX3Nwr8s7NFnWArtUI5nk6bxRVf5YchscQ_LnRazKLMhN2HvnGeU2V1n8pnTskMO_JC__IwbtLs2sEcRgEyJsq-EUhQv/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhon2VdRGJBVE-vVGIb0VVLyxbQYyANUYbIwaZZpXE4NGVJXc86TX3Nwr8s7NFnWArtUI5nk6bxRVf5YchscQ_LnRazKLMhN2HvnGeU2V1n8pnTskMO_JC__IwbtLs2sEcRgEyJsq-EUhQv/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654589684964224626" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Linklater</span></span> isn't sure what his dreams are, he wants to <span style="font-style: italic;">"help the world"</span> but doesn't know how or where to begin. 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border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Marshall is an older suburban single dad and owner of his own company</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">.</span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""> </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style="">Though we never learn too much of his perspective its obvious she is a shot life to him, while he is her chance to be a<span style="font-style: italic;"> "kept woman"</span>, free of having to decide anything more about the future. Finally a chance, to just "be" and let someone else foot the bill for once. </span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHEzLbp7PZXUylI7CjqCOYY5fuKmbZDLeA_0rA8PPWJMgRzMgYGR5z8ToPXD1d-QfcI2iL65YJyGkpjA4LZVDgZUk6faJjbaqz6ZKMYaDyqe_bOEUUPds9zVGon57bpPsl5FNEPz4o6Dy/s1600/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHEzLbp7PZXUylI7CjqCOYY5fuKmbZDLeA_0rA8PPWJMgRzMgYGR5z8ToPXD1d-QfcI2iL65YJyGkpjA4LZVDgZUk6faJjbaqz6ZKMYaDyqe_bOEUUPds9zVGon57bpPsl5FNEPz4o6Dy/s400/20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590942347419762" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>No more worries about rent, career, talent, beauty, or the entropy of such things. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"I wish I was prettier. I'm on the verge of being attractive, but I still have to make my case to everyone who looks at me."</span></span></span><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">, </span><span>July</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>says of herself early on<span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5fmLjSzSm12OQU7n3CbmZWjHkNzTStq0kasP19hXgMSq2qVK3WcGplEIRxObS6NuIuRwOu2X_qkLMKioz7RbekTjbySUPIkXvW2omW7rKaTJ6T__fvzZfbjD1Q8_ly5ysmL7sdWMOuDN/s1600/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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July's new suburban life is just as dull as her old life, but with no chance of failure or responsibility hanging over her.<span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmukYCIDBVhbfIVmz9AHaQlyTr-KNHRgSxbmq_5e2tG3pQgaljvUFgK19CwsO4kPdGH8hsbRQjdGzRXk9a_gN-qJwMYElLjOgbbX09v5K_V_btMlRNzx0kEUxjwxWHtzFdQhsFd0QJ-S-Y/s1600/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLpCsVr0Q4XB41hXejDYkuCY1XMTB-jwyFIDt5vNEms-_BpgVa27qcMXul4ESe2ZVkJeopYCEBVrANWRbdttSuKLqQ2ieDg4PgwPAP5vJqzmG-mBY_mCW7qth2LuX5Xnyox48j3ICD0RyW/s400/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590405514766658" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>This all sounds complicated, but when all is said and done, the plot makes sense on an emotional level that never gets buried under the allure of its fantasy elements. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsCbhUDehlHY1IOg3voJ2KrmQtGD0rg_VnDQ_H_TIstbvsdhGOeY94CdVDfhsNXk67AR0UFBJarBwFKxBW96X3KfYMGEDSWhQ9SGm42CvAEfJOcJfZTtFE0Y1bQbbt1BD3TDTlOCLR590/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsCbhUDehlHY1IOg3voJ2KrmQtGD0rg_VnDQ_H_TIstbvsdhGOeY94CdVDfhsNXk67AR0UFBJarBwFKxBW96X3KfYMGEDSWhQ9SGm42CvAEfJOcJfZTtFE0Y1bQbbt1BD3TDTlOCLR590/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654590936618659058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Future"</span> finds Miranda July stepping into interstitial territory previously synonymous with <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Woody Allen</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Charlie Kaufman</span>; combing personal details (<span style="font-style: italic;">"30 Dances, 30 Days"</span> is a more amateurish version of July's <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Blond Redhead</span> music video), with a satirical eye for conventional relationships equally open to turns of the dramatic, the neurotic, the deadpan, and the poetic. <span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrATFWcghhNgQGQVGrKaGzQGQQqooQRneQQl0ke8Pd6IaWG60jGlh8c0bh3E0yeQV5E1kfUYqoNgMKdiosUwFyM6kohN-7KWQVcWE79Ihb3vCuKrVoxKTy_cFJtOcVBcEvUolang9j4B1F/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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Maybe its the looming of the future itself, its shadow across the surface of what responsible lives are supposed to resemble that drives these characters from their simple "twee" world of uni-sex haircuts, security blankets and sleepy, snuggly, afternoons, and into ruin, bitterness, and isolation. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"When your just starting out...you'll do terrible things to each other"-</span><span style="font-style: italic;">the old man</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">.</span> <span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tTSJL_cc8X7l2cyDSlcCUTWMBNC5Em9kbE0uc93LNE3bNXP72cs9hESC9XnXbwlYZaZKVmebGvNtn4Jp97hC8UBDYtsAMJ6DMZkzt0FbuWDsIIGtDAll63G_utG1oQQAB1vBVkucgzEc/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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font-weight: bold;">"Eraserhead"</span> if he had to work at a build-a-bear in the mall. <span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKMMJHn-y5LlPjoEpY4YdzK3Z8MC5hFiEp60fhJz1WP6sDmP9DSnzvWHGmmgWcDbxhPAnaK6DJN6fb_ft3xVZ28zB4LKW0_k-T3vxktca975vzJISDNsiKvBv4xsBdthDUPbU0JpSz3oB/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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Bitter-sweet is beauty without sentiment, true acceptance of how cosmically wonderous all the minutia of daily life is while never forgetting most of it will be forgotten tomorrow. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"The Future"</span> is bittersweet. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span 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kittens is wounded and waiting. <span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><span id="app2558160538_myRatingCommentMore" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lIvNby2Fj9lmSCXX7JdAjJHzSoM6enKDDTXHWqFYRwB3F5rgs4Pn9vLq3SWbGHyJW9vHGxXCv7iZd2QDeYY3McFAjc7weyavnFQGpVoK9uCYN-lhYrxIN7OFdNDHnIUq_-dvgMZQ91Ed/s1600/34.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lIvNby2Fj9lmSCXX7JdAjJHzSoM6enKDDTXHWqFYRwB3F5rgs4Pn9vLq3SWbGHyJW9vHGxXCv7iZd2QDeYY3McFAjc7weyavnFQGpVoK9uCYN-lhYrxIN7OFdNDHnIUq_-dvgMZQ91Ed/s400/34.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654591670478447506" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-51474003766938626582011-09-18T20:26:00.000-07:002011-09-19T10:21:05.518-07:00Shopping Is Feeling<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">True Stories(1986)</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCfkyrq4D9Vvj34EM1EkmZmBWesrxPtngG7obOwolG_gCtft26epEckCpn9Ofp1JEERPqewmCWSgdwjpBticxUvSK1zvr0M8mCurSmOyabv6Z3B8-F4cna6HkoPp7nIkt0TCpoi5gYqiY/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCfkyrq4D9Vvj34EM1EkmZmBWesrxPtngG7obOwolG_gCtft26epEckCpn9Ofp1JEERPqewmCWSgdwjpBticxUvSK1zvr0M8mCurSmOyabv6Z3B8-F4cna6HkoPp7nIkt0TCpoi5gYqiY/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653929609182696178" border="0" /></a></span>Directed By David Byrne</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiahUxeYWozu9A1Xvs8zYp3cEydvNVQbl-1FmmN4RtVizAZVfkw0BbvNjKpE4ugWtzuNSOIcjsbzVIy9PGkE7dh1XBMlSt3uBiigflLOnkUXEnAYWValyjuU6leAZJ8xJYxQqveePtNR5E/s1600/David-Byrne-Sounds-From-True-486385.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiahUxeYWozu9A1Xvs8zYp3cEydvNVQbl-1FmmN4RtVizAZVfkw0BbvNjKpE4ugWtzuNSOIcjsbzVIy9PGkE7dh1XBMlSt3uBiigflLOnkUXEnAYWValyjuU6leAZJ8xJYxQqveePtNR5E/s400/David-Byrne-Sounds-From-True-486385.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653929799996663266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"I used to like dinosaurs, I think allot of kids did"-David Byrne </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Z3CvpOpuGYMpeG8aiSznD61URkyfJwzmJmJEQ92pbd5DPgGNfd5nnYe9ebw4QxyM5fb80r2nHA7IusGRSTIfy1GC9AsWRXX90QTcXco5Sf8ML1XAEwXmwy4Zjq5fvjOU_smafOq7-IPq/s1600/21.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Z3CvpOpuGYMpeG8aiSznD61URkyfJwzmJmJEQ92pbd5DPgGNfd5nnYe9ebw4QxyM5fb80r2nHA7IusGRSTIfy1GC9AsWRXX90QTcXco5Sf8ML1XAEwXmwy4Zjq5fvjOU_smafOq7-IPq/s400/21.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653912466749262914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">David Byrne</span> of the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Talking Heads</span>, has made one of the oddest films I have ever seen.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytRv8LinuavtD63KzTtsQYqGR7vI7MGfs9qm0ECvNxBd-dffCCwkRAPxpRegtroQQSbBfvJb30M15j0lwf23yMJC7Yk9jM7WrPzPpRdbAStL0yYaYdvwGbOSeIKRDPtRYXJKMZpaj9PWm/s1600/17.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytRv8LinuavtD63KzTtsQYqGR7vI7MGfs9qm0ECvNxBd-dffCCwkRAPxpRegtroQQSbBfvJb30M15j0lwf23yMJC7Yk9jM7WrPzPpRdbAStL0yYaYdvwGbOSeIKRDPtRYXJKMZpaj9PWm/s400/17.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653910928138037394" border="0" /></a> It feels like <span style="font-style: italic;">he </span>came up with an idea, and then had to put allot of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Talking Heads </span>musical moments into it, to justify it's existence. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqc1znduM0o4rnw7gw46f10Is-n4Yecy9mmgvZvAEmXzhzzoP4c_WjLDUyr6AaAr0IuAwqBJdCzpBR8cxfuSrGW0hndsgdDH1Y6-TEDWAg5v7VZEtcLpqjAUM-MuktfIeeGueNmml1bcN/s1600/2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqc1znduM0o4rnw7gw46f10Is-n4Yecy9mmgvZvAEmXzhzzoP4c_WjLDUyr6AaAr0IuAwqBJdCzpBR8cxfuSrGW0hndsgdDH1Y6-TEDWAg5v7VZEtcLpqjAUM-MuktfIeeGueNmml1bcN/s400/2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653907344903193202" border="0" /></a>The songs are plentiful (<span style="font-style: italic;">not the band's best, and a few of their worst</span>), and the routines surrounding them are whimsical and absurd, and at times just terrible <span style="font-style: italic;">(there's a fashion show in the mall, that's pretty great though, recalling <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fellini's Roma</span>, a movie I hated, but which this makes more than a few nods)</span>. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-G879R0FFJWoqTgwsYEWLmGY8WVjtLWLPxrwKQnDn5PTnqzvqgmDhi58NR-ovDWHH37UshBDAnLLHxv3_GosLLDW6yvfsScY-3YBC2M2WeRm5cMyF_7LWYezVoDlHqxwSUKe7AmgcmKE/s1600/5.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-G879R0FFJWoqTgwsYEWLmGY8WVjtLWLPxrwKQnDn5PTnqzvqgmDhi58NR-ovDWHH37UshBDAnLLHxv3_GosLLDW6yvfsScY-3YBC2M2WeRm5cMyF_7LWYezVoDlHqxwSUKe7AmgcmKE/s400/5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653907657240202290" border="0" /></a>The film is set in a place called <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Virgil</span> in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>, a small town having its annual celebration of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Specialness"</span>, and follows Byrne<span style="font-style: italic;">(who also stars) </span>as our guide to the town and its eccentric folk. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDUNoy7238pfgZk6h-fcwYplgVCZUx8R7YAkjSQkNLnYIpRp4dp21ifDGpDS1bYDc5I8LlB8yAOl1Z9FISzzgfmWcJla0v0pBV31ktNLoWttv9eReKW1ZT3qQCc04sTncoQkLjFoEycvl/s1600/15.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDUNoy7238pfgZk6h-fcwYplgVCZUx8R7YAkjSQkNLnYIpRp4dp21ifDGpDS1bYDc5I8LlB8yAOl1Z9FISzzgfmWcJla0v0pBV31ktNLoWttv9eReKW1ZT3qQCc04sTncoQkLjFoEycvl/s400/15.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653911502361576194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8b6jK84IfnBUP1eIi7oLeIqBzk3RRc8wmcYHCHpVGoMCCqkci8Mc8P9p75Adc1bHN9a_a_0xBy2gJOxfftFkMCj47JurPRFzqaQeHw_hpoaUWK8WDQLqhvi2RR86pwfkwirWUWlFOGD7/s1600/25.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8b6jK84IfnBUP1eIi7oLeIqBzk3RRc8wmcYHCHpVGoMCCqkci8Mc8P9p75Adc1bHN9a_a_0xBy2gJOxfftFkMCj47JurPRFzqaQeHw_hpoaUWK8WDQLqhvi2RR86pwfkwirWUWlFOGD7/s400/25.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653912554378450498" border="0" /></a>While making the film Byrne collected all the oddest <span style="font-style: italic;">"true stories" </span>he could from newspapers, like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Spalding Grey</span> as a man who has not spoken to his wife directly for 15 years, to a woman who has retired early and only wants to stay in bed and watch TV, to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">John Goodman,</span> who if Byrne is narrator, than he is the closest we come to a main character. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxIG-fACTjkVBn4-jW4uJF2eWfzImuNsJ85aILhOsnRsGYkbTbzpmC_MzJ3m8bc_LzlufhFbzNktm_SS4x8hxCHAp2X1cL68EG6AUGxyiFO6jh0juJGQUNTcGqvT_cdorwVsq14aLI2dW/s1600/18.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxIG-fACTjkVBn4-jW4uJF2eWfzImuNsJ85aILhOsnRsGYkbTbzpmC_MzJ3m8bc_LzlufhFbzNktm_SS4x8hxCHAp2X1cL68EG6AUGxyiFO6jh0juJGQUNTcGqvT_cdorwVsq14aLI2dW/s400/18.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653911662368551586" border="0" /></a>Goodman is trying to find a wife, by putting out televised commercials of himself; <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"I'm 6'3", and maintain a very consistent panda bear shape." </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2cY3_b3DHUJWZD4lKtieYzHv-UxZbnccLc1jFwxG9c6xfXT5WhnAQv1eS03hSdVhHESoqN_nVu92n8T9EcpgU933tuivojO-JSLU6WdS1U-TagLcELfShyphenhypheny-O6leaCRL1Cxu9WN6HCG4/s1600/4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2cY3_b3DHUJWZD4lKtieYzHv-UxZbnccLc1jFwxG9c6xfXT5WhnAQv1eS03hSdVhHESoqN_nVu92n8T9EcpgU933tuivojO-JSLU6WdS1U-TagLcELfShyphenhypheny-O6leaCRL1Cxu9WN6HCG4/s400/4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653907502382222466" border="0" /></a>It's dated, but very unique and a bit inspired. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRcU6cR2JClt8JA2Hn9AK5DvEiVy_Y3d1sHkzhH9od1q7UaojYmbYLjU9ZJV5hTOJ_02LOg4pcAUYFS_snmcuJ2F4hmmrhvFvI1W-2_lvL6VLcPXBlRqaeXeZwYqmfu0II8yk4dyC5DgF/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRcU6cR2JClt8JA2Hn9AK5DvEiVy_Y3d1sHkzhH9od1q7UaojYmbYLjU9ZJV5hTOJ_02LOg4pcAUYFS_snmcuJ2F4hmmrhvFvI1W-2_lvL6VLcPXBlRqaeXeZwYqmfu0II8yk4dyC5DgF/s400/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653909814094877858" border="0" /></a>Rumor has it there are 50 sets of twins in this movie, I tried counting but lost track. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIrUN4TpeHI5WvGMB0WsTv-WCB1_deH8tFU01TpRv2OcK1Gr0YAsi78vxpDAGBHqcq33XUJab47tWWjrCkgp63BpLIhCAsbP5pjKE7GdivCS8pOnoGPzciZBMnjTahxhpzI9zlG6l8dhm/s1600/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIrUN4TpeHI5WvGMB0WsTv-WCB1_deH8tFU01TpRv2OcK1Gr0YAsi78vxpDAGBHqcq33XUJab47tWWjrCkgp63BpLIhCAsbP5pjKE7GdivCS8pOnoGPzciZBMnjTahxhpzI9zlG6l8dhm/s400/26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653912859615610690" border="0" /></a>It's just one of many strange, deadpan features of this movie, like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">David Byrne's </span>cowboy hat and voice which never rises above monotone. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"What time is it? No time to look back!" </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusMEnmbrCv5hYbsryx1IoA5ZybV0zPKEWOsp2tqn3gi4xOOeRNKzCrO-aFxGgxIagxwZ2iebVoQV4MhaSDSVtJWZGCq8AJiWZZn8gOLZHX68rLtbGQ_b6__IyRhaBhJTAxw0FgVbM5hGp/s1600/7.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusMEnmbrCv5hYbsryx1IoA5ZybV0zPKEWOsp2tqn3gi4xOOeRNKzCrO-aFxGgxIagxwZ2iebVoQV4MhaSDSVtJWZGCq8AJiWZZn8gOLZHX68rLtbGQ_b6__IyRhaBhJTAxw0FgVbM5hGp/s400/7.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653908110035857522" border="0" /></a>Allot of it feels out of place, well actually all of it feels out place, but it would be silly to act like it's oddness was only a detriment, it's also the driving point of interest. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM00hJMikQbySMZxeZf6_WThTA8GVx3yIRNN0vr1D5jexeyVvn6-WchHZ60vnLrPELEULuvj6J66OcEamP87OvPSM5nC1X__H1LHVXyLAKFy5ogsDCpOkLjbhR4YIbNR8l08v1pf_MrjsF/s1600/8.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM00hJMikQbySMZxeZf6_WThTA8GVx3yIRNN0vr1D5jexeyVvn6-WchHZ60vnLrPELEULuvj6J66OcEamP87OvPSM5nC1X__H1LHVXyLAKFy5ogsDCpOkLjbhR4YIbNR8l08v1pf_MrjsF/s400/8.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653908169857997586" border="0" /></a>Like the fake static backgrounds of Texas landscape during Byrne's driving sequences.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJBTuW-Stm48XoSS7vJCsVAUqky3D79CAQkOrR1xrcNaH0d81qgSsyTApUoQYzOkv38_TD4Mx4I6dHnjYMinXycEBGvNQrapTqBqc4Z0n0NnSoItAWvB-grXAvv73XJdRRjJxC6GEKJlV/s1600/3.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 388px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJBTuW-Stm48XoSS7vJCsVAUqky3D79CAQkOrR1xrcNaH0d81qgSsyTApUoQYzOkv38_TD4Mx4I6dHnjYMinXycEBGvNQrapTqBqc4Z0n0NnSoItAWvB-grXAvv73XJdRRjJxC6GEKJlV/s400/3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653907418402596098" border="0" /></a>It's a beautifully made film, the cinematographer was a vet, and it's full of musings like<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "I really enjoy forgetting. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDssDXfIPgAuro74lN76HtJEaRiSLAnPY8ScjoEodu5bKawYLdwgWB2Z_A-62nlB_6tZ1X3X2Q_BC7RgavfFEBsUkzzWBs-uzX4U72iq-TiAiJ1bazpbZyTm3Ccj_aVb_U_PaAHfwo4B8/s1600/13.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDssDXfIPgAuro74lN76HtJEaRiSLAnPY8ScjoEodu5bKawYLdwgWB2Z_A-62nlB_6tZ1X3X2Q_BC7RgavfFEBsUkzzWBs-uzX4U72iq-TiAiJ1bazpbZyTm3Ccj_aVb_U_PaAHfwo4B8/s400/13.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653909974143567266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn76Shk6P2C06hNkdsN4ExDZwEUd2PBCM5vsmdx02JB4u5Q7IH_CL73ooujfmpxwQb1YjzYWCnuw4Kc3y4pJfJAJQsrMvfehmTc2Ejc849EJZ-blynlSZahnmlLcyKhZ4IilHkBaOw0IjD/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn76Shk6P2C06hNkdsN4ExDZwEUd2PBCM5vsmdx02JB4u5Q7IH_CL73ooujfmpxwQb1YjzYWCnuw4Kc3y4pJfJAJQsrMvfehmTc2Ejc849EJZ-blynlSZahnmlLcyKhZ4IilHkBaOw0IjD/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653909614077467330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZRu0LK4QqcV0jLpx903wGOJu8uoRpNW5sUcEssIZdrQDe2s50Z2PTU73YgapQ_XqjfgMwpnSV7JT-nS6OE6T4gcgpkbE3kmE3S0fuioo6lazQVhjfRwnUm5pi3ZPpj-95OiA8IUOFUhf/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZRu0LK4QqcV0jLpx903wGOJu8uoRpNW5sUcEssIZdrQDe2s50Z2PTU73YgapQ_XqjfgMwpnSV7JT-nS6OE6T4gcgpkbE3kmE3S0fuioo6lazQVhjfRwnUm5pi3ZPpj-95OiA8IUOFUhf/s400/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653909665014399682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is." </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidl11zDxH0Ad5Kp60IyoQl2pE1iRUmzZP988LzcbXEjWv9vRwKzP8GbKZS6UqPSqYMX1UIYnu166Os2THaKLK-xoFtjWZvYTwhBMS0eGyKK3QabSCSi81CaEv36vwzSv1LJ-7N5CuA0sox/s1600/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidl11zDxH0Ad5Kp60IyoQl2pE1iRUmzZP988LzcbXEjWv9vRwKzP8GbKZS6UqPSqYMX1UIYnu166Os2THaKLK-xoFtjWZvYTwhBMS0eGyKK3QabSCSi81CaEv36vwzSv1LJ-7N5CuA0sox/s400/27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653913150047612850" border="0" /></a>In the end, it's amusing and idiosyncratic portrait of Americana, the weird tale, tall tales, and Byrne's stylings both <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Talking Heads" </span>and poetic. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA5MoqSUat1kj79xcdjb59TCYcycXd0nflPH0-LoUllpJfPupTvHgjtmCkfqSByp1DmRMLL9PD0Xa_vbnfEkaWyMvZCLmERRc6ThRy5HR99GIUuRL-1G-1uphUYwLsWF7_vT4pM0GHzRG/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA5MoqSUat1kj79xcdjb59TCYcycXd0nflPH0-LoUllpJfPupTvHgjtmCkfqSByp1DmRMLL9PD0Xa_vbnfEkaWyMvZCLmERRc6ThRy5HR99GIUuRL-1G-1uphUYwLsWF7_vT4pM0GHzRG/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653907290355603858" border="0" /></a>Later <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">David Lynch's</span> short film <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "The Cowboy And The Frenchmen"</span> would seek out similar territory, if not quite same surrealism of a big mouth bass on the wall next to a portrait of dogs playing poker and voodoo alters in the backs of pawn shops, the type on display in the town of Virgil. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Sv3D15UGeGxotb6n_Cm5ichoUK1GY0KEHCa8zzNRkQYc9mxs5A3Q36gZhxR39WJJc9uzCSy2lkp80Ki6tmwIWT8BJPX8JsJzlc6s7-DzB-3Xa_zMWZ3tV7BmVU3hIm26d6wuJoABC5eP/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Sv3D15UGeGxotb6n_Cm5ichoUK1GY0KEHCa8zzNRkQYc9mxs5A3Q36gZhxR39WJJc9uzCSy2lkp80Ki6tmwIWT8BJPX8JsJzlc6s7-DzB-3Xa_zMWZ3tV7BmVU3hIm26d6wuJoABC5eP/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653908267607758722" border="0" /></a>This is a movie I like to hum along to. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y-TM8uOEnQfXGDngpi4B6IRYq1sKDKmuYVPb6WFI7_Vq3GbN5AjUe9ti9h8TSwWkY_RI6qB-awaaE6Ay7nnOQhi1XSMEiz9Epxk9SeOl_1rJOBoZAcuRnazsGkYb9zUX2LhevXNplllP/s1600/14.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y-TM8uOEnQfXGDngpi4B6IRYq1sKDKmuYVPb6WFI7_Vq3GbN5AjUe9ti9h8TSwWkY_RI6qB-awaaE6Ay7nnOQhi1XSMEiz9Epxk9SeOl_1rJOBoZAcuRnazsGkYb9zUX2LhevXNplllP/s400/14.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653910189762182482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Shopping is feeling" </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXfdRb35KXYsBQ3xlQSgY1jiqDZB4pB9P_UiWZzfVhcReO52U0__vp86xYjrOO3jEflPkSdchi5L3067y9j9sm8yj9-eRiKuAmWmEVC4o97DhznKj_nJn-i24FiLG71lPoCY2KajYFk8m/s1600/16.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXfdRb35KXYsBQ3xlQSgY1jiqDZB4pB9P_UiWZzfVhcReO52U0__vp86xYjrOO3jEflPkSdchi5L3067y9j9sm8yj9-eRiKuAmWmEVC4o97DhznKj_nJn-i24FiLG71lPoCY2KajYFk8m/s400/16.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653910679518797314" border="0" /></a>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-15056376843264506032011-09-18T16:13:00.000-07:002011-09-18T18:48:47.809-07:00Man, Machine, And Melody<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">D</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">rive(2011)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-t8TO1fta1j5uR1xUIZlQz75Hldgyq6AtK2l_KwHBxyIR3diHhqKuq0KszH1J28HmcHU_TFHTA85km-rgam3UC6a-0eGsu4TqT5MD1_o3P5nbOxVkI-bovRcVIH0qRxevEJoWtUGuqli/s1600/Drive-Poster-5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-t8TO1fta1j5uR1xUIZlQz75Hldgyq6AtK2l_KwHBxyIR3diHhqKuq0KszH1J28HmcHU_TFHTA85km-rgam3UC6a-0eGsu4TqT5MD1_o3P5nbOxVkI-bovRcVIH0qRxevEJoWtUGuqli/s400/Drive-Poster-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653873882727339714" border="0" /></a>Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbFDlEauIKxhyi9OTgzk1HSYtemMSNQZOago_ez6Hwo6yXRq5w630FULfMW4Q1Y7tR9PLqPpJXOLOLkIS-lF5gCYZjlXZbSB_HsfYrNjlJz9oBTo7HEjNwYWuJUpiWfInVQLNwgMet8GS/s1600/drive-2011-release-poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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From<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Nicolas Winding Refn</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "Drive" </span>is the first American film for the Danish director whose last films <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Valhalla Rising" </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Bronson"</span>, were both examples of apex genre film making. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXej0CbgbJS3d-Gyfc8zkGs5CqXOMtNcZar6T8Az7bqBCvB9dkggM-aTMBe1z7yyytBNQNRsogGPS0ZNkiKi8AnBeeRL9KFNCxXWLujQIp4xOsIkdUHDD8okcRIcmxbDLLNN847dsk6Pag/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXej0CbgbJS3d-Gyfc8zkGs5CqXOMtNcZar6T8Az7bqBCvB9dkggM-aTMBe1z7yyytBNQNRsogGPS0ZNkiKi8AnBeeRL9KFNCxXWLujQIp4xOsIkdUHDD8okcRIcmxbDLLNN847dsk6Pag/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653855577787769362" border="0" /></a> This time around<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Ryan Gosling</span> stars as the unnamed driver, part time mechanic and part time Hollywood stunt-man, and moonlighting as getaway driver, whose credo is that he is only involved in any crime as long as he is driving and not a second more. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQwER4kIPnZIeTDIGMX4dl12Ov4uwe2HyJ6EFx9QGX_eaJJCMs-wLULrnWvabJzg2x119GHUXOC1VNNblXyQBcro5IYbnakCwwdXilGpnyrqQC1uKgQ4rL_cBHgG9jrkfgBxUaUQB1SYY/s1600/222.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQwER4kIPnZIeTDIGMX4dl12Ov4uwe2HyJ6EFx9QGX_eaJJCMs-wLULrnWvabJzg2x119GHUXOC1VNNblXyQBcro5IYbnakCwwdXilGpnyrqQC1uKgQ4rL_cBHgG9jrkfgBxUaUQB1SYY/s400/222.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653843797128687074" border="0" /></a>This kind of motto is only of interest, because the detachment Gosling shows to his fellow criminals is the same face he shows to everyone he interacts with.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> “I’m yours in that window and not a second after”.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3tTmMntM2h960RVCy5xYvTXgcSSTV0FeDvnoSpuVIvrhO_QAKpmhrCFQ5SSTFGFHMVWZ8S4qpnvRCdDZ4VkL5cTfcicjwynuY7DN5Urzm8XngKI3PLozX2EGcp7qwHwGjr8dkuOV3cLYU/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3tTmMntM2h960RVCy5xYvTXgcSSTV0FeDvnoSpuVIvrhO_QAKpmhrCFQ5SSTFGFHMVWZ8S4qpnvRCdDZ4VkL5cTfcicjwynuY7DN5Urzm8XngKI3PLozX2EGcp7qwHwGjr8dkuOV3cLYU/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653855529168221826" border="0" /></a> This changes when Gosling meets a neighbor<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> (Carey Mulligan)</span> and her son, a neighborly ride after some car trouble leads, to a slowly and quietly blooming fondness between the two, until it’s revealed her husband is going to be released from prison in a week.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-YAb_A4AIrNvDdq8_ogV_T3RKgZ4styhuOFckfdgQGVmxMP4QcvZvr09WRsMX2tsSCOjJ1GRZwpGwnBkYylPJTTfkAzw1zkG0EMEdpvMvsdASu4kmjWT7NCh0clPVXDBT_0Wb8gVRcDL/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-YAb_A4AIrNvDdq8_ogV_T3RKgZ4styhuOFckfdgQGVmxMP4QcvZvr09WRsMX2tsSCOjJ1GRZwpGwnBkYylPJTTfkAzw1zkG0EMEdpvMvsdASu4kmjWT7NCh0clPVXDBT_0Wb8gVRcDL/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653855804994002370" border="0" /></a> This sets off a chain of events involving ex-Hollywood producers of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“eighties action movies” </span>turned mobsters, a suitcase full of cash, a heist gone wrong, etc. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MxPKHjvEbFK1tesxiU16WZr7PLon_fjt5EY1VwiBALtO8pzy4pcMOEIp4PlRPgoWOXu0hz9SThuGVfnT52cDuM4vu8r-zUJ8wSHA0s516jJzcV2gmXjAqfT5QYGRC2xBiN5HIy7GSuKa/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MxPKHjvEbFK1tesxiU16WZr7PLon_fjt5EY1VwiBALtO8pzy4pcMOEIp4PlRPgoWOXu0hz9SThuGVfnT52cDuM4vu8r-zUJ8wSHA0s516jJzcV2gmXjAqfT5QYGRC2xBiN5HIy7GSuKa/s400/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856593389833954" border="0" /></a>What makes <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive”</span> worth seeing? Why not just watch any of<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "The Transporter</span>" or <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Fast And The Furious"</span> franchises?<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “Drive”</span> has style, like all of<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Refn’s</span> films not style over substance, but style as substance. The music, the costumes <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Gosling’s jacket a gaudier homage, among many, to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kenneth Anger’s “Lucifer Rising”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">)</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Los Angeles</span> setting, and the cars themselves take on real weight in the film. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8aoPM_6Y_AolB9eflEvuxHb6VewYKEx0qcdYhT0dmmclEUb-_EH8CyUYROkJsizxxtIo3bHe974ZapTblxVxTfbNgMYWsO-uYT6XQl5liQALpsX_SfirL73BuTMNywQG0wtxCBFx1yUs0/s1600/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8aoPM_6Y_AolB9eflEvuxHb6VewYKEx0qcdYhT0dmmclEUb-_EH8CyUYROkJsizxxtIo3bHe974ZapTblxVxTfbNgMYWsO-uYT6XQl5liQALpsX_SfirL73BuTMNywQG0wtxCBFx1yUs0/s400/24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653859691847621794" border="0" /></a>The music above all, makes the film though. According to <span style="font-style: italic;">Gosling</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>the music <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“…is this dark disco sound: hyper-romantic dance music that has a menacing undertone.”</span>, and Refn <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“If this movie was a piece of music it would be Kraftwerk because Driver is half man, half machine. Kraftwerk was about taking technology and make it melodic, so that was the right approach. We wanted electronic but not retro.”. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJoGRWYPtZvB1sw0bc8yu3UvtYlhLUIKH4-edVIRGRSNj8GgmqyAx_peHwR-zmZzs1bTGmL5dTzLFjExb_gJgnEG0SQX7IZOaCBH1GbVxdoZ0of2Gk9b1QkJgXwe5KdrOk_8IjRnC-2-y/s1600/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJoGRWYPtZvB1sw0bc8yu3UvtYlhLUIKH4-edVIRGRSNj8GgmqyAx_peHwR-zmZzs1bTGmL5dTzLFjExb_gJgnEG0SQX7IZOaCBH1GbVxdoZ0of2Gk9b1QkJgXwe5KdrOk_8IjRnC-2-y/s400/22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653857657669425410" border="0" /></a>Bubbly synths and soft female vocals, act as the perfect compliment to the driver’s sun bleached and neon streaked drives down L.A.s “100,000” streets. It’s important to remember though that <span style="font-style: italic;">Gosling’s</span> character is not playing the songs that form the films soundtrack (<span style="font-style: italic;">it seems as if he prefers silence actually)</span>. The film itself produces the music, which though sounding great, doesn’t make emotional sense to the film until later on, when we finally get glimpses of the driver’s naivete. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW6k2TK1WoaMAfuw5EyKm9eTl9iSbsGglptO3_EamT3YCIX5N-k3YpYM1D20uvMk6Flwkco0JZQXxTRIcdEqLqpkdc3hS5D8NUI1pDMwDLW2MmI97rOf-JyF4za4xjXlH-9NbUx3YCfhUq/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW6k2TK1WoaMAfuw5EyKm9eTl9iSbsGglptO3_EamT3YCIX5N-k3YpYM1D20uvMk6Flwkco0JZQXxTRIcdEqLqpkdc3hS5D8NUI1pDMwDLW2MmI97rOf-JyF4za4xjXlH-9NbUx3YCfhUq/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856704492999522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“I don’t eat I don’t sleep I do nothing but think of you”,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span>croons <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Desire” </span>on the track <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Under Your Spell”</span>, as <span style="font-style: italic;">Gosling </span>and the neighbor think each other. Like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tsai-Ming Liang’s </span>musical-hybrids the pop songs subtitle what the love-lorn characters wish they could say to each other. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLUALXosX43g1PpoMpsayaKTbaJ8v66k16UqMtqpzOcMlrekHBU53KzHMwX2DHfTnKWlozlf2RGW_FSr8KA7LAI-oTtVR1SBgpE9A_A07oPfFriRlQKEXeXXCE_LCbUwM6RflSihDZM9-/s1600/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLUALXosX43g1PpoMpsayaKTbaJ8v66k16UqMtqpzOcMlrekHBU53KzHMwX2DHfTnKWlozlf2RGW_FSr8KA7LAI-oTtVR1SBgpE9A_A07oPfFriRlQKEXeXXCE_LCbUwM6RflSihDZM9-/s400/23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653857660806787378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJQnzNwcb27F8sEjHcmUOd6VvYqoh0Er4VSGz0rWpYDtetxnsicqeuh4IWMROF2m4hPAQ8lNiLKcWrkGqndyEi8pmUdfOh_OCAbk9DvjQ1VieYDvyeNoOHzcIIY6ttvKu859bFSgUKqL4/s1600/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJQnzNwcb27F8sEjHcmUOd6VvYqoh0Er4VSGz0rWpYDtetxnsicqeuh4IWMROF2m4hPAQ8lNiLKcWrkGqndyEi8pmUdfOh_OCAbk9DvjQ1VieYDvyeNoOHzcIIY6ttvKu859bFSgUKqL4/s400/21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653857375571047330" border="0" /></a>By the time the credits role to a song called <span style="font-style: italic;">(with its title sung in refrain during the fade to black) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“A Real Hero”,</span> there is little doubt, that the sugary music is the very sound of the driver’s heartbeat beneath the roar of engines and tire screech. Man, machine, and melody. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAuaBN0rkyIc-C0hkG4kI4k4tkdqj6qCbaox_j5cqcrYDz4DpMbcQLV7KKIY7gneAQ7-uBM3y0pGwTeZu9QiFszVrHcGew6r1sBnlyQ2_EstD0gsIBDCbq586Amn57rHxcV6mDss42_Gq/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAuaBN0rkyIc-C0hkG4kI4k4tkdqj6qCbaox_j5cqcrYDz4DpMbcQLV7KKIY7gneAQ7-uBM3y0pGwTeZu9QiFszVrHcGew6r1sBnlyQ2_EstD0gsIBDCbq586Amn57rHxcV6mDss42_Gq/s400/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856700367755554" border="0" /></a>The Driver himself is a largely silent character, bashful and childlike to some <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“I thought you could take the money and go away, and that….I could uh come with you and…protect you?”</span>, but prone to outbursts of violence, as if they were always lurking beneath the surface waiting to emerge. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ft-CKDcgtnbvzxWcWoZsaA6vdidjqiAaw1QmAkSFFOp1D0mJEPEDBTN9sBmva26BEbXK9bltuByfJ_DjWU3gCpgI48e5C9P-jBREvDjPTRbAxoc857Mp-ntoswWdVmxH2Ck_9Vn3YxJV/s1600/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 189px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ft-CKDcgtnbvzxWcWoZsaA6vdidjqiAaw1QmAkSFFOp1D0mJEPEDBTN9sBmva26BEbXK9bltuByfJ_DjWU3gCpgI48e5C9P-jBREvDjPTRbAxoc857Mp-ntoswWdVmxH2Ck_9Vn3YxJV/s400/27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653855279932148450" border="0" /></a>One scene finding him masked <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Michael Myer</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">s</span> style on a beach, seems to confirm than for all his strong silent type charm, there is something not right quite right about him. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJF5E-2wF-wuhH601jOyo5pQRnufYN-AusAc5Xa7HrLX0xM74FM8hLsdoo-ZkyqUfMKI0aqXpR0d_X92Qynmq0XWqdaGOz26yfXkPinHeBrO8T_Sfy5b5XS69sdMsvsgVQwtOm1othaoqw/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJF5E-2wF-wuhH601jOyo5pQRnufYN-AusAc5Xa7HrLX0xM74FM8hLsdoo-ZkyqUfMKI0aqXpR0d_X92Qynmq0XWqdaGOz26yfXkPinHeBrO8T_Sfy5b5XS69sdMsvsgVQwtOm1othaoqw/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653843950451071810" border="0" /></a>Gosling deserves top marks for playing being able to play innocent puppy-dog and blood soaked terror with such command. All of the performances in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive” </span>are good though, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ron </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pearlman</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>seems right at home as a mob boss, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Bryan Cranston </span><span style="font-style: italic;">does well in his bit as the washed up mento</span><span style="font-style: italic;">r</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">, but Christina Hendricks</span> is under-used. Still it’s rather telling about the seriousness of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive” </span>that it would rather use a bomb-shell like Hendricks to keep us on our toes, rather than introduce us to her bending over a motorcycle <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Michael Bay</span> style or something equally exploitative. Though I wouldn't have minded a little exploitation here to be honest...alas...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0sUcpLYZ4-kzyndFs-g0l5kgiCWfD8ugLJaTiLYyXCM88gWAJXLENP85VuYxCEYn2gDqcy0x_hMrx2soG7ozib02PtlgXBSc95K2VhreS9EUtTdyZMwbBwyHGIVkzoVGPGJPMbyqrhr-/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0sUcpLYZ4-kzyndFs-g0l5kgiCWfD8ugLJaTiLYyXCM88gWAJXLENP85VuYxCEYn2gDqcy0x_hMrx2soG7ozib02PtlgXBSc95K2VhreS9EUtTdyZMwbBwyHGIVkzoVGPGJPMbyqrhr-/s400/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653843295219328402" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Albert Brooks </span>is also surprising here as our hero’s main nemeses, an ex producer of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“shitty 80’s action movies”</span> of the type that <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive”</span> is signifying or as Refn says, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">" “Drive” also belongs to the genre of L.A. noir and to this niche genre, which is called neon noir and a lot of those films are from around 1979 to 1984.” </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGxED7fykJi_Tgz1YXB79DNUVpaxONgx5uhpQ6cRCW9DXJZi82wkc8X9-lrQggzKwqIRenKuydBrW3e52VaoPPER_t2hhpADFHyDd6Fmnv3AGZZbXaiIkjucrqzZJb4xBUlK7lgoPHYp7/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGxED7fykJi_Tgz1YXB79DNUVpaxONgx5uhpQ6cRCW9DXJZi82wkc8X9-lrQggzKwqIRenKuydBrW3e52VaoPPER_t2hhpADFHyDd6Fmnv3AGZZbXaiIkjucrqzZJb4xBUlK7lgoPHYp7/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856185639066578" border="0" /></a>Though the film did remind me of Los Angeles thriller’s like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“To Live And Die In LA”</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">(which also features an electronic pop soundtrack from </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wang Chung</span><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Vice Squad” </span>where the mask/beach scene in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive”</span> is as strange as the funeral fetish scene of the later. Never did the film feel derivative of anything it was compared too, especially the likes of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Bullit” </span>and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Vanishing Point”</span>. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive”</span> is less like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Point Blank” </span>and more like “<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Limey”, “Point Blank’s”</span> younger modern nephew wearing it's Uncle's vintage clothes.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4ZFv-sIzGLsPZ8u0_TIpIuGgjn-lHk6tGUJIf0binub7PRqipd0hXKmByOw52eEldsoGLgqzpZsVVB9Wn1E0XWPrCjYlqidJENX1MsmWek4vv7pmYb3EPvo3gyihXRuggu3IfQPnI6IU/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4ZFv-sIzGLsPZ8u0_TIpIuGgjn-lHk6tGUJIf0binub7PRqipd0hXKmByOw52eEldsoGLgqzpZsVVB9Wn1E0XWPrCjYlqidJENX1MsmWek4vv7pmYb3EPvo3gyihXRuggu3IfQPnI6IU/s400/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856342442898898" border="0" /></a>In <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Drive”</span> the driving is more of a symbol for Gosling’s character’s shark-like loneliness which is only alleviated when he has passengers, someone to share the ride with. The L.A. river scene recalling the out-of -idiom joy rides from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid",</span> and the warmth there in. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuO0Wxl1x4dwP-1eT9lDwzr7sgtQcAuUKLc2u1Lxl0RimyNm4lCZpvg6T3AkrcPp7olQwneLi1G5rQvtCMfu7XyAyk-hUjpr1H_HOwEehDpLkmphMr8YHYu0cUGR5IGmUDXtERJMLgfMh/s1600/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuO0Wxl1x4dwP-1eT9lDwzr7sgtQcAuUKLc2u1Lxl0RimyNm4lCZpvg6T3AkrcPp7olQwneLi1G5rQvtCMfu7XyAyk-hUjpr1H_HOwEehDpLkmphMr8YHYu0cUGR5IGmUDXtERJMLgfMh/s400/25.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653859620855634914" border="0" /></a>The golden scorpion on the back of Gosling’s jacket cannot be ignored though, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“you heard the story of the scorpion right? Well your friend didn’t make it across the river”.</span> Just as it is not the scorpion’s nature to abide fellow travelers, so to is the driver fated to destroy anything that gets close to him, regardless of intentions.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4pI7fxib9qpljLJmK2gdJ8gArq6OEYLF2Ui8H7Z-C3_kWGsMs_Zk3N6YaxSTouEsB-PIk-jSf2ZlEKNYaX9tJPmWWSFToJ_gcoMj5ETwKWmMIbZFm3ouAMpm8KDT_3sfGDGdNEN3kHgZ/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4pI7fxib9qpljLJmK2gdJ8gArq6OEYLF2Ui8H7Z-C3_kWGsMs_Zk3N6YaxSTouEsB-PIk-jSf2ZlEKNYaX9tJPmWWSFToJ_gcoMj5ETwKWmMIbZFm3ouAMpm8KDT_3sfGDGdNEN3kHgZ/s400/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653856498465564994" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Drive”</span> may not be as bizarre or existential as something supposedly dedicated to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Alejandro Jodorowsky</span> might lead you to believe, but it’s a compelling thriller that will make you jump when a gun does go off, rather that turn automatic fire into white noise as more standard fare might this past summer has. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxRqaiW2zg7MwyIpvpe9DemO6SPkD1qTJ0uVDeUf_07cPVBiqmnr1dcT0B4watv7auewnVZ2L5k2qVjTD0bOPOqu-si8e9RvaZF9teu2zauL3Kmmiolz37oHsnYdy5V5QgWJvMqj9VDeO/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxRqaiW2zg7MwyIpvpe9DemO6SPkD1qTJ0uVDeUf_07cPVBiqmnr1dcT0B4watv7auewnVZ2L5k2qVjTD0bOPOqu-si8e9RvaZF9teu2zauL3Kmmiolz37oHsnYdy5V5QgWJvMqj9VDeO/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653854780049548930" border="0" /></a>I don’t think I’ve ever felt embarrassed for a hero the way I did when Gosling says <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“…I could protect you”,</span> staring at his feet like a ten year old caught red-handed. That kind of vulnerability is rare in an action film, even rarer in a <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"super-hero"</span> film as this has been referred to, by it's cast. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiMdynoABGVmTQOibtoOflIaDb2d72pc9lAixW_T_SCKGf0z1jBwimq4ZSSL6QVf-7PQ42AJRXXLW8Zzo4YsY9D9653CFHI1fCypATmZneUOYLENEdEdBcX4dmkLT_b8tXX-SykBBLsvu/s1600/28.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiMdynoABGVmTQOibtoOflIaDb2d72pc9lAixW_T_SCKGf0z1jBwimq4ZSSL6QVf-7PQ42AJRXXLW8Zzo4YsY9D9653CFHI1fCypATmZneUOYLENEdEdBcX4dmkLT_b8tXX-SykBBLsvu/s400/28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653858999639327730" border="0" /></a>I also don’t think there’s been a better closing scene/song match-up since <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The Breakfast Club”</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Dogville”.</span> Like so many wounded heroes in westerns riding off into the sunset, it’s easy to imagine Gosling’s driver, mouthing the words<span style="font-style: italic;"> “real human being”</span> to himself while his guts are literally spilling out all over the upholstery, until he becomes just another set of tail and headlights amongst 100,000 neon streets streaking their way across the blacktop into eternity. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRodWoaivgddYbDcRHqo_mkt_AjRKGxFIJvYkeRqpZKxPiDQMyINXPZffNtQ6nBUde9bTNk0n7ZTgVwm3mAmE6lo_zz3fvYbUcqKD34GHrY7mkh8CzT0mxrQNkcYDWGu4ZT7zLnA0B6fL/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRodWoaivgddYbDcRHqo_mkt_AjRKGxFIJvYkeRqpZKxPiDQMyINXPZffNtQ6nBUde9bTNk0n7ZTgVwm3mAmE6lo_zz3fvYbUcqKD34GHrY7mkh8CzT0mxrQNkcYDWGu4ZT7zLnA0B6fL/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653855935995066418" border="0" /></a>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-28323617505914245322011-08-22T17:07:00.000-07:002011-08-23T13:27:54.040-07:00Nostalgia's Revenge<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Super 8(2011)</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsewqiv64WNrSmDVF3cpGyR4hlRSJLavXPS1P6shIHl3YZU-QtcsWXj05YfKbJEcUAzdMyfDfUGepSjRlY_WbBCjdnOWH834W2_FMhypI8T28podIlefnRvqzB5sOHSx3h-BqYs1R52DiV/s1600/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsewqiv64WNrSmDVF3cpGyR4hlRSJLavXPS1P6shIHl3YZU-QtcsWXj05YfKbJEcUAzdMyfDfUGepSjRlY_WbBCjdnOWH834W2_FMhypI8T28podIlefnRvqzB5sOHSx3h-BqYs1R52DiV/s400/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643844217691569586" border="0" /></a>Directed By J. J. Abrams</span>
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<br /><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style="">The zombie film the kids were making before the train blew up had more going for it than </span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style="">anything that actually happens in<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "Super 8". </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubgGk1AVguQCSjJdPQYILIHHFRfjNBUBDpZFLkMiFMp7ntZ9jOkhPvpOpAVSjryrIOsTIbTDLptfybESluzKbjX2gj2AZVfx7TCs94WWZIWxQxsbRtz-3EQH4oTt1FX5LdnM-O1fjJfmp/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubgGk1AVguQCSjJdPQYILIHHFRfjNBUBDpZFLkMiFMp7ntZ9jOkhPvpOpAVSjryrIOsTIbTDLptfybESluzKbjX2gj2AZVfx7TCs94WWZIWxQxsbRtz-3EQH4oTt1FX5LdnM-O1fjJfmp/s400/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643840352345621906" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Mars Attacks"</span> is retro sci-fi at full throttle, this film is a nostalgia trip for fans of classic <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Steven Spielberg </span>films. </span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbPe-vPSnY8nBv_ttebHCTlze5mf3nTx6B5TY7_b1Mt64EgQ00BVU3PAVLgd7ceG9nLABtEiDIjnxxSoTat8rg_JGfizNp_8_s9fLc5ed8gEoUe8iZg-62B1azM2F3RvhxzPZ8-HWCPDf/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbPe-vPSnY8nBv_ttebHCTlze5mf3nTx6B5TY7_b1Mt64EgQ00BVU3PAVLgd7ceG9nLABtEiDIjnxxSoTat8rg_JGfizNp_8_s9fLc5ed8gEoUe8iZg-62B1azM2F3RvhxzPZ8-HWCPDf/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643839331357601922" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"You've gotta put that scene in, so that later on the audience cares who get's eaten" </span>a young director says to his crew, a lame brained excuse for the useless funeral prologue, melancholy lead and his forced star-crossed puppy wuv. </span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHy3Qe9SsWtxNC62HgPhVqeaPMF4KG12s2Xrrg5x_0_h_M4NBVKpvFpCpcIfZuQBqQIZ1Gpz-QcJIEPiTfMoWa-jJdvpWLAlOWUbDIMlk0ATr47Ij_L9A0Qc7uOYfmxwePGtUoFw3cX-n/s1600/14..png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHy3Qe9SsWtxNC62HgPhVqeaPMF4KG12s2Xrrg5x_0_h_M4NBVKpvFpCpcIfZuQBqQIZ1Gpz-QcJIEPiTfMoWa-jJdvpWLAlOWUbDIMlk0ATr47Ij_L9A0Qc7uOYfmxwePGtUoFw3cX-n/s400/14..png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643840013737989266" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style="">When we finally see what all the fuss is about it's a beast with a tediously predictable origin <span style="font-style: italic;">(like something a unimaginative ten year old would come up with)</span> and even worse it looks exactly like the beast from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cloverfield</span>, just smaller and less intimidating.</span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ff8UXCaj7cn92CefULGXdFQvDA8OcaB39-EyliksOm1XlH9dBNfvasS8BQYatP_CloDNz-ivaH7x4Jh8_hI0CozHNZt4GYl_OCIcKpelLZTlNHlhzSKctHoQPardqtyWmSiRrUtpJL7l/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ff8UXCaj7cn92CefULGXdFQvDA8OcaB39-EyliksOm1XlH9dBNfvasS8BQYatP_CloDNz-ivaH7x4Jh8_hI0CozHNZt4GYl_OCIcKpelLZTlNHlhzSKctHoQPardqtyWmSiRrUtpJL7l/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643839563266267474" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""> No effort seems to have gone into designing an original looking monster at all, which if there is a bare minimum I want out of a monster movie its just that.<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDAZPhIHaPHTjZLGWDMALnkoZIctlzxXShX8UFULAMGim9jT7_StQeTS3AZL1uRBIdqS9niHn0huXc-5kRt8vprG7Nvh0jT9JGP6ycdBJbAv1c_kep2dBtGUu6N-7L1C1usa7nqp2OG5p/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDAZPhIHaPHTjZLGWDMALnkoZIctlzxXShX8UFULAMGim9jT7_StQeTS3AZL1uRBIdqS9niHn0huXc-5kRt8vprG7Nvh0jT9JGP6ycdBJbAv1c_kep2dBtGUu6N-7L1C1usa7nqp2OG5p/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643839339850881922" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>I enjoyed most of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Lost", "Fringe"</span>, and liked <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Cloverfield",</span> but<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "Star Trek"</span> was awful and this even worse. </span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-KwdsLrjZWNjN-Qx1hcfpAI_4izL29uigsAoJ8H2YTsagJlkLE32BCzE2ph2YjGhj_vNktqTU3cGoJNtPfOFiQtvko94TgmQXcY28KgzSMF_R992tb7dGpTaLoJuIOndscFfvWAhMYLS/s1600/12.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-KwdsLrjZWNjN-Qx1hcfpAI_4izL29uigsAoJ8H2YTsagJlkLE32BCzE2ph2YjGhj_vNktqTU3cGoJNtPfOFiQtvko94TgmQXcY28KgzSMF_R992tb7dGpTaLoJuIOndscFfvWAhMYLS/s400/12.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643840008254664162" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style="">The kids were lame except for the little pyro, the camaraderie and chemistry of kid team-ups like <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Monster Squad"</span>, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Goonies",</span> and to a lesser extent <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Robert Rodriguez</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">'s </span>wonky but still unique,<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "Spy Kids" </span>series, is absent here, and the dead parent drama that is supposed to connect all the dramatic plots together, rings hollow and cloying like the even flatter and blander<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "Monsters"</span>.<span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdPbFZD67-3pINpWkux72LLy2kLNI-ItQVDBJcdw829eDJn_PoTlGEIse1dncXdKvolVjfSPoBgLz6XBGnuooNFuf8-nfqWwgsW3iEnIp0s_wFbfrOYXUvls8BgmaM9xdXvKoXC29ptBJ/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQIihNY35TJ0Zva3soDE6Xdr1io2eXXxPjkk8i7PQE0Ah764E6eyIcs3w0pytVnciMiqSbLPOiwrJKma8rZ_vlDs8e_xyvormLHkVgjBkS61SAz0amW08kdqHRwpjMdZ9eOPWPOT4YO9_/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643839568398721410" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style="">If you've forgotten what a good monster movie for the whole family can be re-watch <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Host". </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyzRF7tcIfyjDMlhX69HNHBYUN88hJH-OCI2Zvf6uT72P_G83v7wesOJtAd6Z1mgFNq2pC996BTGTkoweAzRLZI3v3viuQuCOtMMykn9FzyPQ7j55z8YorwqHuOnnDaErTLF1d7wGIu91/s1600/15.jpg"><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><span class="fb_protected_wrapper"><span><span id="app2558160538_extraReview824052842_771041011More" style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgDMi0fI1-2cSv_hP2Eqhz73M86t1urdlEJ0-tEVtC3oy0Rhx13QDLui77dHSgjDAQ63L6I_o-Mp8EH8DUhZ_ILZ6V4Nh8SMu9GayNgiR13HS4iuu9FXwB1mDDVR9LAOvPAix2wkNuHPe/s1600/20.jpg">
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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4w87sat2R-5w_1XPhqCRZ5Dik67rYNTQBwQv8h9OUjj6hW0nX9qQPh6FBr0UEN4aOik95MAOKaud5tdLeIz21_o07F3d1fIY-ZivpR7srBCrz2_B6DqBIbPdK-M3R7QFs2p66W0-E7Td/s400/12..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643839999430841922" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-355589382182602422011-08-22T16:19:00.000-07:002011-08-22T21:50:29.351-07:00War Horse<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">13 Assassins(2010)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-T9pXDFE5_NxNhs4HQU9Ge4W10Hn1GwPHBM0UorpG8axBG3ykMJCxoyEyekQLb-Zk-F975lsGENAPBqPV3cHeOS4LzrQskO4DarZ6If029-6ptJ3JMi7kFwskN7q2oDfgSkdanDE0kI8/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-T9pXDFE5_NxNhs4HQU9Ge4W10Hn1GwPHBM0UorpG8axBG3ykMJCxoyEyekQLb-Zk-F975lsGENAPBqPV3cHeOS4LzrQskO4DarZ6If029-6ptJ3JMi7kFwskN7q2oDfgSkdanDE0kI8/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643828768823931346" border="0" /></a></span>Directed By Takashi Miike</span>
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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxa4cqeEY1-39u0gzthfeuvBTI9Wk8FGJAh-ddOzN9pOdTgNWGz_ZcNyV4mcVBHjeNoR4RbHzKXhhRMgyyeuMKbp7o_hyphenhyphenkI-f975-RZgoBk_l08JewHrh8dbIKhwnJseuZTVa8ATGhXvcZ/s400/002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620911786001838914" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Directed By Terrence <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Malick</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpS_4TO60FYnu1tbWhvIyUMT_b7E6vwme4mgCf9Qdr07upw4R6D6gMvHN8ZNGWXBTRIh52UXd1n_o_-x9JMSINtodoRQeZqgZlScTqRg5yXEL3bTk88H37OC5SmNRnf3T0Dxq7PLlIFAh2/s1600/001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; 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font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI7M-D7HU4aHqDr950_QOoRh0yUFT-k6ExYyTNk9jvXBRYj_uCNcj1xr4d9Mj6dRINd4oxIPQ8UiyHHnikuFGU7WGpdpsqgjy3PfwD4UUZSakMkqH1SHc6RRzE_Khl1d5_EYh9KmTYeV4/s1600/f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI7M-D7HU4aHqDr950_QOoRh0yUFT-k6ExYyTNk9jvXBRYj_uCNcj1xr4d9Mj6dRINd4oxIPQ8UiyHHnikuFGU7WGpdpsqgjy3PfwD4UUZSakMkqH1SHc6RRzE_Khl1d5_EYh9KmTYeV4/s400/f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620914912784038370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdHYmdn-p0FnZ11DpG-v4bcHUI193dktgS9mIAgp8o-XWjzHuV9N2o1hGU4wi2MFAMgSXnBMrMc14z8AObZAvYfuiuVNJ9uO81EX8l_wFMZFVjhd6DTcHMuWWwnFxwG7UZpA2NmdgzIRO/s1600/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdHYmdn-p0FnZ11DpG-v4bcHUI193dktgS9mIAgp8o-XWjzHuV9N2o1hGU4wi2MFAMgSXnBMrMc14z8AObZAvYfuiuVNJ9uO81EX8l_wFMZFVjhd6DTcHMuWWwnFxwG7UZpA2NmdgzIRO/s400/26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825508162253650" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Tree Of Life</span>" </span>is the latest poetry reading and montage from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Terrence <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Malick</span></span>, a filmmaker known for his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">reclusiveness</span>, large gaps of time between films, and love of interior monologue voice over narration. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHEJZS6ZdvK3ltonqwvFNL7e2ynVLaO0y3mRpMWqa22DPiDLk2y8XtD-ZPRyh18vfSD25XYfiRZeOg0yRWmWg_cjK9JGrr1Q-m79o8YB-K3xtujlCxJoi_6fI0tMbdCOzNkqtCgzpahjM/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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font-style: italic;">Fellini’s 8 ½.</span> <span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSH96O5MdYWJbgREK7qFoyaXCo9G7ZbLZAujgPoGrQy7X6Jkn8SAXDP3VW_zbRHOFbYEudw3WNb9hcI4FqDiswlkVsHtdte1GPIH9ZpUm9pj5IbqGuB5TM7bdh2FDeVS8yPdtw4ymEhkqS/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSH96O5MdYWJbgREK7qFoyaXCo9G7ZbLZAujgPoGrQy7X6Jkn8SAXDP3VW_zbRHOFbYEudw3WNb9hcI4FqDiswlkVsHtdte1GPIH9ZpUm9pj5IbqGuB5TM7bdh2FDeVS8yPdtw4ymEhkqS/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810564323318050" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> In my opinion <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Malick</span> had worked himself into a creative corner with his last film <span style="font-weight: bold;">“A New World”</span> which added the <span style="font-style: italic;">“twist”</span> of shifting to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pocahontas’s</span> perspective half-way through but otherwise used the same formula that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Malick</span> had used in his three previous films of voice over and carefully choreographed nature photography. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHbwMr3kuOyWxCa_wSvnEB4cCFLMVZ85cGKAICwvYVL7S3QW_taOR4-yz3ZhZl0iauBKwSQJHKCyYg7rDQf0PLQVeR_roAD8EE_CxAGPsS-t4vJ6W3udmpU1txnLAeomnSFpXjH3D5CyM/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHbwMr3kuOyWxCa_wSvnEB4cCFLMVZ85cGKAICwvYVL7S3QW_taOR4-yz3ZhZl0iauBKwSQJHKCyYg7rDQf0PLQVeR_roAD8EE_CxAGPsS-t4vJ6W3udmpU1txnLAeomnSFpXjH3D5CyM/s400/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620823574980146130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“The Tree Of Life”</span> also shares these characteristics but makes them more central than ever before. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22o5GEKXxhoiXotC2JVnZXS_7lIeLHAzjwadNqDjl87KkxEzHuCD3aQPYbiMMIIcS-lCv0ZQATf6pos2Pfv8v28YQSTr-PT3OGtwkqRT-IsXwsZ4hxv1p-xxUkS8hlp_ioQSGpiFT3TOc/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22o5GEKXxhoiXotC2JVnZXS_7lIeLHAzjwadNqDjl87KkxEzHuCD3aQPYbiMMIIcS-lCv0ZQATf6pos2Pfv8v28YQSTr-PT3OGtwkqRT-IsXwsZ4hxv1p-xxUkS8hlp_ioQSGpiFT3TOc/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620824319952942130" border="0" /></a>For the first thirty to forty minutes of the film <span style="font-style: italic;">(its hard to keep track of time in a film as dense as this) </span>it’s easy to wonder if a conventional dialogue driven drama will ever begin to emerge. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ89iuwZGygR0ZDsMtg_nyU9O9cQ2ZsKsIHV0hbAWyceyv92PTJIliVNjFSdPyqAGfsQ03CQKk-gEtY70cuwAqYT7q_Bml8Y2g3lakkHS_OXxOQa8VMQ4iPhk7CeEqaRJAnXbatPmieTN8/s1600/2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ89iuwZGygR0ZDsMtg_nyU9O9cQ2ZsKsIHV0hbAWyceyv92PTJIliVNjFSdPyqAGfsQ03CQKk-gEtY70cuwAqYT7q_Bml8Y2g3lakkHS_OXxOQa8VMQ4iPhk7CeEqaRJAnXbatPmieTN8/s400/2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810550230445890" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Once our main character Jack reaches around ten the film becomes a slightly more lucid coming of age story. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFG-TGNdjNthAXHh2wE_Q8YGqZ5ZqPV_v6ENsmCxbiPZanWT4qLqantofP7A1ZgybTmoxs1mxhPWAzstFk68NIDmpf9_YBtrskgxzcNni5gfch7H-_POsx5ddsQTTh7J6om8xEnDxdIMKh/s1600/4.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFG-TGNdjNthAXHh2wE_Q8YGqZ5ZqPV_v6ENsmCxbiPZanWT4qLqantofP7A1ZgybTmoxs1mxhPWAzstFk68NIDmpf9_YBtrskgxzcNni5gfch7H-_POsx5ddsQTTh7J6om8xEnDxdIMKh/s400/4.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810949721217394" border="0" /></a>The conflicts are still largely internal though, the boy wrestling with <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“the way of nature and the way of grace”</span> epitomized by his relationship with his terrifying/awe inspiring father and loving/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">naïve</span> mother.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizpMjxx2SzHE-Ha6is8uHDrN0HxYORERo0iz9mv0YH7PQBBK4aCT9xLH9uV-eY0pG9TD7i_LmZrTPJtX_0kL9sVdHXVewNuHg0pFlBQZ-KG6m3tVU3FMlc2E3N054_XlUhIqA1ADTFHXY/s1600/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizpMjxx2SzHE-Ha6is8uHDrN0HxYORERo0iz9mv0YH7PQBBK4aCT9xLH9uV-eY0pG9TD7i_LmZrTPJtX_0kL9sVdHXVewNuHg0pFlBQZ-KG6m3tVU3FMlc2E3N054_XlUhIqA1ADTFHXY/s400/27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825511929816930" border="0" /></a> Much of the beauty and majesty of the opening minutes which expertly combine a<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Herzog</span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">ian</span> eye for nature at its most surreal and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Kubrick </span>at his most bombastic and operatic, are held in sharp contrast with the limited world of the boy’s physical life largely consisting of a house, some surrounding woods and fields, and the all consuming tension created by the presence of his father. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2_C4MkCspbRX-fpgwThKkrNNOkxO6N7lGmMYcGtUONDebGpMteUnISt6xZ44XszYuQXC0v5lJxlaW5Qy7tztWfJWsV-H_f52QVU1GFE9yOv1kZWno8FDMDqN6b1_8_fVPQK8rxlfNZ74/s1600/31.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2_C4MkCspbRX-fpgwThKkrNNOkxO6N7lGmMYcGtUONDebGpMteUnISt6xZ44XszYuQXC0v5lJxlaW5Qy7tztWfJWsV-H_f52QVU1GFE9yOv1kZWno8FDMDqN6b1_8_fVPQK8rxlfNZ74/s400/31.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831248101766162" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This oedipal conflict <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span style="font-style: italic;">son love mommy/pleasure but resents daddy for placing limitations on these and behavior or typical for the time good cop bad cop parenting structure</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">)</span> sandwiched between kaleidoscopic imagery, constantly moving (<span style="font-style: italic;">panning, </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">dollying</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, craning, but not shaky hand-held</span>) camera work, and some of the most kinetic editing, reminded me instantly of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Gaspar Noe’s </span>much maligned and personally beloved <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Enter The Void” </span>which is for better or worse kissing cousins with <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The Tree Of Life”.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg7hu14qs17HHHRZO3d8wU8DHuHC_xNCyFuaVStvCChFkN7CvxHoraJ1tMxmVd4dJR6x59MxfmxUCHZeq3TF9miwbtlM4_mChbpEGj8rez91UoDDDasZBpLDULBX2K55Qg2c5puA9ZCQb/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg7hu14qs17HHHRZO3d8wU8DHuHC_xNCyFuaVStvCChFkN7CvxHoraJ1tMxmVd4dJR6x59MxfmxUCHZeq3TF9miwbtlM4_mChbpEGj8rez91UoDDDasZBpLDULBX2K55Qg2c5puA9ZCQb/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810955352796722" border="0" /></a> If <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“The Tree Of Life”</span> is a prayer to all of creation, then <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Enter the Void”</span> is a hedonistic joy ride to oblivion, at opposite poles of experience the films are remarkably similar. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0aHHJr-P0bFgFrNJBsaAkswrxuI3OfkhlzSeLD723ozKcLiSksyhvNjDiX7t6qTf12BHM9zFBr1yyizJSJ8_D13PxQpTRyPV1olAhgv5h7KVyDcQUyPyB90JiLx1gOvsb7QmgqGlKQWz/s1600/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0aHHJr-P0bFgFrNJBsaAkswrxuI3OfkhlzSeLD723ozKcLiSksyhvNjDiX7t6qTf12BHM9zFBr1yyizJSJ8_D13PxQpTRyPV1olAhgv5h7KVyDcQUyPyB90JiLx1gOvsb7QmgqGlKQWz/s400/21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825180507488210" border="0" /></a>The recent equally mystical, equally impressive, and equally under-understood <span style="font-style: italic;">(though much more subdued)</span>, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Uncle <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Boonme</span> Who Can Recall His Past Lives”</span> falling somewhere between the two, and forming a spiritual trinity, much like the symbolic characters of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Tree Of Life”. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgQec_nNmflC882p-FqVaOy0gwoIHarhSMGtjvPQPqKO8ub3LKRDE0dMJxVr9p5G5RimMtYZoUUKZWxsSdJlrwvFS4e7WkV0WmteCZUmclq2haV7nT42T4zDCuytf5gyIv4quxicY5BAF/s1600/3.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgQec_nNmflC882p-FqVaOy0gwoIHarhSMGtjvPQPqKO8ub3LKRDE0dMJxVr9p5G5RimMtYZoUUKZWxsSdJlrwvFS4e7WkV0WmteCZUmclq2haV7nT42T4zDCuytf5gyIv4quxicY5BAF/s400/3.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810557950324322" border="0" /></a>It may be helpful to think of the characters are concepts rather than people,<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "The Tree Of Life" </span>or <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Sephirot</span> </span>(<span style="font-style: italic;">not that the film adheres to this in anything other than name only, like </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Enter The Voids</span><span style="font-style: italic;">" appropriation of a Tibetan moniker</span>) after all, are the varieties of emanations of God in the physical and immaterial planes in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Kaballah</span></span>, not a literal tree. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBhdk6i4WzxynkwnFUmTWm-NNlQBRTpd04bODzAFTxPm85zE9a1JRssmSNR4N1z4ph286voANuj-NV8SUUxJO2y21FDf1FWV5D5dGXe_kC2JORJ_ORd1VaIGpf70Uj25IYgLeR7BNgvwf/s1600/54.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBhdk6i4WzxynkwnFUmTWm-NNlQBRTpd04bODzAFTxPm85zE9a1JRssmSNR4N1z4ph286voANuj-NV8SUUxJO2y21FDf1FWV5D5dGXe_kC2JORJ_ORd1VaIGpf70Uj25IYgLeR7BNgvwf/s400/54.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831714237808898" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The symbolic trinity of the film is not mother, father, son and nor is it the three sons themselves, but mother, father, brother. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus6O5IFgBRyqME47x-8KJ_WcgfNkbPkQWhQpj4RN4Ft9IuPCdpHhPD7n0LPDmUduBeJbVSB6qedkiEP5qzYLjsbJFP_Kdm3Z6A1J7ikS9M4i1SwlYdb1-2I_zoBE6EEXaSVt7GJG2gzns/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus6O5IFgBRyqME47x-8KJ_WcgfNkbPkQWhQpj4RN4Ft9IuPCdpHhPD7n0LPDmUduBeJbVSB6qedkiEP5qzYLjsbJFP_Kdm3Z6A1J7ikS9M4i1SwlYdb1-2I_zoBE6EEXaSVt7GJG2gzns/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620810974957943186" border="0" /></a>Though were told the fate of one of the brothers in the film, it’s not simply his end that makes him significant, it’s that his mere existence acted as a reminder for Jack that besides the mother and father<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “wrestling within me, always wailing...”</span> there are also other people in the world, people that he could in turn be a source of cruelty or kindness. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8frMbqBuEdkGBzUo2RuaHr4upOdMG8bfD4kgqGZEbRpuMaL6hdY6f4LUECI2snKXrfx-Yuc42NUseteMTucaMdGjXup2woFPZJm8rnSdmZ_ZdIHXdj4WdWwOUaM_EwYznlorn10aaj4dU/s1600/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8frMbqBuEdkGBzUo2RuaHr4upOdMG8bfD4kgqGZEbRpuMaL6hdY6f4LUECI2snKXrfx-Yuc42NUseteMTucaMdGjXup2woFPZJm8rnSdmZ_ZdIHXdj4WdWwOUaM_EwYznlorn10aaj4dU/s400/22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825189865719714" border="0" /></a>Brother in the genial sense I think we can take to mean as Brother in the universal or spiritual sense, meaning all people<span style="font-style: italic;"> (agape)</span>. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8STJDWOKTJFu5oOLSwW9poaW0wyeYwVnGSK_98aDwQ42DI-frtOZ-SN7TwHnTD4onHum68Q9RLHVGc-E1qd_PNrnWEMXRDK4bog4BISKwz4PbNyPSYtqQVFKFT0NK7jnj5sZwIWcf7Mz1/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8STJDWOKTJFu5oOLSwW9poaW0wyeYwVnGSK_98aDwQ42DI-frtOZ-SN7TwHnTD4onHum68Q9RLHVGc-E1qd_PNrnWEMXRDK4bog4BISKwz4PbNyPSYtqQVFKFT0NK7jnj5sZwIWcf7Mz1/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620811371154474770" border="0" /></a>The voice over narrations of both the mother and father are directed at Jack, but it’s important to note that the Jack's reflections seem almost always directed to God.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRizLDbBPfHOTjGnrplrcPgJQqhgHh_Nqao69G5h8KHQDeGRsIq4pbLl1FaiwJLH4s4PH_hAvy1fjA2fWc921fJ5znyHjVeT17TL_izuwW2ds9n5kXlwgw18w-Yg4hV5VhJHB-l1xPOWjz/s1600/11.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRizLDbBPfHOTjGnrplrcPgJQqhgHh_Nqao69G5h8KHQDeGRsIq4pbLl1FaiwJLH4s4PH_hAvy1fjA2fWc921fJ5znyHjVeT17TL_izuwW2ds9n5kXlwgw18w-Yg4hV5VhJHB-l1xPOWjz/s400/11.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620824309295541618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"You let a boy drown today. You’ll let anything happen.”</span> to<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “Please kill him</span> [the father]. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Make him go away”</span> to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Before I knew who you were, I believed in you. I recognized you in the streams, the trees, etc”</span>. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFU8JrNdW8oPqEf_q1n5Ed7DR5H1kZySXssnB_eayPHLfbsu1qTf49oA93UvY0fXwl-90RBT1WvquBD6SK7GsDR_Jwv1Hx817AMfvNcDXs3jsxk-4R9gzdVNZgLPkqW8DHyA1DySbfSUn3/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFU8JrNdW8oPqEf_q1n5Ed7DR5H1kZySXssnB_eayPHLfbsu1qTf49oA93UvY0fXwl-90RBT1WvquBD6SK7GsDR_Jwv1Hx817AMfvNcDXs3jsxk-4R9gzdVNZgLPkqW8DHyA1DySbfSUn3/s400/15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620823585940578162" border="0" /></a>The beach scene one might be tempted to see as an afterlife, and I flirted with that idea for a moment, but dismissed the thought because <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">:SPOILER::</span> the brother is the same age he was when Jack moved out of the house, not the age he was when he died at 19. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsDoa5ntLkIGg6hidi4qXu-inDHsYoQ3Prs0H0MdBrv1FUpAs2DMqFEkfZT6iZI0mA8x0YYj31tozVNKbAn2NJ3o_mxiznklaohq14W8WCXc9RCt7A2F35evkwh7A80k7UV7pSGVJie_S/s1600/29.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsDoa5ntLkIGg6hidi4qXu-inDHsYoQ3Prs0H0MdBrv1FUpAs2DMqFEkfZT6iZI0mA8x0YYj31tozVNKbAn2NJ3o_mxiznklaohq14W8WCXc9RCt7A2F35evkwh7A80k7UV7pSGVJie_S/s400/29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831241828116386" border="0" /></a>The youngest of the three brothers is also there frozen in time as a child. If this is an afterlife shot, then it’s of a completely subjective afterlife where loved ones appear only in forms which are most emotionally relevant to those observing them and not as they would see themselves. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9Db5tKNEfi0jjzT0MDx_crsKbNsp6P1aQI7vo2vZ5P44zCB8ZhSFJ_YtsVZFQ6WtxaTfpN6ePxz38VK5d_kk9paEw1L4SY7G771xWmdlejuiaBSTQH-wcAdmBfegtRsI5m5FaBg3qRDC/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9Db5tKNEfi0jjzT0MDx_crsKbNsp6P1aQI7vo2vZ5P44zCB8ZhSFJ_YtsVZFQ6WtxaTfpN6ePxz38VK5d_kk9paEw1L4SY7G771xWmdlejuiaBSTQH-wcAdmBfegtRsI5m5FaBg3qRDC/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620811408681847730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“You’re my child and you’ll always be my child”</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> taken to an extreme.<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8m7EKTWTdwdLGWhYZGqb7faQrEluRUteExOSvy8b9UrPaFOdQ113lHHLdC1kKSJ4jN-RF5W6f6moLaDgkyrcl-Wb7L-HRBjnO12QFY3-HnQ6AtVFDKEYIHVU2ylqzRdTsji4YkGdwQ-oY/s1600/003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8m7EKTWTdwdLGWhYZGqb7faQrEluRUteExOSvy8b9UrPaFOdQ113lHHLdC1kKSJ4jN-RF5W6f6moLaDgkyrcl-Wb7L-HRBjnO12QFY3-HnQ6AtVFDKEYIHVU2ylqzRdTsji4YkGdwQ-oY/s400/003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620911791340298850" border="0" /></a></span></span></span> That’s not Heaven folks, that’s <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Solaris”. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLSzKzqFmZGPKPZQ3UludXIBzUnaovB2TFXHolOnJiEEfMyLx329e7IMDCt75n9LbGZnDUgVDLMOn2t5M3tRNv-bnHDKjGk1Hd12BkIfvgleWI8SWLnWUcJgX62UwzukENlFwAXY9J2Pz/s1600/35.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLSzKzqFmZGPKPZQ3UludXIBzUnaovB2TFXHolOnJiEEfMyLx329e7IMDCt75n9LbGZnDUgVDLMOn2t5M3tRNv-bnHDKjGk1Hd12BkIfvgleWI8SWLnWUcJgX62UwzukENlFwAXY9J2Pz/s400/35.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831708939257026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“We don’t want other worlds, we only want a mirror”.</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">::SPOILEROVER::<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIaOygjqJF_E5QbEFQ1OhfaH4sxgKqoyPZgQ-0iFhJxqXWTCKqDZyw6BOfx4o_L3HZ2hJ12_0nBCIa2Rjbu3zpGTPCScRfkCkWMR56jhijeY347WeUOcOaErtIpde1nvSaHOnIwY8Fp3y1/s1600/36.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIaOygjqJF_E5QbEFQ1OhfaH4sxgKqoyPZgQ-0iFhJxqXWTCKqDZyw6BOfx4o_L3HZ2hJ12_0nBCIa2Rjbu3zpGTPCScRfkCkWMR56jhijeY347WeUOcOaErtIpde1nvSaHOnIwY8Fp3y1/s400/36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620832265382148610" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Regardless of where Malick draws his metaphysical lines, the resounding spiritual cry of the film is obvious. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjesA7mxzqMbUaJc4MEMUIh7nr455VV4ijLFBBaGp4mlziJbgRwLVFuYCfuqQC4GJT4-blYEK1DJaJJaXs60B5DrHxM6PHegbaBubBRLF1_WqdXXfT9wTSyDM5lbprFITkD7sCSIvFKOhbe/s1600/28.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjesA7mxzqMbUaJc4MEMUIh7nr455VV4ijLFBBaGp4mlziJbgRwLVFuYCfuqQC4GJT4-blYEK1DJaJJaXs60B5DrHxM6PHegbaBubBRLF1_WqdXXfT9wTSyDM5lbprFITkD7sCSIvFKOhbe/s400/28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825510955521346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Alain Resnais’</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Mon Oncle D’amerique” </span>examined the lives of three people from birth into adulthood through the eyes of evolutionary behaviorist and philosopher<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Henri Laborit. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtQ_UDUYg9aywKgK7yj6PTT088rKX42ev_wK7nW9SlLeCDgn27VH7DzEFvwkxWXSmjJcRD4pBjqMqWbf97sJqK-X1If1HMrJn29Wq9xYAQy5ykVxo9mkqqPDfB6ngbMFUorG937zenszR/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtQ_UDUYg9aywKgK7yj6PTT088rKX42ev_wK7nW9SlLeCDgn27VH7DzEFvwkxWXSmjJcRD4pBjqMqWbf97sJqK-X1If1HMrJn29Wq9xYAQy5ykVxo9mkqqPDfB6ngbMFUorG937zenszR/s400/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620824316032627986" border="0" /></a>In that film like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Tree Of Life”</span> we observe human life cycles next to animal and geological ones in a free flowing montage. <span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpv5bltuWwQ8QMdyfI0-5gGB6YcnZPW4r1Wj8PxXZJTcI-5drq9oN4OwzSarAHeHm2vXxV8faw0qyhllQXuCtVNQygG1tWunIOpCEsTNlnfiRD5bhookOE4lvK8-1gJWgcSn_clgAs0FYQ/s1600/hh.jpg"><br /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJm1EhCpetpzZL3eDyuQTW-yMjc2o1tg9VWdkGwsaIjrxyH-AnZsrEdBnaDxcXV0U5Io2rQjdDMxH57mNkRGFp72Zbh4VI9SBTd50Keeijh8KJMl5uAf-yigtpNTjxYrAIOTXhMDZp7pG/s1600/33.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJm1EhCpetpzZL3eDyuQTW-yMjc2o1tg9VWdkGwsaIjrxyH-AnZsrEdBnaDxcXV0U5Io2rQjdDMxH57mNkRGFp72Zbh4VI9SBTd50Keeijh8KJMl5uAf-yigtpNTjxYrAIOTXhMDZp7pG/s400/33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831259944026050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMXq1W2i07v0NBybFO4fEca0EOMpgCCqJKMIFXbOXre9V4Cjdyi_cIc8pGXT53CO8grbqIhKAra6ntOIhU73IXCDSbedABSQOuX41MJ5pAw7jOUGXnSnL3pBDzlwWA5pfQUAjLFZaHlpR/s1600/h.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMXq1W2i07v0NBybFO4fEca0EOMpgCCqJKMIFXbOXre9V4Cjdyi_cIc8pGXT53CO8grbqIhKAra6ntOIhU73IXCDSbedABSQOuX41MJ5pAw7jOUGXnSnL3pBDzlwWA5pfQUAjLFZaHlpR/s400/h.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620914744857875666" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Indeed that film also features extensive voice-over narration. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkbv7qzAFeXCDXP_Q-WjtTuZ9uxHqnJysKgyAswNwxelkoJLH1Lb8Z0jLvYWS83SPyJvmJotTIP2MpfFbIcer0vqhA3vNFdP-L1hBF-crIqBf8vUXx2IfgBd4C7qsd_bS6uydNQCcmv6c/s1600/hhhh.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkbv7qzAFeXCDXP_Q-WjtTuZ9uxHqnJysKgyAswNwxelkoJLH1Lb8Z0jLvYWS83SPyJvmJotTIP2MpfFbIcer0vqhA3vNFdP-L1hBF-crIqBf8vUXx2IfgBd4C7qsd_bS6uydNQCcmv6c/s400/hhhh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620920996855489154" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>The ideas in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Tree Of Life”</span> are not new, in fact they are almost ancient in their simplicity. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpzwn-mgDakgVrNyITLhclndp5veXGsTknQ71sTfmQvMfYA-S7L5n1dpvU67wNKEod9ZYkbUOcyS-_1JG8zUjb_lhs3VyncLu6G2RCGscAm6pjKmCdxngzqfWa08fRp-oJTN1AQLAv1FRj/s1600/h.jpg"><br /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlwc_hBvTvpEfOTOiFv7Y7l7UnCzEK0nh_Hw3b6LlrMF03or5NM_v3yDrCsDSYAu1kbetfqrckrLQDVgYNq4-2ApqryF5_uQdYjlNRmA6iZGfx_fGRNQZlhoxtPIoFUGmu8_PK6xVY6YNf/s1600/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlwc_hBvTvpEfOTOiFv7Y7l7UnCzEK0nh_Hw3b6LlrMF03or5NM_v3yDrCsDSYAu1kbetfqrckrLQDVgYNq4-2ApqryF5_uQdYjlNRmA6iZGfx_fGRNQZlhoxtPIoFUGmu8_PK6xVY6YNf/s400/20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620824329995072258" border="0" /></a></span>The question is of <span style="font-style: italic;">nature vs. nurture,</span> and the almost impossible task of disentangling one from the other, or trying to sort out or remember a particular moment, through a web of ephemeral memories and emotions are lifetime long<span style="font-style: italic;"> (and maybe longer)</span> of one being greater than the other. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwBE6l5J2tFinraqyO38uGqW2bblwxCrsjlu6ZsPGoTlFAChUWP9nLK9akEdm4YaKTSQf3FoLPYCEkd2Q7H8isswhyphenhyphendQHEXmk4SL9ef1jfx_dfKFZyn18OklSOv1Zcj5LLVbV1ge8Jols/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwBE6l5J2tFinraqyO38uGqW2bblwxCrsjlu6ZsPGoTlFAChUWP9nLK9akEdm4YaKTSQf3FoLPYCEkd2Q7H8isswhyphenhyphendQHEXmk4SL9ef1jfx_dfKFZyn18OklSOv1Zcj5LLVbV1ge8Jols/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620811368658770066" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"The Tree Of Life" </span>is as ambitious as films get in its cinematography, editing, structure, and content. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Q4jB3hIiTBGB_gPUVgetS7M3l4nqI9Xv84TV0ca1G-zGdUJ1zHLYPnnhURN1kTNpbhU0mb6Swk_M1Ozq9uSUEiRK89MtldSnfIMDCiNuJFf_B2mVyi2dsGOOyBBTcvGK5T3Wd-1HNKw0/s1600/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Q4jB3hIiTBGB_gPUVgetS7M3l4nqI9Xv84TV0ca1G-zGdUJ1zHLYPnnhURN1kTNpbhU0mb6Swk_M1Ozq9uSUEiRK89MtldSnfIMDCiNuJFf_B2mVyi2dsGOOyBBTcvGK5T3Wd-1HNKw0/s400/23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620825194117656546" border="0" /></a>The performances are good, but the editing never really settles down long enough for us to<span style="font-style: italic;"> “get to know”</span> the characters or too much of their personalities, and if you are among those for whom drama is the foundation stone of cinema <span style="font-style: italic;">(which is to my ears as arbitrary as saying costume design is the foundation stone of cinema</span>) than <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The Tree Of Life” </span>will probably seem like a dull dream of dinosaurs and baby boomer malaise. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2Q1A1KunfbXNxnvCsBDpVZ4qZqClgbejZyo6q-8xj24HEYXPzJBikHHBApltI4djvQm8yEnaASrfWbJYARLxquNi9Amq6WIB5NEq88gHSSoq43zgJqVl9saO1S6eqHXkTrLf3MkHH45A/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2Q1A1KunfbXNxnvCsBDpVZ4qZqClgbejZyo6q-8xj24HEYXPzJBikHHBApltI4djvQm8yEnaASrfWbJYARLxquNi9Amq6WIB5NEq88gHSSoq43zgJqVl9saO1S6eqHXkTrLf3MkHH45A/s400/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620823570930439538" border="0" /></a>For me precisely because the film does not lean to heavily on the domestic and inter-personal drama it opens itself up to doing the real business of cinema, which is visually eradicating those boundaries between internal and external perceptions, ideas, and emotions.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBoFCp8hSp87nnR2Onl_GA5IJN0kScSbcNn0wh82wQgFpK-5UOmTIAT2KJmiaSRa5MdBLeECF0XT9u9e-4-_XTJos-pon_aGAOci4liNTOrW5uR4mbKLclIMOj748jPoJyoROJyK9rA6IB/s1600/hh.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBoFCp8hSp87nnR2Onl_GA5IJN0kScSbcNn0wh82wQgFpK-5UOmTIAT2KJmiaSRa5MdBLeECF0XT9u9e-4-_XTJos-pon_aGAOci4liNTOrW5uR4mbKLclIMOj748jPoJyoROJyK9rA6IB/s400/hh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620917897595457650" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> If anything negative could fairly be said of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The Tree Of Life”</span>, one could make a case for it being, underneath the visual and auditory chutzpah, all too simple in its Oedipal, Biblical, or New Age expressions. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZzyOmlBnjTeeW5k0W7zWcJBl6dU1OVt5Yzip2gnAkXu0ZzeSc-5QsE8aO6Rru1WPTYFNNB1kRGeVTKOkMqIfgbsLVx6wWDTLlaXtwCY1qpQrzL8_56dq4PgckSDXMySonMz9KU6sIDIF/s1600/tree_of_life_21-650x350.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZzyOmlBnjTeeW5k0W7zWcJBl6dU1OVt5Yzip2gnAkXu0ZzeSc-5QsE8aO6Rru1WPTYFNNB1kRGeVTKOkMqIfgbsLVx6wWDTLlaXtwCY1qpQrzL8_56dq4PgckSDXMySonMz9KU6sIDIF/s400/tree_of_life_21-650x350.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620832515689456898" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Father</span> only seems to share his fears and the <span style="font-style: italic;">Mother</span> only her hopes, and we spend our longest time with the son as he contemplates the effects of <span style="font-style: italic;">“sin” (ei the possibility that his parents may be wrong, and if “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted”</span>). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlann6EGlycU7b4E9vhySxCwAUrOoTGC9h15T1ZcRrGg83xLASUS1fAtN4yG2u_BFQmACGCStLdC75ABz63zyshCy9CiEIDAKnXkjYrTtJsSBd-6J6BUCJiViUMmJFp0NZYEMnjzM6TpB/s1600/30.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlann6EGlycU7b4E9vhySxCwAUrOoTGC9h15T1ZcRrGg83xLASUS1fAtN4yG2u_BFQmACGCStLdC75ABz63zyshCy9CiEIDAKnXkjYrTtJsSBd-6J6BUCJiViUMmJFp0NZYEMnjzM6TpB/s400/30.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831242517757954" border="0" /></a>Malick goes to lengths to make us feel as small in the greater structures of the universe as the son feels as an infant looking at the titanic legs of his parents. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4CcVV1BrPj0dBqo5l7CoevHlJaIxZ0BNSxpC2Ig6CVtQtaebNAWvoB-0-VaTFw17oZ9k-e6M8_b1qHqKDbNWvXHX1FRAzMak14eqyCSVjqVkhFwl5RX7iL4woFX3rJVb-gHxx88JmRfn/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4CcVV1BrPj0dBqo5l7CoevHlJaIxZ0BNSxpC2Ig6CVtQtaebNAWvoB-0-VaTFw17oZ9k-e6M8_b1qHqKDbNWvXHX1FRAzMak14eqyCSVjqVkhFwl5RX7iL4woFX3rJVb-gHxx88JmRfn/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620811405819579538" border="0" /></a>Eventually this awe at the world, becomes, at least, in Malick's Americana inner conflict and anxiety, which either we transcend at the point of death <span style="font-style: italic;">(discussed above</span>) or we never stop reflecting on. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1bRg9Vjfzmqta1bnXtlQWmDq452imAz8WVfk0V2Xuj79kXO3zpj9QUJtV796m9S0m5tMWPkJSTer_bEVcyL_oYONneE9f8qfUDMJhwhhZeTQ7zC3CybdLS1gORk4iITcUMv0ztA4uLm7s/s1600/38.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1bRg9Vjfzmqta1bnXtlQWmDq452imAz8WVfk0V2Xuj79kXO3zpj9QUJtV796m9S0m5tMWPkJSTer_bEVcyL_oYONneE9f8qfUDMJhwhhZeTQ7zC3CybdLS1gORk4iITcUMv0ztA4uLm7s/s400/38.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620832240062272722" border="0" /></a>The last image in the film is a bridge rising out of a morning mist. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EjXHx8mjF_rYtsgvWH5dOuRVOakSUGOLx68urnc4RcP-ZxMgJcjaItkb2_m8rJLi-lb0BRMYwrqBfVAq3MyFgNXiN2GKI75AJ9W-YjhGnncXNpAoDtMJUVl8p7uO7JQiUVFhqxaPTI08/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EjXHx8mjF_rYtsgvWH5dOuRVOakSUGOLx68urnc4RcP-ZxMgJcjaItkb2_m8rJLi-lb0BRMYwrqBfVAq3MyFgNXiN2GKI75AJ9W-YjhGnncXNpAoDtMJUVl8p7uO7JQiUVFhqxaPTI08/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620823577030967202" border="0" /></a>Does a bridge represent travel itself or an eventual destination on the other side?<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitypFglmeKbtnlO0cSRnGcDUu_t40EjKeQH7WEoOUHYfimH5K2FYyD12MHmrZO7HxwQ_iFFxp4qHj-IE6V_O3b2GUD3OeAbPYLU-cSfe3U3GSOf2KfrgnJl19oIj9DULufx3BKWwTZvoe4/s1600/a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitypFglmeKbtnlO0cSRnGcDUu_t40EjKeQH7WEoOUHYfimH5K2FYyD12MHmrZO7HxwQ_iFFxp4qHj-IE6V_O3b2GUD3OeAbPYLU-cSfe3U3GSOf2KfrgnJl19oIj9DULufx3BKWwTZvoe4/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620914719295191282" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"The Tree Of Life</span>" is the most ambitious and accomplished American film I’ve seen since <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">David Lunch’s “Inland Empire”</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">PT Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood”. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_y8v7XWr5O43Tzcd7N3x00jE6H0s-RmR142gLkJ-XKVuwg3U5ROujjeBTle7XlYYV8rzv4ArPoFGZ7m25bEiu096NjTOcI1GQ3LeHgg-EtWiYgHjBInskLFcuDQ59F92UbUnOGSejRQ8w/s1600/40.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_y8v7XWr5O43Tzcd7N3x00jE6H0s-RmR142gLkJ-XKVuwg3U5ROujjeBTle7XlYYV8rzv4ArPoFGZ7m25bEiu096NjTOcI1GQ3LeHgg-EtWiYgHjBInskLFcuDQ59F92UbUnOGSejRQ8w/s400/40.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620831723028635010" border="0" /></a>This is the type of cinema that will endure and will provoke argument for years to come. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpCWBfQM4eiGmERIipU4kHQht5T1QdeMgE_XJS9097yufcAzyn9LchLLetq4u_31z81H4sNc7hHEJQ5zj5qfTnr-zAoOLkwW_dIDR3cHrekOiQNSG7-cygtdluLVnwSHcoj_Of5xbEmbU/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpCWBfQM4eiGmERIipU4kHQht5T1QdeMgE_XJS9097yufcAzyn9LchLLetq4u_31z81H4sNc7hHEJQ5zj5qfTnr-zAoOLkwW_dIDR3cHrekOiQNSG7-cygtdluLVnwSHcoj_Of5xbEmbU/s400/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620824315526005410" border="0" /></a>It deserves, begs, and screams from the fibers of its celluloid to be seen in a theater on a big screen. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONdSVNksf7gjLZGPo33V6U5F_AZuy8ZqJyGtjT_wV7WIBZDIj5Wl8P97vNJdRMxfjwOx512CCDDNishmgNm364Hi68uh8ERSfqEFgLhAKFPnOQSfmZX-NqwQZDP_QxB_EYFIbrH9mqwzF/s1600/b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONdSVNksf7gjLZGPo33V6U5F_AZuy8ZqJyGtjT_wV7WIBZDIj5Wl8P97vNJdRMxfjwOx512CCDDNishmgNm364Hi68uh8ERSfqEFgLhAKFPnOQSfmZX-NqwQZDP_QxB_EYFIbrH9mqwzF/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620914725546888962" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>If you’re going spend you’re hard earned money on seeing on film this year, then see <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Tree Of Life"</span>, it is genuine cinema, everything else so far this year, has just been big screen DVD. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbhgZggxxMAPX4PpQvSpMCJNYcOXiyY_KTMOf_0IkC7a8TemSXxzVsRUvckJe1Z8zV_dOdUJaPbbE6W3FtjebtCHSnhiKlhNKL984mbxojUBpN58_yskrLuZxrEYf3gayL3wbnvOvmXOe/s1600/39.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbhgZggxxMAPX4PpQvSpMCJNYcOXiyY_KTMOf_0IkC7a8TemSXxzVsRUvckJe1Z8zV_dOdUJaPbbE6W3FtjebtCHSnhiKlhNKL984mbxojUBpN58_yskrLuZxrEYf3gayL3wbnvOvmXOe/s400/39.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620832235600741826" border="0" /></a></p>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-84021331013458938752011-05-03T12:33:00.000-07:002011-06-21T15:54:23.565-07:00Cloudy Judgement<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thor(2011)</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KPBLoPxVX-83iEpWnG43oYS9987y9bAFdeyRxrrbVfwo2nqPot8ZbCGacemXO6siLfshiegemBrevFx6Ul1Gv2uQLbn3OCoE0JsAK_mW2K-Xpr7WC-e5Gabhim6U7GFroaKTfUmFtoAa/s1600/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KPBLoPxVX-83iEpWnG43oYS9987y9bAFdeyRxrrbVfwo2nqPot8ZbCGacemXO6siLfshiegemBrevFx6Ul1Gv2uQLbn3OCoE0JsAK_mW2K-Xpr7WC-e5Gabhim6U7GFroaKTfUmFtoAa/s400/21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614994590416233250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Directed By Kenneth Branagh</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT4EW0fwsgle0etzFVitQ0bnxISQScZDSPmWmBVCpOmeNvq1LNcx99ruQhVsTIf9Riv1X_-Xm7pzBZ6sByvl_fAfOkiiGHWHqKapgy2D7ziPP0olG2h52RWESGd7WSEYEoaL6BltFUyLpg/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT4EW0fwsgle0etzFVitQ0bnxISQScZDSPmWmBVCpOmeNvq1LNcx99ruQhVsTIf9Riv1X_-Xm7pzBZ6sByvl_fAfOkiiGHWHqKapgy2D7ziPP0olG2h52RWESGd7WSEYEoaL6BltFUyLpg/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979937711084194" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvWKdFQq5TvnjbkG9LLogWeEYodutcWgAkaxfwK85dB_b_MtADIMGmP7_0s8g9t5bRdvCKXkpzuTK5lW7WMrZiQ5Je4skl8bLepCr5kS4p3F3UzIGjWXvgkXhxDnGpQqM69b4P2YntPZc/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvWKdFQq5TvnjbkG9LLogWeEYodutcWgAkaxfwK85dB_b_MtADIMGmP7_0s8g9t5bRdvCKXkpzuTK5lW7WMrZiQ5Je4skl8bLepCr5kS4p3F3UzIGjWXvgkXhxDnGpQqM69b4P2YntPZc/s400/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979762268307250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Thor"</span> is a film based on a <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Marvel</span> superhero comic book, based loosely on Norse mythology, about the <span style="font-style: italic;">"God of thunder"</span> cast down from Asgard to our human world of the present. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55fKRJylm9K5CNiUyi8nBQz6H8bOvK60msoSCcyRsqpiNkPE84N_fhSojO_w4Y3tFGxw_ut1gwM8KnxvS4kkQgK9YLa5XMvVyt2yV2YvUdbm62vvnjAXnwmwKOZ-9tPhetB9kvEmGQD_2/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55fKRJylm9K5CNiUyi8nBQz6H8bOvK60msoSCcyRsqpiNkPE84N_fhSojO_w4Y3tFGxw_ut1gwM8KnxvS4kkQgK9YLa5XMvVyt2yV2YvUdbm62vvnjAXnwmwKOZ-9tPhetB9kvEmGQD_2/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979746624139010" border="0" /></a>Too much time is invested in this flimsy plot of political intrigues between Asgardians and Frost Giants, and the even more tiresome flash-romance of Thor and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Natalie Portman </span>(playing an astro-physicist studying "weather anomalies" and "Einstein-Rosen bridges".) <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBVdLGpKPI8I9u81nejCmfm2cT28TOPQkLC8R7zUDjQ5l9Tn88pilN6NykIJo3jOWeX_s99P4lbW4igBe0N9zmHwMjWQOwpW1roM2g_nIhPxXdKgC77DpedqCdtMasWkqHl9yWBgHLnTVh/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBVdLGpKPI8I9u81nejCmfm2cT28TOPQkLC8R7zUDjQ5l9Tn88pilN6NykIJo3jOWeX_s99P4lbW4igBe0N9zmHwMjWQOwpW1roM2g_nIhPxXdKgC77DpedqCdtMasWkqHl9yWBgHLnTVh/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979385920913554" border="0" /></a>Portman is awful by the way, her shocked utterance "oh-my-god" in this film I imagine will become a popular Internet soundbite or gif, akin to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Keanu Reeve's "I know Kung-fu".</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUa9dOawArtfeMHvv0eURxTil0MF4Gu4ypIfuhwfZyYPBzsfuwtBWVTFRTeP5CIR8ZQX2qNLDmUkBElf-RLsav3QpJE2HMbArrofn7rIAnowwbug8MAAkIssmpqVHqs8rJtaVGO-PUiCvy/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUa9dOawArtfeMHvv0eURxTil0MF4Gu4ypIfuhwfZyYPBzsfuwtBWVTFRTeP5CIR8ZQX2qNLDmUkBElf-RLsav3QpJE2HMbArrofn7rIAnowwbug8MAAkIssmpqVHqs8rJtaVGO-PUiCvy/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979755468944690" border="0" /></a>All this talking leaves precious little time for <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Thor"</span> in full super-hero regalia to be on-screen. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDsnJlt7qt6W2AZCW2XuEfKgX9EK_6rgCcGdwD9XkOwq8XyRqY3B0MfMm33y7ie-hed-3re43CnXcCEm3LNZIi-r8mRDt8JeXpd9WutwI7UQ-Ve6aEB99tqL6CgbfNaukmw3vsiSCSqvF/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDsnJlt7qt6W2AZCW2XuEfKgX9EK_6rgCcGdwD9XkOwq8XyRqY3B0MfMm33y7ie-hed-3re43CnXcCEm3LNZIi-r8mRDt8JeXpd9WutwI7UQ-Ve6aEB99tqL6CgbfNaukmw3vsiSCSqvF/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979948975035074" border="0" /></a>What makes most super-hero films a drag is that they take up too much time trying to find the drama and the realism in the characters at the expense of what made these types stories compelling.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNit1eh79rE40joIHxjCOJSPHIsoWQKOyOkr98agXgAiDtftdD8CDhPvH1Uo-fHjtr4hZXLgNBAAu7xtZW_ngIIZIBEPY46znicBhdM0BCHKr-hE-X6Qd7lUl6U0cegZI21oyoVc0_lP1/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNit1eh79rE40joIHxjCOJSPHIsoWQKOyOkr98agXgAiDtftdD8CDhPvH1Uo-fHjtr4hZXLgNBAAu7xtZW_ngIIZIBEPY46znicBhdM0BCHKr-hE-X6Qd7lUl6U0cegZI21oyoVc0_lP1/s400/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614980461738372930" border="0" /></a> The drama is flat, and the action is spread too thin to become kinetic or hypnotic, or whatever it would need to be to justify sitting through the non-special effects portions of the movie. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORKf7wQmoXpV5tMivqaE1DmTJiLJL0wt8uC1SPrWhGHtd4PRMYTUX0O9JTC4debrKP6GmdrNS28LIbSEd4K_0Ivvcd0WYeOMCGCeMeZ28zGJ1Payg8JRdurRcCw5gVWsFps9Rn8lmtaq2/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORKf7wQmoXpV5tMivqaE1DmTJiLJL0wt8uC1SPrWhGHtd4PRMYTUX0O9JTC4debrKP6GmdrNS28LIbSEd4K_0Ivvcd0WYeOMCGCeMeZ28zGJ1Payg8JRdurRcCw5gVWsFps9Rn8lmtaq2/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979381436457474" border="0" /></a>The costume and creature designs are especially bland, and look even worse against a desert small town background. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8xAuoL1_5jM_p6sZwP_RqcL-0N_Bf43S3pWa1mg6u5ZhGVXhxDHiengSLXW7U8rr8j0CBdxFDcBU6B3yLEnji7n6xsqJA66FphW4xdDR85JTSraq6KSMFjBb_D8hGjGmdTmt5KoSosgP/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8xAuoL1_5jM_p6sZwP_RqcL-0N_Bf43S3pWa1mg6u5ZhGVXhxDHiengSLXW7U8rr8j0CBdxFDcBU6B3yLEnji7n6xsqJA66FphW4xdDR85JTSraq6KSMFjBb_D8hGjGmdTmt5KoSosgP/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979375863586626" border="0" /></a>The frost giants look like blue versions of the evil Djin in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Wes </span>Craven's<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "</span>Wishmaster<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">", </span>and the other monster Thor faces is like a walking suit of armor that shoots fire from its eyes, basically yet another giant robot, but plainer and stiffer than usual. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKL5rteaEVtdZAA6ApnY2KAgc2tKEc3EWYveq88iMxH9VBUzGN0L8hFgVSehNSJndP7bXVxlNjKfbJcGFR-884GxFTa3kpOI457mf0HY-Us8-ALdws1JJKtne7dANWnk06ChQhTtv9sTK5/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKL5rteaEVtdZAA6ApnY2KAgc2tKEc3EWYveq88iMxH9VBUzGN0L8hFgVSehNSJndP7bXVxlNjKfbJcGFR-884GxFTa3kpOI457mf0HY-Us8-ALdws1JJKtne7dANWnk06ChQhTtv9sTK5/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979372574612290" border="0" /></a>And please, Dear Hollywood, stop changing the ethnicity's of classic characters for your adaptations, by which I am referring to the certain Asian and black Norse gods who appear in this feature. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZjSRx3qJBeNoxF4zw8q8GBbfkUh_LnfkVopWA5xBqdQJjZ9HK5j7B9z2kaSfNYnv2SSoeUnYEbyhyphenhyphenr9ZtqF-rck6PJwOnQLvxQmLwkzUPrSEeRBQBIH0oLL_SG2pxXQhrL0-Jqd0Q1HQ/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZjSRx3qJBeNoxF4zw8q8GBbfkUh_LnfkVopWA5xBqdQJjZ9HK5j7B9z2kaSfNYnv2SSoeUnYEbyhyphenhyphenr9ZtqF-rck6PJwOnQLvxQmLwkzUPrSEeRBQBIH0oLL_SG2pxXQhrL0-Jqd0Q1HQ/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979749773185362" border="0" /></a>If you really want to have non-white characters in sf/fantasy either invent some new ones (PLEASE!) or make use of those who already exist. Simply re-imagining minor or supporting white characters as non-white, only reaffirms that the racial place of non-whites is in minor and supporting roles.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOa0RXFthDxkro7yQWLuI0GhxC32tyK8mgM8p7nheTtiFD2Rjul75go7flbaQt2Zs7MlT35Cyc0_8U8lA1t4HHreAv4K1PR-62vUXHCGJU4q_0q68M4XaXI6K5Yx7q3HVR0vlSiuWL7eO/s1600/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOa0RXFthDxkro7yQWLuI0GhxC32tyK8mgM8p7nheTtiFD2Rjul75go7flbaQt2Zs7MlT35Cyc0_8U8lA1t4HHreAv4K1PR-62vUXHCGJU4q_0q68M4XaXI6K5Yx7q3HVR0vlSiuWL7eO/s400/20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614990749323672530" border="0" /></a> The "Council of Conservative Citizens"( a white nationalist group) attempted to organize a boycott of the film, outraged precisely because a black man was now a playing a Scandinavian and Germanic God. Considering the "racial" sub-plot involving Loki's (our ethnically confused villain's) illegitimacy, there is some unintentional irony in introducing non-whites to the very Pantheon which is responsible for our conception of God as a white, bearded, old man (more so than Zeus), but the film makes no substantial use of the fact. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwySABqbRFRoJL9Un6kgoKOKk2ZXvTTyhItC3oxWdV4jiCBKvAsZcZZPVLrBK196NzfmxPbzpL_Fw_p3TlOQu5ViWE8IiKAaIViGajj1rlJ-QiCHUJGkW5mdXutVODYNidyvonRV7L63w/s1600/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwySABqbRFRoJL9Un6kgoKOKk2ZXvTTyhItC3oxWdV4jiCBKvAsZcZZPVLrBK196NzfmxPbzpL_Fw_p3TlOQu5ViWE8IiKAaIViGajj1rlJ-QiCHUJGkW5mdXutVODYNidyvonRV7L63w/s400/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614990740604514066" border="0" /></a>Comic book films do not have to be historically accurate, but there is fine line between multi-cultural sensitivity and multi-cultural pandering and these <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Marvel </span>comics based films specifically have been treading into boarder line <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Last Airbender"</span> territory, though as of yet, still not <span style="font-style: italic;">that </span>bad. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinov4WdmrI1-Ak7fwlkNptExe3yE8kdLrP92T-WjPU95a2C86VwzP4m9cteoI4YlQc7H0_CysF0K-LRQx8NtKrXlXE0zaqqLd01tjallO2Hpf6P8o5z8n94p9EO0YqD1uzQlZxAnJnIowE/s1600/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinov4WdmrI1-Ak7fwlkNptExe3yE8kdLrP92T-WjPU95a2C86VwzP4m9cteoI4YlQc7H0_CysF0K-LRQx8NtKrXlXE0zaqqLd01tjallO2Hpf6P8o5z8n94p9EO0YqD1uzQlZxAnJnIowE/s400/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614990746420385522" border="0" /></a>Okay then, good I can drop the soap box until my next update on lame brained affirmative action in fantasy land. And were moving on. <span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrg3Zj8zMZUAjOZOIzCWjHF3Pxg2Wk6WP_VGB8P8MK5IMr4sixzG4qPv-Pr8TH09xW9fax10aJro3ldOYSmhTwyvzj_qVhHdpGUwdKjPJGDlMeWKaXB7wjkTnb6Pfv3dPDhDFEryZM5J6/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrg3Zj8zMZUAjOZOIzCWjHF3Pxg2Wk6WP_VGB8P8MK5IMr4sixzG4qPv-Pr8TH09xW9fax10aJro3ldOYSmhTwyvzj_qVhHdpGUwdKjPJGDlMeWKaXB7wjkTnb6Pfv3dPDhDFEryZM5J6/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979366620239602" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Thor"</span> is a film meant to introduce us to the character, so he can later be brought into<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "The Avengers" </span>film series, set to come out in a few years, and not a film meant to stand on its own, and it doesn't. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqn-5VKdT4Io8LYJ8x8JPoutjVClklI08Xv8k-oUJbLEfNmP3q4i0orfOzNiBgvhBBzPUpGPeKGCD-pPTWenDmIBFkC1eXQBoW2h2yHalbrQvqS48r0HV7mEG4HvcfvkidZMZvx-VvbQZs/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqn-5VKdT4Io8LYJ8x8JPoutjVClklI08Xv8k-oUJbLEfNmP3q4i0orfOzNiBgvhBBzPUpGPeKGCD-pPTWenDmIBFkC1eXQBoW2h2yHalbrQvqS48r0HV7mEG4HvcfvkidZMZvx-VvbQZs/s400/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614990735886870018" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>The film is a less articulate and stylized version of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes"</span>,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8VSicDdeA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8VSicDdeA</a> , forcing us to slough through information a child could breeze through in ten minutes. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGg6BtxtK8igKXXB8P7aOtQaD6WLTX8I_mD30L2OUNojTCT5WlxJMZse_XEgliYAY81FIDZ0r7AE5rzK4whSNPh25w547coVkV54lVb73kwbWPlnBgAAgz_fD4JKCKnV3LNJxQJVUgHbG/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGg6BtxtK8igKXXB8P7aOtQaD6WLTX8I_mD30L2OUNojTCT5WlxJMZse_XEgliYAY81FIDZ0r7AE5rzK4whSNPh25w547coVkV54lVb73kwbWPlnBgAAgz_fD4JKCKnV3LNJxQJVUgHbG/s400/15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979945577586738" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span>To be fair Thor was never particularly exciting as a comic book character, and had it not been for his membership in the Avengers (<span style="font-style: italic;">he's best in small doses</span>) its likely his title would have been discontinued.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaH_4bq4iCIC7F2EU2QR1XA9fJZkrsRkeOS-Xpihw17dORhnNkhOgzZZw-tAe6X_Ctc9M3CiwDounthfbAEKDkFpsanB7CqTYv8DRRTULhsXCA0N9MFZ-A5FvfeVS5x_azElV7_-yMrLM/s1600/11.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaH_4bq4iCIC7F2EU2QR1XA9fJZkrsRkeOS-Xpihw17dORhnNkhOgzZZw-tAe6X_Ctc9M3CiwDounthfbAEKDkFpsanB7CqTYv8DRRTULhsXCA0N9MFZ-A5FvfeVS5x_azElV7_-yMrLM/s400/11.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614980469122008162" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span>Kenneth Branagh's<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "Mary Shelly's </span>Frankenstein<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">" </span>had given me some hope <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Thor" </span>might have something interesting or unusual about it, but lightning clearly has not struck twice.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span><span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8omRpm5uhfSV7XMLQbpv2iy5RDw16dXTguZNKFmI_LTd6jYUk2FosnMGipqH64bJiJvwFb_YwDWd568CIA_eG5BbuBN0FXZXo7LT6kefLJuyP785d-2K2ZFY8cHyBiF2A7UA62-xsAgH/s1600/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 155px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8omRpm5uhfSV7XMLQbpv2iy5RDw16dXTguZNKFmI_LTd6jYUk2FosnMGipqH64bJiJvwFb_YwDWd568CIA_eG5BbuBN0FXZXo7LT6kefLJuyP785d-2K2ZFY8cHyBiF2A7UA62-xsAgH/s400/22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614996783474575986" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span> More effort went into deciding to end this review with that awful pun, than went into anything having to do with this film.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTOOPoDWqPcc3J5a0CYsLNii0jhoJV0OhdxgO9Pt3ydSleJ58oRpa6YHt3TYmvRLGyCArGk-MO8Xq7IVqNkDOddJI2YCmz7OdOuYZHCeaEYDUQTxmt9eMHm0LOGkjrmsC4qudrj8FaoYv/s1600/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTOOPoDWqPcc3J5a0CYsLNii0jhoJV0OhdxgO9Pt3ydSleJ58oRpa6YHt3TYmvRLGyCArGk-MO8Xq7IVqNkDOddJI2YCmz7OdOuYZHCeaEYDUQTxmt9eMHm0LOGkjrmsC4qudrj8FaoYv/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614979758617624418" border="0" /></a>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-49272736775987518152011-04-20T14:58:00.001-07:002011-10-26T18:41:44.483-07:00Slash From The Past<div align="center"><strong><em>Scream 4(2011)<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 306px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597866870778214962" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyA_37k0oJ8tAuONMeeahF15V3fKA7LEris4iRaKN-yACrLbxTny6wlp3bHXt6TsQUKjHIhFhQ_uOm_bebSgqKeAeL_tL6dtjD47FwcPRJMduYs9Cdzq-r02jW4z9TsBL4vsHH6sjGq16u/s400/0.1.jpg" border="0" />Directed By Wes Craven<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597866848885548066" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQxJGOgXn2uKwl3BhPE3bdqvuQO9QYjIRF-eySx_NbDaOfOuJE3uWXB4K0I44NYwjZu4f_UEfQ6-JBYRQVosNhsAGJIOpp8aqd0h4SCWxIBy1po3GcrFpBu39fX_RRmSuufJmHvkucFVu/s400/0.jpg" border="0" /></em></strong> </div><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong><em><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840297842697186" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfe5sA_L6EjuZAIpU9g_nTkDr88dvMG9x9fLqWjxJjN-7z_jzEECduFPMp9S08AMrwl6YPm69sEKZt98KwVop_xB7tJ50a53lkloB5sg9WOVYwDxrDjg3TIapqt-77xtX4uRZ8yTS-ZRy/s400/7.jpg" border="0" /></em></strong><em><strong>"Scream 4"</strong></em> is <em><strong>Wes Craven's</strong></em> best film since the original <strong><em>"Scream"</em></strong> 15 years ago<strong><em>.</em></strong> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597850983435480210" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMCFVJp3Ziiyu8ZFvRSPA44Wu5P7cilYrkGrPX0T4ZDp43NQ7qqK_TpwSCDRpQqA_Vki33McTrGmFBi04RHKfpzHTt7_oJvUqL7jnmydpxXZEJo9OTQVx36WnPK18IHHs1uZNj3BMxhJ1/s400/16.jpg" border="0" />The film begins with a fantastic opening of movies-within-movies trying it's best to get past the years and layers of expectations that have grown up around the original films and especially the even more numerous <em><strong>"Scary Movie"</strong></em> series. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840303017389698" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-edXN1b-K-MDwz3hDRNW1l46bQ5dObwnzjdBgP5YFJVXybD0Gjz6tGbGsgIPQsqNCTJeAbiS8bjg5xmethuemABXWz9OtfF0Rtfyh4kVlYcdnn1w_7bvy1ekCiNVMwWvB3j2W78YFnARm/s400/9.jpg" border="0" />Rather than try to spin off yet another adventure of poor Sydney <em><strong>(Nev Campbell)</strong></em> being chased around by <em>"Ghostface"</em> and his trademark telephone calls in a new location <em>(college and then a Hollywood studio the last times</em>) <em><strong>"Scream 4</strong></em>" goes back to the sites and sets of the original murders in the town of <em><strong>Woodsborrow</strong></em>. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840057552962082" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8jFC-dnfQ6qokAOvoNREziyz8y_inJ9-uPLd6TVUmnjtTZ2s99nAknvBhOWjSeP4wqVTgs1n1-YT5h7T19zDmpKxXnUlBLiCkwQ3-V7275PeiPYf6_0Kg6wzOGxf6iv67VgH8rFat818/s400/1.jpg" border="0" />In <strong><em>"Scream 4", "The Stab"</em></strong> series, films within the Scream-universe inspired by the original murders, have been churned out continuously, and after the seventh Sydney returns to <em>Woodsborrow</em> to do a book signing for her new auto-bio <em>"Out Of Darkness",</em> with which she hopes to reinvent herself. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840063812982898" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0jz0Pxua-m77dgZg8xULkOXWTDVMhCQO2kXT12iq8KCoYyzTStlfVoXOvaBn9P7rzHBWwmS3-te__Ncr9UMKNc3N_z4CGpW3N7qpQDE2XcXI2WCBepoW-SavL41zHSmDYvtEChFr6obh/s400/3.jpg" border="0" />Reinventing yourself is a theme and phrase repeated throughout the film, by Sydney with her book, Gale<em> (Courtney Cox)</em> who is trying to adjust to the pace of small-town life, the "film geeks" who believe the killer is trying to do a "remake" <em>(not a sequel)</em> of the original killings for the modern age, and finally the killer itself. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 380px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840057987670626" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEe_NLVuYV7LczmSeI43gekdpGEY1eYXghlJlb4meuj2toJdgvLNjf-nlOnkXu1HO8UyAwPRxhWHSyQdfiXgW8hR6uJpjcYUw3Fv-MJIMmTzjyFqqGAXJ9-y_KjeQH_C_-WcHfqoDy8a_/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /><em><strong>"Scream"</strong></em> in all its "meta"<em> ("I don't know what it means I heard one of the kids say it")</em> glory was made for an audience who had seen it all when it came to slasher-horror, but <em><strong>"Scream 4"</strong></em> is the audience whose seen <em>Everything</em>, and then the spin-offs, prequels, sequels, parodies, and failed TV versions of<em> Everything</em> as well.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840972901223122" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wZvjiUu1Dy5wiKI1aOxLKeArlgqnJaPbw9HrjI9F07MTcaNHZw5e41NF0JDsP0pETECwPxjv4oFvYVVIrIxa7tI2U6tNNx_Blh9GRGSK5F2_1fcm111Q0BPCZwKXVJhTqtSa3XLGoTI1/s400/124.jpg" border="0" /> Too bad despite all this prior knowledge, and everyone from the hottest ingenue to the lowliest nerd able to rattle off laundry lists of horror film titles, no one attempts even the most basic survival techniques <em>(like arming themselves)</em> until the films end. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 215px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840967709790642" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBypFSrFz-nRYBcd5XF_zAAQUcBjaHXZ7OStJXdUhAkwkQeKIkUtL-Y4az-hqPGwAqbZqS1zLkxfZRDFe8uB2BdjTVLLazarhfTtG-hWkxUWUSn3lrQbDOE6NijA5_z84V2stwIAd1TSCH/s400/123.jpg" border="0" />In a town full of murder, people still stay at home alone, open front doors, get out of their cars, throw parties, and all but paint targets on their chest.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840070176520946" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYhpCspZ3EitL5hoHHMCgs1mZN6tNpubxk1TnLunF_0jFmRJUjNKJj5n8pFqfHFykyHaibT5OtlKlPFmfQMJ6nnMWGT2lUIRpUSfgMvcOzhf4ogMYU3QNnjRog_qyZGC1jsFIA4PwKuLi/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /> <em>"Name-dropping"</em> is just that; easy list making, if any substantial information or ideas behind any of those names, goes unremembered and unapplied.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840305807048802" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMl7HPswpLYufntojQ8dKgRu61Jtbw_6WXBySblSYxkTJ9eE88LewLWYxXYIAYCEZcTg0HHGZ4CoQeuW7M9PUffpsXDstAuysxRpjm1Z10431FYpqQpl_TolSqPc-uW4lZ_ceyarz-o9Z/s400/10.jpg" border="0" /> If no one learns anything from previous films or from events earlier in the film, then the post-modern playfulness becomes empty posturing. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 296px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597850977781082322" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLD0CbLgD-9J6tT2OqhzGKeN8HxHKg_hFdpgJ9TE7YLvUbX0mzvMeYesmtmqL_wuiPcRSFHSAWulCYpc1gcL6HzDBMyO-edjRXh7vwk3zbIaEO8x6ukDh0FuldHcU7lFYhfWLZk_O0vxkT/s400/15.jpg" border="0" />Though innovative and entertaining in its own right, the style of the film has more a brain than its characters. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840073222971906" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBs4kfM6XWJ66TatZFzh8NNZYidBvLQLgf7YH5223k2yPfsHdR5qeGgrqyaw1TTp_kGe8uvllYIstHha59cKr08jpanmOVV7uI8Hpwb1H0fzvNKFmblfUVU7zuiNTKFiilgV3uG66jWiM/s400/5.jpg" border="0" />To really re-invent the slasher genre you would have to after the <em>"deconstruction"</em> (which <em><strong>"Scream"</strong></em> accomplished amply) you would then take out the parts that don't work and <span style="font-style: italic;">re-construct</span> into something better, not just continue along the same path while commenting and becoming ever more aware of its flaws and limits.<strong><em> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840973801353666" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5kLzfW54_aS_uecna05ciTtqjyMKC7H3N9DM_Y4OmFP7g67HbhOhyphenhyphen5iETy7ZIM27L8MspKJii2Gd3eqERsNMcayJto2UuLW2xUEhjci6rS4xJXAJblr92dDr8DDlJLYCw44a_Y0sU_b2M/s400/126.jpg" border="0" />"Scream 4"</em></strong> as many times as I laughed or found myself surprised by a bit of witty dialog or particularly effect scare, is still "deconstructing" cliches and tropes while then stumbling right into them <em>(the lack of weapons, opening doors, being alone in desolate areas etc</em>). <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840962249328546" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsh6TJnGKPDqgbzHJm1LRJKKnDl3-P42OLCju8bTYRmQKsWVKyKDcutXwv3uoQi7gv4TdB6V9w9MdIIFlHS_80BueMOnxx1f578aRFrd9qMT7d37xWrw0DUmUiyyMmrl5j9K5pK8P_D1y2/s400/122.jpg" border="0" />The film is a wormhole for those looking to examine self-reflexivity nearly to the point of exhaustion, but it doesn't practice enough of what it preaches. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840635184919138" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijz_TLDJLqwK9-iYZ14tPz4E3DK9f_10jsv-GEliMdeGC5mm23GxxDex332I0LyJS0au5FL-JXjoWDSoW340tcXkityFtvmf4p0EC_QHn08trW9AogION9mbABX352wUtpRTGZD_bWl140/s400/11.jpg" border="0" />Unable to create genuine scares, it makes up for it with jokes, in-jokes, peek-a-boo surprises and peppy dialogue with no lag time or wasted sub-plots. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840293058927426" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LSD-C1uAEARMe2LxUdwvMbQbzGT2YFztsIbtmqt6PhqbuIY8khrP6v8ywAzP0RFOnZIWtLEsaNDK0szlFDUKm5y9V0mToEd_dy1PfJ51NaZ54bGQpbslda6liOShoTVz2zsvCKJ_UGAn/s400/6.jpg" border="0" />The killers motives haven't advanced much over the series childhood scars and a need for fame come up again and again, but in <em><strong>"Scream4</strong></em>" they come across more bitterly with less faith in the<em> "future". </em>The sequels will not save us. <em><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597850987472586066" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUT6t-XscZI7Bn9QmhcXi53IM1VAK00ZJZY6o0r75D7xb4eIfeWJadxV3c6xS8kuy61JMJah4UdnLrRRYxHRS7jeURf1NOY6n0iDKY80bYcn1mV3isa1pbrYSRTWrEb7XSvPf6Gjmx4SNw/s400/17.jpg" border="0" /></em>In fifty years as the killer reminds us the slasher film has come no further than "<em><strong>Peeping Tom", </strong></em>in its obsessions with voyeurism and violence, regardless of how non-invasive our modern cameras have become <em>(one character wears a camera attached to his head). <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597841208519659314" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nYVE-7hwBG8ANUSAPFnu8ipqYWkBrENLDChip8TTY0zuqswpaD8Xypb1CFWMBAVV9cayS-o5mFogKQtwweTozftazEnlKCSnRElsy__ewcsOoLOO2A1_OODmMVLpQyxhOIC26NTcjw61/s400/129.jpg" border="0" /></em>But by the end of the movie, truth be told, I was more than satisfied. I enjoyed <em><strong>"Scream 4". <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597841205342468818" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiROJhXE46ZT9KrJSj3DFSH2vR4iYeD-o0-AKTdTrS13U2NrAoqvKMVN0F8So8YT4zCEb1pMY7snfLwM6xjlym5s26a7PX8rNh0nJolChsGQbkuLeifMakS09Ooff7_-MP85z6A56_0IlYA/s400/128.jpg" border="0" /></strong></em>Coming out of a three film slump with<em> (in order of awful in decreasing order)</em> <em><strong>"Red Eye", "My Soul To Take",</strong></em> and <em><strong>"Cursed" Wes Craven</strong></em> has finally returned with something lively and stylish. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597866743573478114" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd94D_4yuo_jVXl4kWnj4dnaFS-1HvhJd-QP0XTNtptJilrGuA3mlf1nCK7keqnMQhOX3ZN6CKxmd-FLDsk2N5NS17elx80ubLZZ6Ka_lPHbrSU0WOXed3UfMxsiTFI1hkaSfJhZMD6jLd/s400/127.jpg" border="0" />His latest film is not one of his most original but like <em><strong>"Vampire In Brooklyn"</strong></em> and <em><strong>"New Nightmare"</strong></em> proves to be one of his more clever pastiches, and if nothing else confirms Craven's position as a master of his medium.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597840975914034770" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTsh8jPBsTBI-R2bgn8feYEaZMb1FD7zekEW9NGV2s_sL8ECuvZ7Dno50UA-iXhBFmzUrBC1hTZXxwf0XWnMOPsq0YQqTr-lSVMr9qSVSPIEhiYC4r70kWFNK8nRY8NGwPEiFf0rXnJ_Ef/s400/125.jpg" border="0" /></div>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-3846745156447491542011-04-10T18:44:00.000-07:002011-04-14T22:01:29.561-07:00Hotwire My Heart<div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Repo Chick(2009)</b></i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSsl75IXTz5DmUs9ETf9bRkq6rdIMVYD77fwFDpp-zCvljX_We8XhTHAl_WQfVjrQ8e2vVYL8aqwogdIjG6m0mDEcSay7slO8SqiM5jDmGjfGiFGH_HDFTQ_52uLHdXqaJlw68uhQk2p0/s400/4.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595599952303951090" /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Directed By Alex Cox</b></i></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP4rLl8ER9LabUAOo_zJsh0leHH4zOtctKijzhIaaJQ4MPHhd9Y3eVzYTUVeFVzGBKsx7cjN-yrXuKYaGkR2ujTT7sP26Mm0INEq_0XbrMIOqt4pgNoRITKHKiNBwygtZ3cAPHdcTIF2j/s1600/35.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP4rLl8ER9LabUAOo_zJsh0leHH4zOtctKijzhIaaJQ4MPHhd9Y3eVzYTUVeFVzGBKsx7cjN-yrXuKYaGkR2ujTT7sP26Mm0INEq_0XbrMIOqt4pgNoRITKHKiNBwygtZ3cAPHdcTIF2j/s400/35.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595612958917159970" /></a><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidp9uGwg8WbNyATM0WD3_WYCKrHXX_L2N-OS3n2yYgWetBu08qLa3YXA0nIJLEeflbmtsV5b5nBL_IH9BRkvL_rkD_poOHMylfbe2iWzWkrKeunlbvnPqXRMF3DhVqt3i-guPaUhGNvEA8/s400/9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601784680323202" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 203px; " /><div><b><i>Alex Cox's "Repo Man" </i></b>is remembered if remembered at all as the <i><b>Emilio </b></i><i><b>Estevez</b></i> movie with the punk soundtrack.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymp7TQd9yOmb4SRlnWxb0vDoE5Tw5wwt0asjH5qxcgwOk4AX0jK47H4TrTv2Su0zecRf9m3cBFa0mcTyO9yrnCaNO48gJbqAs_rQmauNxWSxNFlRoYDA7pCBs6smU2R364j1RJFxV6aE5/s400/12.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 219px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600358701158370" /><div>Vague memories of downtown <i><b>Los Angeles </b></i>and neon green glowing car trunks might stumble toward your memory as well.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQispxQVCLs82PWxsPtfiGRgi0nxnvJBljfYHnmIJeGZes-hquBNgzeWTk1vEYpA29rB4F61xKdcCKEiANUKu4GK-oahvS_SA1kcQnw5i_kWpfgG4KF1EajAPmrEThFRWxBbhmtRJDgJnb/s400/19.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601136054804146" /><div>Over a decade later, and still far under the radar Cox returns with an update for the 2000's with <i><b>"Repo Chick".</b></i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3HCEEgIW_NazGERDlXuXxX8InpZHscFpjvXvVTLOfW4c2DmrAz8kez9bGC7zl8pi1aCqS96soscQLRSlOUH-6YeLY6Cx5sz5_j5ocg7hH60k-SEKn9JAduDauI3pRWugmUJfgxxcZc9-/s400/29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 206px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595607130207389218" /><div><i><b>Repo Chick</b></i> is the story of a disgustingly wealthy heiress named <i>Pixxie</i> who lives her life according to her parents in and out of clubs, police cars, and sandwiched between backup dancers.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8scFvOSWsPjyP9BMCGQoNRNXrGz1LOA1IRzD3_S8CUzad4PYF6Pm7cWrayTZ6ssQog9mtZ8Cf8BTYa2gHAcjMtP5TWO-ZscQWzaPRGcZgKv4njRMGaALdeyF5tvwCdI_5pLHejbcb0zNd/s400/30.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595612648065889010" /><div>Her family has finally decided to disinherit her if she cannot find a job. </div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMiax1F_Bzv56dIX-1FxZ5IY3HhqoH3D0KjyZFHN24Si7wPqKNNHIUzzB4A0xBbB7XWLoIFVXn0qQ6bUJJkCpe1mzuUfA2izWfBrihZpVEr56Xq1RQOGZSkTijC0QPgBPCtQXVgyDHjvR/s400/17.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 178px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600800379049122" /><div>Her only explanation is that "<i>they be lying at my probation hearing".</i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0RzN2Opz0K7_VYN_8-AIgiYBOev_UTXstFh-3UhLKZPKeLc360lvYC8R6n2arcTp6nRC81_kyt9xcAixVJkx6bZKY1_655QA4DV3XQHl8cxNwyiuPB6KYz6A2ltSzK_CTvXdw_XESD5c/s400/10.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600353800820306" /><div>Her car is repossessed and when she goes to retrieve it, discovers that one of the members of her entourage is related to one of the repo men. </div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhdKR4pt6Xy3xDgyAk64NcaPTcOkJCtHT-4BVNlyGIQvNqWVgCJLFuzWunoq1_L9r7BYw9E3yGuUbWJd_ESu-slL9rXilkrsg1qnVCBNXmBAxtVV0rNTRmg3vtkVTeE6sTzlb4lUYkNst/s400/34.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595610466547284114" /><div>Small world.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJIIt2l2WeCNArCyiq66KIEaID4ISIMDLRU9ZDV5LkMrwBd19txC-EmniuzNhnai4hx6KWvUqyCO5J5BogybztYEqrbv9PCl_hW64WEv2BTmFlC8eg5eWR6Iiq0vcLTWCa1yl88aUirkbC/s400/16.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595610569650954866" /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5QSFXEbiSr-nQLx3yCjQ517U4C9lt9MYMA46lppuQr7P9AToyEfd16ZG2blNXRrfL3yNL5uMbOjwOQ7HPGYnpV_uqoeb33nHzfrpTsI7gV2-msM3tctAg3OfsvB0sId5Btog4M0cuaFC/s400/22.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601153237065362" /><div>Pixxie decides to claim her fortune by staying on as a "repo chick". </div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WY4DkH7BoQscA_IELyjrtsyLJm50CQs3iEy0cY5nepvlHOUwjadV7NG4FqhHZQZgQqOoihH1LMbEpmGKtvfhGmasA3EuDY3LGz1lhQe6otP5SVFRdoeH4LuTAlR2mKV5vc2HFVPnwk_u/s400/5.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595599962289076482" /><div>Naturally her entourage is also trying to make a reality show about Pixxie's new life.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEtrXHEeLJ0k_yC1ITGZaRUleYqvMf9ThpRELng4a1fBubNk7r8OxwZIcrrlx1oTZU6f1OKuPucJT48AbGOHoKKolUpjfmrpyaRQzSc6gZspNX6oG4OUvewOlDTq2EgVkxGiH15Cf76Ig/s400/32.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595610467459733730" /><div>Here the wafer thin rationality of the film ends and cartoon logic and the extremes of political parody take over.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJ4JBVTKuV3dFZopVhA0lAFLwBz2NQsRBGh3XvFwis4-izYl6hOVFsmv_6Eddx9pO1gXVP5imp8FibjLMWXLSf-UH-6SKfg903oUYBZb59SOW35XmSUAjg_z0p7f8qp6DCuiUr2R_tnMM/s400/13.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600770553702450" /><div>I should mention for instance that the film takes place in a future America where "<i>the banks caused a housing crisis by selling homes to people who </i><i>couldn't</i><i> afford them",</i> the country has collapsed to the point where the only remaining industries are the military and repossessions. Mounds of garbage litter the landscape like <i><b>Mike Judge's "Idiocracy".</b></i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1EPZ05IFevVvmdWEnFGNWOdqTksvK0pOl8NKa8sZcpilJLUH7N-KbEoKevEzV19gBbquy5_-uc4lnVVWF_ElWEjCY0NrVNHD2RIhz2D72VjjNF76VkYnNuC4nGDIjQbF9ElRHiVCpPfWW/s400/27.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595604615571558178" /><div>The special effects amateurish and stylized; ultra-flat cartoon style backdrops filling out the scenery.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrjRBshS83fhvfnRnLo0mQKNnHxYpIQSWrw5hfZTjQ8DH58N0fzoqvsb1zwAhdLK3vkt1vnIK-sgCPdlYJewZ2VTPFJg4M2yyHmB8euH0b-lS1HlB6XdDtDRyAbUK2yqEuQnqjxusMLjC/s400/28.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595604622297480018" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px; " /><div>Likely a reaction against the all encompassing 3d sheik that drives the multiplexes.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TPEzwuYLjStLs0SQkWCL8-mgX8QnOV81807ywP5kHQ08-t6BSVEobmsI6o7TOcxZdsHKTYk_CwLTsqRDPSrAc5n80F2drdJfgdsVI6KnoVbu_Mr8NmVSQciwmE7ZuL-HD6gV_Fq9qb6y/s400/26.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601488407727730" /><div>How Pixxie goes about her repossessions is gloriously reduced to only reaction shots of people fleeing in terror.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrxgCp3b86U80dRZ-nT91ZOFQRbLwLNOOjEIiJJUgkhbhwpQtG_6KVui61ogksbikTVahdyiKLB2uU4I8I6ofBLVNEkm_axiwkw1TgVmH3FOwI7gYXz5hfH-NSaEiFC1Xv0daJPVFW4OF3/s400/23.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601156973520450" /><div>She repossesses football stadiums, malls, houses, beds from under sleeping children etc., or so we are told by <i><b>Miguel Sandoval</b></i> her guide to the world of repossessions.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmr3fcMxhnPJWQyj7opKZmokE1l1TMvrkpEnIB9bCvZEHZNV6h_71dnL2uGJmD95ur2tjPrOi_m8bi66z492uJsAA0LP3mXnjUaBLfXzxd-5Gvqa7xl7dpnq5nZeBjpw6Up4zRg0bVN9oA/s400/14.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600780981567714" /><div>Sandoval is often a bit actor in other films, but Cox here as in his nativity farce <i><b>"Three Businessmen"</b></i> finds ways of using of his odd charms.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeH1zH_plafAAOdvPfmL3eMnjkDPs8JqiUnVoi0mRYkPxzwe0rFmdMR0xyyk2Y-pTvWlYvPd9oa1hN-2awmEW4KZMK9Hdsp32va5JRHkyz-vKhJOn7wR1bMnmYpojkXwbP2xEeOW4wM27C/s400/8.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600347484776658" /><div>The only real <i>"action"</i> in the film takes place aboard a train carrying several powerful authority figures (<i>a senator, a media mogul, a religious leader, etc) </i>which Pixxie tries to repossess<i> (while the train is moving</i>) only to become embroiled in a left-wing terror plot involving veganism and golf.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnQx7AvJele_8AOcgv2BSg0B7cPn2ZTYMXBRUzrw9fuKWPN0GkaSzjOdp3iWE6zb6hpHQ-1KbLbY0dS_y0nJF4-hV5at93Kgu4x6xWGVWNwWKA5idcqs1_KKMsBEgYIKHFQwWKS5oKCN7/s400/15.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595600786072243282" /><div>The pleasures to be had from watching <i><b>Repo Chick</b></i> are in its unpredictability, the plot begins unhinged and proceeds into tatters from there.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHlIiQMa2UNWV0N5xJBAsw0ahEe7z9np48iTksCIkrczI3s-9rmv1XqYtZY11cvZNywVW0mQbWNDbB8lpoPVxXda4jNVZL3ao-DTAfuWgQEHpaEUO1lStV6mJn0lpg2g7M2fiz6jaoJjH/s400/24.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601486423230658" /><div>Pixxie's life as a model/actress/clothing designer/fragrance maker/and general purveyor of meaningless things make her an ironic choice for repossessions, now reclaiming the crap that she previously slathered her face onto.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-RG0WXSri8CMgCM2KkXulAadJGcnfe9nOBt8lPczn_Y75O6gNtKSyd1H3g5I1ziXh3I04fctQWOEHtJZNyA7GnCNHYglewVSqDK7FpkmJGtgzZVRhqqcj35HcSfBqjNTNVl5vg5DMfp_/s400/3.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595599957221948674" /><div><b><i>"This film is based on true events only the dimensions have been changed.",</i></b> those dimensions of political satire, between the terrorists, the rich, the military, and the working stiffs waiting to repossess it all, have all been flattened to comic book dimensions both visually and comically.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRVj_iFkt_DNG0aXk4kqbtJUlLYvlVrKaRmSsmWYHdbMYp5pljJrVz9kLI8ItDaE69nPjsHPkQWpdxjDcZ6Y3LsDbxMnSuiu5h0ajl3Q90clE4yNr-7wHTDqf4mTOlqlnfa4fiKRanKloQ/s400/25.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601490956748354" /><div><i><b>Repo Chick</b></i> is trashy, clever satire aimed a culture that idolizes slick animation and soulless glamour, and that its attacks rarely get specific is also apart of its embrace of the modern flippant "psh whatever" ethos that empowers youth markets everywhere.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPDj9VOy-30fie3-XLz__0bnVmLlDWQQwu-KW7m1DV1OfoXNLKbKtrjCuZGY3dw6vEvQiPBwh2uZ2IaEkyvyPYaBvq8m9Ck2FFhyb8o1Semc8N97yKJZirjrB3tLDZwScqrjuOY7QBoGj/s400/21.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595601152286436514" /><div>The characters in <i><b>Repo Chick</b></i> handle there self-awareness with some wit, and in the final scene especially, a measure of grace.</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBt4zO9Yzn0cFFNxXw2vDdvqalsKdbdo0IKMSCbGs-9W5BsgW7p9r5sTdWXmuQiQeJZ39DygsrVkfKG4EDGAo1y-laSHyyKQWC4nYB4yi7XypNl-15hjAoTJOUzDyxGhCmCxNIaTmgWcu/s400/6.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595599964970988594" /><div>The humor wont work for everyone at times it failed to gather anything greater than bemusement, but the jokes that fail are forgotten, and the ones that endure are like junkyard treasures that instantly possess you to run out and show to all your friends. </div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMCq3KLO1X6k3RbP_OJoChFtI2_gnFcUaWInK7s6T6FdrzlAQ6xKm4-Dhq7dyhrJcEKmAMuTo8a1-7poJnrB9ktDqEsajSvyfvLx_3C7wtJdsUYg9wdbkSjqO6NmBYOW-bxf7pAKl1OSC/s400/31.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595610461582050722" /><div><i><b>Repo-Chick</b></i> is trash in rare form. </div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhYSpfbET4H8GFvguMwj5J_Xz8OQgCd_nXPu8_AqSOJIqoDp4jChKyuLHvWabSUhD03FzRQZUpf79bBM4WgakU59z_9uHZfBbZdAH8eytqTkrTBw7eXs__q_uD_f-Jpnkum8crHzEiOKan/s400/1.1.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595604619769229442" /></div>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858977289373245794.post-46343795696163692722011-03-18T15:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T16:10:53.928-07:00Joe's One Stop Dream Shop<div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Dreams That Money Can Buy(1947)</b></i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_oDe5hNXSpl-WZxk_p0H8Xq-D0TkowsIL-laCEqkaAkMoLt-YZsl8wKTcZganLILYhwAybkKhVakbzjfThkq5pZqI-jrUIaJPtVgJkbSmpezG4wNIQ8AlodX-hRqUXpZfGcwWZPyI6TE/s400/23.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585556435941149490" /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Directed By Hans Ricther</b></i></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7LjfTEbFMeAQ3SnmFgvUwEK8_yY-X7EM5wp7u8CGaFBzat2HzZhbVSVNAw5LlFgdORLdNCuFOd2J7BuqZf5g7SUC34pm5IF0h2_gRdX92isqr97PQrqT8XsD5oqAi45gujOJdZjxzoRMz/s400/19.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551943360244290" /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3Qa3-qdOF6iVBuvVDjhjGpBYlR_sV06-6Ode5DpMbDQLTLICUs1uiP6upe3r7j3XabjQYolU5JL7Ey0QAyrcrXh1zZ3HwLN9i-AxhjuG4susNSst9l4iiXWQrdKX63fs2X9bZp8_X92K/s400/6.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551610499967506" /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3EmrwQJTyh_DEeZ1Wj_WqewSpUVr_k1V2rLLulcjlf2SqAsT9nJcDUH7bZiDtMMXxALSBvPCEwEXo_T0wRBLzMKDomxtJZFfHmVjRFagMGxFBJJrnK5TcJi0fCZZQGfori7ql_okS6Vz/s400/22.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585556437094320530" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Painter and film theorist</span><b> Hans Richter</b></i> and some of his friends in the old time surreal avant-garde gang; <i><b>Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Max Ernst</b></i>, decide to get together and direct a surprisingly accessible<b><i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(for these guys this is "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>Oceans 11"</b></span>), </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">film about a man who sets up a business selling dreams to people, who cant have any of their own.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZyureHQ1NKWZhZaVJAd_ASCgqve9lUHM6eVSWqR0fHg53ggwgTfo31cWu5h1JGEUOc8CSTDrjZyhvV09Df0jhcOxIFT_8iYrDXYJsitKlvVmnhKi2cLT3zQVjZggrt9Y3puQFXkpKfNn/s400/21.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585552688087035650" /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">After all, as our narrator Joe informs us, <i><b>"If you can look inside yourself, other people shouldn't be any problem".</b></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9uWsIkZ8UPvg-3DRWWtFCAUcV5FqAZyYEn5AIW8lc40yv8BuEsUcN4MTWwjlcNYVo5MFHHJW8aUjPHj_dNEfN_qW-jXTIaO1pdCKWgpBnL5LQkqxmGc_AiOejCs-RNwKu-YvZt43U9Qk9/s400/17.jpg" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551927555981954" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><div style="text-align: left;">Assorted characters come into the Dream shop, a gangster, a repressed banker, an overzealous pamphleteer, a blind man, a bored housewife, etc, and all are given dreams, each one directed by a different surrealist; <i>Ernst, Duchamp, Ray</i>, etc.</div></span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJpvlE7l4W1NJo24PIoCsKsJCawg4cO0BrEnvT3p880qo6_mzC6qcRvuH3S0xlPmLJniEXBTgHLkBUe6cwKHOz_g8FMQByfGeJpz_o0Zn0EO_EzflYvc_ICwNprvvOgMVZVtThqcoI_7H/s400/25.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585552707919663314" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">Which alternately, delight, offend, disturb, and annoy there patrons.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXJ8eneMPxqCUVEQRFm1j6Ne2FO9JBDh6U-QVzZsVb7jXQHqRS4YpLQWvuv_xh1cwZGOAIt_D78AKZGdobDUQ_qeb2Zx_pKDvXJWw4GcRMlCcT0tc52RS4yfu2A9d3ITqtr8lEhaDgqBq/s400/22.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585552690759567202" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">In that respect it's a little like an anthology film, with each dream, a story in the story, the best of which is a satire of conventional 1940's relationships, staring two mannequins who fall in love and get married.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2d4WZ9KuWM4fFcbQH187N9FYO9-sKCD740QfaE1YIrfYLYdE4YQNtteXpkn68zJPbm2HGm2J5GFVv2jfyt14OhaS1_IDLI2y4nBIUb0yfjIk5tFEGHCez9z8dlLWPy5ZNzS2Hu28IJalD/s400/10.jpg" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551612560013922" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">It's a surprisingly charming and funny little feminist music video (<i><b>I want the song from this sequence!)</b></i>.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLeMEqMZd0Fx8CfrGKQTjfw_2-7_uX07eKcHXjXLvGw-JmLQLzdoBDW7gWLJqBtrQ8IKlfU2kKugsZNAb2h4ykcfr-16_J1xYYNM1s5lHp0NkVpcDaLydl7EvtRXOTQcvGCRL5TzLhRJyQ/s400/21.jpg" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585556476764603906" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">Though the rest of the music is handled by experimental composer <i><b>John Cage</b></i>, who gives the film both a traditional comedic tone and one of ambiguous minimal drones and squeaks.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_fJQzAaepAoGEsrshbFw-SVvwkFhpdNIvmDMA9_hEMUrLAsJvqoNsiBpDoRjQThLucFz6tW4R0gK1onZu7a8RDuOkBkGJi3iw4VsZlWyZQfKkFIa7s1IihOV_ByVHxksEPgPKdZypX5o/s400/24.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585552701607152002" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">The narrative of the framing tale, that is the story of Joe, owner and dream weaver of the business, is also distinct in that, none of the characters mouths move, and when dialog does take place on screen it comes as voice over, usually with one characters monologues followed by the others. </span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIS-npZHaBqdqMGmuY1lCPtiwOxBIokEAigZVI5GKLkwc8kKc5bVGeGLkgKMUgcsiUObuP58u2Sufyr31QKDKlmjZkcxNP-MsAJ_0yTEdygSXJ9xeWNSJJ3_BjG-wa5D4dM6etYPzLGoj/s400/7.jpg" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551615434933618" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">Most of these are spoken in a kind of<b><i> </i></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Beat</span></span> </b></i>style rhyming <i>(this is also a decade before any of the big Beat writers <b>Keroac, Ginsberg</b>, etc, start publishing.).</i></span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnX4WyrMIePToFEJLJ7rMzzuZL8JiFNRT8xit4tJVpY-EsDVJymCN3PsiyE7h7gJR9nhuS92QC63H_T3oqgN7vipl4MpQPULXW4XcKShDJaRaARM-P8Z74U-bs4w5iWIUifl0Rxq_1URYY/s400/23.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585552701169760066" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">Though this rhyming can take a minute to adjust to, it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "> gives the film a much needed sense of rhythm and continuity, as a good framing story should. </span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJOUDLUxElVc7RhoAixM1cEWdhTnPGxGGsu-_HOs1ZGcgtsCT3WchG1fduUsVd-vRMa6yCD59Dq8IhvmDWvGdQ5QlJixjE1unV8l419cClWdXidX8FkjSUpOLdx6JXB7eKa-P33AHzG1X/s400/20.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551944294024594" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">If you like early avant-garde films or the artists involved, this is an absolute must see, but if your also just interested in early comic fantasy, stories about dreams, poetry, or just watching something visually different, that doesn't just dismiss narrative as a nuisance, it's worth the price of admission.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAhE984bFIcWVD8hP2ZkIXxUxVFaNF9svUbgCS64hdXqoQcJ4amiNDqqM3gl7aniLrE47HGMzuux8tI22ZL303Y1-sfB4gOAjgV6vipRMkmKEg4OuooE_P6LVaJgQLFF7Pt4DI8aduocQB/s400/18.png" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551934502165618" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; ">Few films see the relationship of dream, cinema, and audience this clearly or eerily, but don't take my word for it...</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jNF6ADjFQi2j1-H9M2C_ODYrGdhjk_MSqsyoKJtqqb7LHXf5enf1AaB9MwDNYxaYAyB6z2vT7Yfn0roQ22CpfKszRh9y7611Ol8tb7Zq3TDK4b7CHFgP8fz5SCMfU3tru-g3yQYbC7Ix/s400/5.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585551373200289266" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303G8-8dVWg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303G8-8dVWg</a></span></div>Joe Sylvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00689936237561167380noreply@blogger.com0