Okay, so this is actually a recent one. A really recent one actually…literally a week or so ago. I had just read the comic, and was able to see the movie like, two days later. First of all, I absolutely loved the comic. The…feelings that were there…I just…it hit me on a different level. The whole, standing by and watching someone you love being tortured and killed thing, really got to me…cause I understand it. On a lower level…a little while ago, I was notified that one of my best friends was shot and killed by her ex boyfriend. And…the helplessness and the guilt that you feel after something like that, is beyond anything. It really is. I was encouraging her to break up with him, I mean, he was terrible to her…but I was encouraging her, and I would have to assume that because she broke up with him, was why he shot her…and that took me a looong time to deal with. Then, the fact that at 2am one Saturday night, I was up laughing, being an idiot, watching movies with my friends, she was dying…alone…and I wasn’t there…and there was nothing I could do…and…yah. You know what? shit like that isn’t supposed to happen in real life :/
So. As I said. It was a different situation, but a lot of what was there…I felt really connected to. And I was not surprised at all to find out that the guy who wrote it did so after his girlfriend died.
So, comic was an A+ …now, the movie I didn’t enjoy so thoroughly.
I knew that going from something written to a film, it was probably going to lose its emotion, and it wasn’t going to be as personal…But it was even less genuine feeling than I expected.
The guy that played Eric…Brandon Lee…I just, didn’t like it very much. Everything…his hair, which in the comic had a cool David Bowie/Daniel Ash kinda spikey think going on was just, not. His voice, was very clear and very…normal? I just expected him to be less normal I guess. I wanted like a soft, deep, kinda raspy voice…he should have been more mysterious. And his fucking teeth omg :P I didn’t even get a chance to admire his chest because every time he talked I looked and his teeth and thought TIM CURRY in Rocky Horror Picture Show haha…big white teeth, black lips…yah. The soundtrack was good…and the setting…like the town, the shots where the would just kinda move around over the city, I thought those were really cool…I liked them.
And the little girl, was in the movie muchhh more than in the comic. She was in the comic for like two scenes, quite randomly…So, I liked that.
Anyway, I’m going to bed…I’m like typing on word at like 4am on a Tuesday night…I may add more later, cause I’m kind of unsatisfied with this…but I write weird things when I start to lose consciousness, so Imma stop for now.
Comic – 9.2/10
Movie – 7.1/10
Sunday, May 30, 2010
K-PAX
Okay…So, I caught this movie on TV a little while ago, and I don’t know how, but I had never heard of it. I consider myself to be a fairly big Kevin Spacey fan, and what I haven’t seen by him, I usually have heard about. Anyway, it hit the info button and see Kevin Spacey’s name there on the TV just kinda made my day (:
K-PAX is a relatively new movie…2001 I think. Starring Kevin Spacey, obviously, and Jeff Bridges. It is about a man, or alien perhaps, named Prot, played by Kevin Spacey, who claims he is from a different planet, K-PAX, which is like 1000 light years away. Upon this fact becoming public knowledge, he is obviously sent to a mental hospital to consult with a doctor, who is Jeff Bridges. So, Prot is like, insanely intelligent, and seems to know an incomprehensible amount of information about this planet K-PAX and how it orbits etc. He knows so much information that it impresses and even teaches even the most accomplished astronomers. We learn that the residents of K-PAX lack the family structure that we have. Kids, parents, siblings, etc…are non-existant, well, they do not know of each other. Also, the act of reproduction is incredibly painful. And what I am wondering is…why would anyone have the desire to reproduce then? My first thought when I heard that it hurt terribly to have sex was, you know what? I think that would make for a much more efficient society. Because of that, people will only have sex if they want a child, if they really love each other, have the means to support it etc. It would put an end to rape, teen parents, abortions etc. Everything that is trivial today. But then, I remembered the fact that they don’t have families. They don’t have spouses. So…with a lack of family structure, I just don’t see how they would have the desire to go through that, just to pop out a kid that they won’t be responsible for caring for and loving anyway. Unless its for the good of the community, which I guess would make sense… I dunno. ANYWAY.
I can’t remember the exact quote, but at one point, Prot reveals that everyone at K-PAX has learned how to self-heal…thus eliminating the use of doctors, I would assume. Prot kind of takes it upon himself to start teaching the other patients in the mental hospital this tool and in very unorthodox ways, actually begins to help some of them heal. While Prot was helping out these patients by making them do the weirdest things and things they would normally never do…it really reminded me of how Jack Nicholson’s character helped out the patients in the mental hospital in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, similarly.
So, the one big question you are left with at the end of the movie, is whether or not Prot is an alien, or a human. We are told the story of Robert Porter, through Prot, while being hypnotized. Robert came home one day to find his family raped and murdered and attempted suicide in the river behind his home. Prot claims to have been friends with Robert Porter, and comes to earth whenever Robert needs him…however, being more logical, the doctor draws the conclusion that Prot is Robert Porters second personality…a personality that emerged after he failed his suicide attempt and needed to totally separate himself from earth. While this theory makes sense, we are still left to wonder how he was absolutely resistant to drugs, and how he escaped the hospital, and how he knew of solar systems that the greatest astronomers did not…
The way it ends…with Prot, or Robert, in a wheelchair, not talking…never talking according to the doctor…makes me lean towards believing he has a mental disorder. As much as I would love the alien…the fact that once his second personality was crushed, he is still distancing himself from the world in some way, kinda convinces me of that fact.
The acting was fairly good…Kevin Spacey stood out above the rest by just a bit…not as much as I expected. I think the whole him wearing glasses the whole time took away from the acting a bit, we didn’t get to see his eyes a whole lot...
7.4/10
K-PAX is a relatively new movie…2001 I think. Starring Kevin Spacey, obviously, and Jeff Bridges. It is about a man, or alien perhaps, named Prot, played by Kevin Spacey, who claims he is from a different planet, K-PAX, which is like 1000 light years away. Upon this fact becoming public knowledge, he is obviously sent to a mental hospital to consult with a doctor, who is Jeff Bridges. So, Prot is like, insanely intelligent, and seems to know an incomprehensible amount of information about this planet K-PAX and how it orbits etc. He knows so much information that it impresses and even teaches even the most accomplished astronomers. We learn that the residents of K-PAX lack the family structure that we have. Kids, parents, siblings, etc…are non-existant, well, they do not know of each other. Also, the act of reproduction is incredibly painful. And what I am wondering is…why would anyone have the desire to reproduce then? My first thought when I heard that it hurt terribly to have sex was, you know what? I think that would make for a much more efficient society. Because of that, people will only have sex if they want a child, if they really love each other, have the means to support it etc. It would put an end to rape, teen parents, abortions etc. Everything that is trivial today. But then, I remembered the fact that they don’t have families. They don’t have spouses. So…with a lack of family structure, I just don’t see how they would have the desire to go through that, just to pop out a kid that they won’t be responsible for caring for and loving anyway. Unless its for the good of the community, which I guess would make sense… I dunno. ANYWAY.
I can’t remember the exact quote, but at one point, Prot reveals that everyone at K-PAX has learned how to self-heal…thus eliminating the use of doctors, I would assume. Prot kind of takes it upon himself to start teaching the other patients in the mental hospital this tool and in very unorthodox ways, actually begins to help some of them heal. While Prot was helping out these patients by making them do the weirdest things and things they would normally never do…it really reminded me of how Jack Nicholson’s character helped out the patients in the mental hospital in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, similarly.
So, the one big question you are left with at the end of the movie, is whether or not Prot is an alien, or a human. We are told the story of Robert Porter, through Prot, while being hypnotized. Robert came home one day to find his family raped and murdered and attempted suicide in the river behind his home. Prot claims to have been friends with Robert Porter, and comes to earth whenever Robert needs him…however, being more logical, the doctor draws the conclusion that Prot is Robert Porters second personality…a personality that emerged after he failed his suicide attempt and needed to totally separate himself from earth. While this theory makes sense, we are still left to wonder how he was absolutely resistant to drugs, and how he escaped the hospital, and how he knew of solar systems that the greatest astronomers did not…
The way it ends…with Prot, or Robert, in a wheelchair, not talking…never talking according to the doctor…makes me lean towards believing he has a mental disorder. As much as I would love the alien…the fact that once his second personality was crushed, he is still distancing himself from the world in some way, kinda convinces me of that fact.
The acting was fairly good…Kevin Spacey stood out above the rest by just a bit…not as much as I expected. I think the whole him wearing glasses the whole time took away from the acting a bit, we didn’t get to see his eyes a whole lot...
7.4/10
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
So, this is a British crime movie…made in…I don’t know when and I’m not looking it up, I would guess…mid 90’s?
It’s about this group of four guys…they think, an easy way to earn some quick cash would be to gather up a whole shitload of money…I think it was like 100,000 pounds…and bet it on a card game. I have no idea what the card game is, because I am socially disabled and have absolutely no knowledge of that kinda stuff :P
Anyway, all you need to know, it the game was rigged, surprise surprise, and he ended up owing the guy half a million pound. Yes, dumbass…
So this guy goes back to his friends, and has to let em know that they now owe this guy, Harry (I think), half a million pounds in a week. So, this is serious shit. These guys probably sit around thinking of ideas for like three days, before they overhear their neighbors talking about how they’re going to rob these guys that grow weed. So, they’re brilliant, fail proof plan, is to then turn around and rob their neighbors when they come home from their own robbery.
So, we have three different groups here…and the movie jumps back and forth between the three of them…the drug dealers, the neighbors, the original group of idiots…oh, and Harry and his little posse too…
So, this thing gets started and its just…incredibly confusing haha…everyone has crazy accents, there were so many different characters, as you can see, I don’t remember any of their names…except for one, I remember Soap, cause he was funny looking anddd really paranoid. So, this money is being stolen from people back and forth, all over the place, people are shot, people are killed, people run away, meet up, exchange words, then die again…ughh so much happens…and it wasn’t until I gave up trying to keep track of everything and just sat back and took it in as a whole that I actually really started to enjoy it. I’m not sure if that’s what I was supposed to get out of it…but that’s what I did, and it made me really enjoy it.
So…favourite character…well, two of them, another two whose name I remember! Big Chris and Little Chris. Big Chris, the father, worked for Harry and it was his job to collect the money from the original group of four. Little Chris is his son and was almost always with him throughout the movie…
I liked both of them from the beginning, the seemed like the cutest thing ever! Once again, I’m not sure I was supposed to find them both adorable, but I did.
Then, they totally kick ass in the end and drive away with all the cash and a red sports car (:
The more I let this movie marinate in my mind…the more I liked it.
I’m actually glad that I waited months after seeing the movie to actually type up what I had thought about it, because once I let my mind just go, and started to lose all the details that I was focusing on, the big picture just became a whole shitload funnier.
Oh, and I loved the ending :P
I thought it was really funny…although the guys get ripped off when my Chris actually doesn’t return on the money to them, they realize that the guns they just sent one of the guys to dump in the water because they’re evidence, are worth an enormous amount of money. Movie ends with the guy, hanging over the edge of the bridge, one hand on the rail, keeping him from falling, the other hand holding the guns, and his cell in his mouth…and his cell rings. His friends calling him to tell him no to drop the guns…dun dun dunnn :P
8.3/10
It’s about this group of four guys…they think, an easy way to earn some quick cash would be to gather up a whole shitload of money…I think it was like 100,000 pounds…and bet it on a card game. I have no idea what the card game is, because I am socially disabled and have absolutely no knowledge of that kinda stuff :P
Anyway, all you need to know, it the game was rigged, surprise surprise, and he ended up owing the guy half a million pound. Yes, dumbass…
So this guy goes back to his friends, and has to let em know that they now owe this guy, Harry (I think), half a million pounds in a week. So, this is serious shit. These guys probably sit around thinking of ideas for like three days, before they overhear their neighbors talking about how they’re going to rob these guys that grow weed. So, they’re brilliant, fail proof plan, is to then turn around and rob their neighbors when they come home from their own robbery.
So, we have three different groups here…and the movie jumps back and forth between the three of them…the drug dealers, the neighbors, the original group of idiots…oh, and Harry and his little posse too…
So, this thing gets started and its just…incredibly confusing haha…everyone has crazy accents, there were so many different characters, as you can see, I don’t remember any of their names…except for one, I remember Soap, cause he was funny looking anddd really paranoid. So, this money is being stolen from people back and forth, all over the place, people are shot, people are killed, people run away, meet up, exchange words, then die again…ughh so much happens…and it wasn’t until I gave up trying to keep track of everything and just sat back and took it in as a whole that I actually really started to enjoy it. I’m not sure if that’s what I was supposed to get out of it…but that’s what I did, and it made me really enjoy it.
So…favourite character…well, two of them, another two whose name I remember! Big Chris and Little Chris. Big Chris, the father, worked for Harry and it was his job to collect the money from the original group of four. Little Chris is his son and was almost always with him throughout the movie…
I liked both of them from the beginning, the seemed like the cutest thing ever! Once again, I’m not sure I was supposed to find them both adorable, but I did.
Then, they totally kick ass in the end and drive away with all the cash and a red sports car (:
The more I let this movie marinate in my mind…the more I liked it.
I’m actually glad that I waited months after seeing the movie to actually type up what I had thought about it, because once I let my mind just go, and started to lose all the details that I was focusing on, the big picture just became a whole shitload funnier.
Oh, and I loved the ending :P
I thought it was really funny…although the guys get ripped off when my Chris actually doesn’t return on the money to them, they realize that the guns they just sent one of the guys to dump in the water because they’re evidence, are worth an enormous amount of money. Movie ends with the guy, hanging over the edge of the bridge, one hand on the rail, keeping him from falling, the other hand holding the guns, and his cell in his mouth…and his cell rings. His friends calling him to tell him no to drop the guns…dun dun dunnn :P
8.3/10
Blade Runner
Okay...so I have attempted to watch this movie before, but I wasn't quite...uhmm, there? You know...
So...I've had the tendancy to reply with a 'yes' when people ask if I've seen it, when in reality, I don't really think I could have a decent conversation about it...
Basically, it takes place around the year 2019 I believe…in this very futuristic, built up economy. The main character, Deckard, is a blade runner…someone who “retires” replicants. Replicants are these genetically engineered super humans, who mimic real humans almost perfectly. They appear to have accelerated abilities that most humans find enviable…strength, endurance etc. So, these replicants are banned from earth, and are only permitted for use on other planets for work purposes.
They are created with a four-year life span, to avoid them from developing potentially dangerous and strong emotions.
Four of these replicants have escaped to earth to confront the man who created them, about an extended life, as it seems their four-year expiry date was quickly approaching. Deckard, the best of the best when it comes to blade runners, has been pulled out of retirement to destroy these four replicants. This job takes him all over the city while he eliminates the replicants one by one, while simultaneously falling in love with a different, more complex replicant.
So this girl, this replicant, the one that Deckard falls in love with, has been built with the addition of real memories from a young girl growing up. Because of this, she isn’t aware at first that she is a replicant, and has more complex emotions than replicants normally would.
What I’m wondering is…what is the point of this four year life span if your idea of a development in the creation of replicants is giving them more complex feelings? The reason why they don’t let them live their potential life span out is fear of them accumulating too many thoughts, memories, and feelings…which, when mixed with a powerful individual could be dangerous. So, why supply a replicant with these thoughts and emotions that you’re trying to avoid them acquiring? My only thought is the fact that they can control what memories they are giving them? So, obviously they would be sure to not supply them with bitter memories…also, perhaps this was just an experiment? Actually, I know for a fact that it was an experiment, but I was under the impression that it was an experiment at the beginning of a possible movement, compared to a one time thing experiment.
I thought that the acting was decent…I’m not a huge fan of Harrison Ford…I haven’t seen him in anything that I thoroughly enjoyed…well, I think he was in Apocalypse Now…but I think he only had a small part :/ damn…I can’t even remember, that’s sad…
Anyway, no performances that stood out, but they weren’t terrible either.
I usually don’t like sci-fi movies very much…I mean, I think when they’re good, they can be really good. But on the whole, I find that they tend to always end up just being the typical ‘good vs. evil’ some spaceships, explosions…all that…
What I really liked about this movie was it had a lot more to it…it had this society totally shaped by technology…and using it to replace human beings with something that appears to lack what makes a human human…given that, it also brings up what it is to be human. A little cliché, but the creation comes back to bite the creator in the ass, and the big ‘Is Deckard a replicant?’ question.
I’d like to think so. I think that it would be neat. Although, I would assume, Deckard being this super kick ass replicant killer, that he would be aware, well, I’m sure he’s aware, that the replicants don’t have memories from before they were created because…well, they weren’t created…
And this whole inputting memories into a replicant to make them more human seems to be a new thing, so, I’m not entirely sure how it would be possible…but I think it would be neat if he was.
On the whole, I have to say I was slightly disappointed. It could be partly to the fact that this isn’t the genre of movies I tend to enjoy, I did find myself slightly bored at times, and I did have many people telling me how really great this movie was. Maybe my expectations were set too high? I’m not sure. It was definitely a good movie though.
One thing I did notice about the book though…is that the author reprinted the novel with the title Blade Runner!? (As opposed to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) I found that really weird…and it kinda bothered me :/
I don’t like how the author would change the name of his book…to associate it with a movie…which, ultimately is someone elses interpretation of what he’s made…right? I dunno…
I’ve seen a lot of writers try and put as much distance between their books and the films based on them as possible, and to me, that makes a whole lot more sense.
7.8/10
So...I've had the tendancy to reply with a 'yes' when people ask if I've seen it, when in reality, I don't really think I could have a decent conversation about it...
Basically, it takes place around the year 2019 I believe…in this very futuristic, built up economy. The main character, Deckard, is a blade runner…someone who “retires” replicants. Replicants are these genetically engineered super humans, who mimic real humans almost perfectly. They appear to have accelerated abilities that most humans find enviable…strength, endurance etc. So, these replicants are banned from earth, and are only permitted for use on other planets for work purposes.
They are created with a four-year life span, to avoid them from developing potentially dangerous and strong emotions.
Four of these replicants have escaped to earth to confront the man who created them, about an extended life, as it seems their four-year expiry date was quickly approaching. Deckard, the best of the best when it comes to blade runners, has been pulled out of retirement to destroy these four replicants. This job takes him all over the city while he eliminates the replicants one by one, while simultaneously falling in love with a different, more complex replicant.
So this girl, this replicant, the one that Deckard falls in love with, has been built with the addition of real memories from a young girl growing up. Because of this, she isn’t aware at first that she is a replicant, and has more complex emotions than replicants normally would.
What I’m wondering is…what is the point of this four year life span if your idea of a development in the creation of replicants is giving them more complex feelings? The reason why they don’t let them live their potential life span out is fear of them accumulating too many thoughts, memories, and feelings…which, when mixed with a powerful individual could be dangerous. So, why supply a replicant with these thoughts and emotions that you’re trying to avoid them acquiring? My only thought is the fact that they can control what memories they are giving them? So, obviously they would be sure to not supply them with bitter memories…also, perhaps this was just an experiment? Actually, I know for a fact that it was an experiment, but I was under the impression that it was an experiment at the beginning of a possible movement, compared to a one time thing experiment.
I thought that the acting was decent…I’m not a huge fan of Harrison Ford…I haven’t seen him in anything that I thoroughly enjoyed…well, I think he was in Apocalypse Now…but I think he only had a small part :/ damn…I can’t even remember, that’s sad…
Anyway, no performances that stood out, but they weren’t terrible either.
I usually don’t like sci-fi movies very much…I mean, I think when they’re good, they can be really good. But on the whole, I find that they tend to always end up just being the typical ‘good vs. evil’ some spaceships, explosions…all that…
What I really liked about this movie was it had a lot more to it…it had this society totally shaped by technology…and using it to replace human beings with something that appears to lack what makes a human human…given that, it also brings up what it is to be human. A little cliché, but the creation comes back to bite the creator in the ass, and the big ‘Is Deckard a replicant?’ question.
I’d like to think so. I think that it would be neat. Although, I would assume, Deckard being this super kick ass replicant killer, that he would be aware, well, I’m sure he’s aware, that the replicants don’t have memories from before they were created because…well, they weren’t created…
And this whole inputting memories into a replicant to make them more human seems to be a new thing, so, I’m not entirely sure how it would be possible…but I think it would be neat if he was.
On the whole, I have to say I was slightly disappointed. It could be partly to the fact that this isn’t the genre of movies I tend to enjoy, I did find myself slightly bored at times, and I did have many people telling me how really great this movie was. Maybe my expectations were set too high? I’m not sure. It was definitely a good movie though.
One thing I did notice about the book though…is that the author reprinted the novel with the title Blade Runner!? (As opposed to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) I found that really weird…and it kinda bothered me :/
I don’t like how the author would change the name of his book…to associate it with a movie…which, ultimately is someone elses interpretation of what he’s made…right? I dunno…
I’ve seen a lot of writers try and put as much distance between their books and the films based on them as possible, and to me, that makes a whole lot more sense.
7.8/10
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich
soo...this movie was written by the same guy who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...which I can kinda see
John Cusacks character is this unemployed pupeteer who desperately needs a job and gets one at this random company on floor seven and a half...
On that floor he finds this portal that leads him into John malkovich's head, seeing through his eyes.
He makes it an attraction sorta thing with a fellow co-worker...and basically there is this huge love...square? Between cusack, his wife, his female co-worker and malkovich
Cameron Diaz plays Craig (Cusack) wife...and she is almost unrecognizable!! Her hair is a complete wreck, her clothing is old and worn and baggy...she looks nothing like she usually does, but her acting still isn't so hot.
The acting quality that I was impressed with was John Malkovich (:
I thought he did a fantastic job...especially while acting struggling to keep his consiousness it was good.
One of my favourite scenes was when malkovich goes into his own portal and it's a worl of malkovich...kinda creepy really weird lol
I also thought the chimps flashback to her "troubled childhood" that was mentioned so frequently was quite neat too.
You have to admit, the idea of being in someone elses head, seeing and hearing what they do, has crossed everyones mind.
So, the idea, the concept is there...but I felt like it was missing something.
I felt like o wanted more background, or I wanted it to go farther, prove something, make me think, question, something...anything!
But that's where it fell flat for me.
Solid movie. Unique idea. Decent acting...but the wtf/wow factor wasn't there...I wasn't terribly impressed
worth seeing though (:
but I wouldn't purchase it...that's just me
6.5/10
soo...this movie was written by the same guy who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...which I can kinda see
John Cusacks character is this unemployed pupeteer who desperately needs a job and gets one at this random company on floor seven and a half...
On that floor he finds this portal that leads him into John malkovich's head, seeing through his eyes.
He makes it an attraction sorta thing with a fellow co-worker...and basically there is this huge love...square? Between cusack, his wife, his female co-worker and malkovich
Cameron Diaz plays Craig (Cusack) wife...and she is almost unrecognizable!! Her hair is a complete wreck, her clothing is old and worn and baggy...she looks nothing like she usually does, but her acting still isn't so hot.
The acting quality that I was impressed with was John Malkovich (:
I thought he did a fantastic job...especially while acting struggling to keep his consiousness it was good.
One of my favourite scenes was when malkovich goes into his own portal and it's a worl of malkovich...kinda creepy really weird lol
I also thought the chimps flashback to her "troubled childhood" that was mentioned so frequently was quite neat too.
You have to admit, the idea of being in someone elses head, seeing and hearing what they do, has crossed everyones mind.
So, the idea, the concept is there...but I felt like it was missing something.
I felt like o wanted more background, or I wanted it to go farther, prove something, make me think, question, something...anything!
But that's where it fell flat for me.
Solid movie. Unique idea. Decent acting...but the wtf/wow factor wasn't there...I wasn't terribly impressed
worth seeing though (:
but I wouldn't purchase it...that's just me
6.5/10
Eraserhead
It's another one by David Lynch, made innn... mid 70's I think?
Anyway. It's filmed all in black and white, and revolves around this man, Henry. Henry lives in this town...all industrialized...tons of big buildings and smoke and machines and noise. He goes over to his girlfriend's, Mary (I think :/), house and is having dinner with her family...which includes a rather bizarre chicken carving scene, I have to bring up . Afterwards, we find out that Mary is pregnant, the result of which is the two living together in Henry's home, and Mary giving birth...to a mutant baby. After the baby is born we are just thrown into this totally confusing and beyond weird story of cackaling mutant babies, a woman in the radiator, and people using brain matter to make pencil erasers? yah...definately not fucked up
So...the way I kinda wrapped up and interpreted what I was watching was it was representing Henry's descent into madness and delusion...maybe.
Okay, so this is what I'm thinking...First of all...I don't see how Henry can be truly happy with the life he is leading...he lives in this polluted, noisy, industrial town...doing a shitty, repetative job in this surrounding that is continually emitting loud, annoying noises...Is there any way a human being can be even moderately sane while having to endure that? Actually, I'm going to correct myself...I said before I don't think that Henry is truly happy...but I'm going to go with, I don't think Henry is in any way emotionally sane.
So...now, the lady in the radiator. I'm thinking ultimately, she represents the madness, insanity, delusion...wherever Henry is headed. This radiator...once again, another element of this film that is emitting this loud constant noise-- actually...isn't there a mental disorder that can result from being exposed to loud, constant noises? I'm not sure...
Anyway, that would make sense. She is the product of the radiator...the radiator is producing noise, noise is causing Henry to be delerious?
It seems to me as though she is urging him to destroy the mutant baby? There is one scene where I’m not sure if it is supposed to be fetuses or sperm or something…falling onto this stage where the lady in the radiator is dancing, and she crushes them…she stomps on them, destroying what is essentially his offspring? In one form or another?
So, now this baby has got to represent something evil…sin…something like that. But I feel like it’s the evil/sin that is within Henry? Multiple times throughout the film, the mutant baby’s head appears as Henry’s own…Henry is eventually compelled to cut open the bandages that surround the baby. Is he now deciding to explore his own self? His own sin? Deciding to tear down those emotional walls that are preventing him from seeing it?
So he does, he rips open the bandages and he finds this revolting looking inside… after staring in disgust at the insides of his baby, he stabs and cuts and destroys the inside of it. Shortly after, he finds himself back with the lady in the radiator…soo…he destroys his sins? And gives in to delirium? A world where he has no sin?
I have no idea
Anyway, I think I’ve rambled for long enough…
I also thought the dream sequence where his head like pops off…and like sinks into a puddle of blood and that boy takes it to the pencil factory kinda thing to be made into eraser was so bizarre! I loved it…it deserved an honourable mention (:
Great movie…honestly, one of my favourite…Definitely my favourite of what I’ve seen from David Lynch…
This is rare…and totally against my nature, but…
9.9/10
just couldn’t do the whole 10/10 thing…
Anyway. It's filmed all in black and white, and revolves around this man, Henry. Henry lives in this town...all industrialized...tons of big buildings and smoke and machines and noise. He goes over to his girlfriend's, Mary (I think :/), house and is having dinner with her family...which includes a rather bizarre chicken carving scene, I have to bring up . Afterwards, we find out that Mary is pregnant, the result of which is the two living together in Henry's home, and Mary giving birth...to a mutant baby. After the baby is born we are just thrown into this totally confusing and beyond weird story of cackaling mutant babies, a woman in the radiator, and people using brain matter to make pencil erasers? yah...definately not fucked up
So...the way I kinda wrapped up and interpreted what I was watching was it was representing Henry's descent into madness and delusion...maybe.
Okay, so this is what I'm thinking...First of all...I don't see how Henry can be truly happy with the life he is leading...he lives in this polluted, noisy, industrial town...doing a shitty, repetative job in this surrounding that is continually emitting loud, annoying noises...Is there any way a human being can be even moderately sane while having to endure that? Actually, I'm going to correct myself...I said before I don't think that Henry is truly happy...but I'm going to go with, I don't think Henry is in any way emotionally sane.
So...now, the lady in the radiator. I'm thinking ultimately, she represents the madness, insanity, delusion...wherever Henry is headed. This radiator...once again, another element of this film that is emitting this loud constant noise-- actually...isn't there a mental disorder that can result from being exposed to loud, constant noises? I'm not sure...
Anyway, that would make sense. She is the product of the radiator...the radiator is producing noise, noise is causing Henry to be delerious?
It seems to me as though she is urging him to destroy the mutant baby? There is one scene where I’m not sure if it is supposed to be fetuses or sperm or something…falling onto this stage where the lady in the radiator is dancing, and she crushes them…she stomps on them, destroying what is essentially his offspring? In one form or another?
So, now this baby has got to represent something evil…sin…something like that. But I feel like it’s the evil/sin that is within Henry? Multiple times throughout the film, the mutant baby’s head appears as Henry’s own…Henry is eventually compelled to cut open the bandages that surround the baby. Is he now deciding to explore his own self? His own sin? Deciding to tear down those emotional walls that are preventing him from seeing it?
So he does, he rips open the bandages and he finds this revolting looking inside… after staring in disgust at the insides of his baby, he stabs and cuts and destroys the inside of it. Shortly after, he finds himself back with the lady in the radiator…soo…he destroys his sins? And gives in to delirium? A world where he has no sin?
I have no idea
Anyway, I think I’ve rambled for long enough…
I also thought the dream sequence where his head like pops off…and like sinks into a puddle of blood and that boy takes it to the pencil factory kinda thing to be made into eraser was so bizarre! I loved it…it deserved an honourable mention (:
Great movie…honestly, one of my favourite…Definitely my favourite of what I’ve seen from David Lynch…
This is rare…and totally against my nature, but…
9.9/10
just couldn’t do the whole 10/10 thing…
The Beach
The Beach
so, this is another one directed by Danny Boyle, and based on a book by Alex Garland...yet another book on my impossibly long list of books to read.
Main character is Richard, played by Leonardo Dicaprio. Now, Richard went to...Tailand I think (yah, I know, I butchered that country's name) to escape I guess you could say...trying to find himself.
He comes accross this guy in a hotel, who gives him a map to basically the best island ever, except in slightly more intelligent phrasing.
So, Richard hooks up with another couple ans they go to this island.
As promised, the beach they find is paradise, with a small community of people living there who are sick of the worlds bullshit.
And that's where I'll stop...
I think the movie was trying to prove a point about people being consumers something like that...but I thought they spent too much time setting it up.
A big chunk of the movie was just showcasing the fantastic life that those who live on the beach lead. And that can work with some movies, but if your goig to spend that much time building a setting up like that, you have to really fuck it up ans tear it apart afterwards to make it affective...and this one didn't.
It did prove that there is really no such thing as a flawless paradise. Someone will always be unhappy, someone will always want something they can't have. It's human nature. When Richard is going back to the main land he collects some of the most outrageous requests for things to bring back from people...who aren't happy with civilization, yet still dependant and craving what it produces :/
I think you pretty much conclude that it's impossible to achieve paradise, because anytime you find one, basically the presence of a human being transforms the paradise into something selfish and unpure...what else is new?
Anyway, this movie really wasn't as bad as I was expecting...saying that, it wasn't good either...it was okay, entertaining...
most people I have talked to have read the book though, so my opinion on it may change once I read the book...maybe I'll realize it had way more potential? I'm not sure...
6.5/10
so, this is another one directed by Danny Boyle, and based on a book by Alex Garland...yet another book on my impossibly long list of books to read.
Main character is Richard, played by Leonardo Dicaprio. Now, Richard went to...Tailand I think (yah, I know, I butchered that country's name) to escape I guess you could say...trying to find himself.
He comes accross this guy in a hotel, who gives him a map to basically the best island ever, except in slightly more intelligent phrasing.
So, Richard hooks up with another couple ans they go to this island.
As promised, the beach they find is paradise, with a small community of people living there who are sick of the worlds bullshit.
And that's where I'll stop...
I think the movie was trying to prove a point about people being consumers something like that...but I thought they spent too much time setting it up.
A big chunk of the movie was just showcasing the fantastic life that those who live on the beach lead. And that can work with some movies, but if your goig to spend that much time building a setting up like that, you have to really fuck it up ans tear it apart afterwards to make it affective...and this one didn't.
It did prove that there is really no such thing as a flawless paradise. Someone will always be unhappy, someone will always want something they can't have. It's human nature. When Richard is going back to the main land he collects some of the most outrageous requests for things to bring back from people...who aren't happy with civilization, yet still dependant and craving what it produces :/
I think you pretty much conclude that it's impossible to achieve paradise, because anytime you find one, basically the presence of a human being transforms the paradise into something selfish and unpure...what else is new?
Anyway, this movie really wasn't as bad as I was expecting...saying that, it wasn't good either...it was okay, entertaining...
most people I have talked to have read the book though, so my opinion on it may change once I read the book...maybe I'll realize it had way more potential? I'm not sure...
6.5/10
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