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potted_music at 08:59pm on 29/10/2012
potted_music at 08:59pm on 29/10/2012All my European friends are joyfully watching Skyfall. Why does the USian premiere lag so far behind? I want my dollop of glamourized on-screen violence, like, right this moment.
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Watched Seven Psychopaths. I'm very much in love with In Bruges, which is as close to cinematographic perfection (in my opinion) as they get: the way all elements click together like proverbial pieces of a puzzle (the coins, omg, the coins ;____;), cautious balancing between utter kitsch and punch-in-the-gut emotional honesty, etc. I hoped I would like 7P (+ I'm automatically predisposed to like stories about storytelling), but it was, in my opinion, basically McDonagh jerking off to the sound of how awesome he is. And, yeah, well, it is very important to have a recognizable narrative voice, but his self-quotations felt bland and self-indulgent.
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Also, OMG the latest installment of "Lizzie Bennett Diaries"!!! Cannot wait for updates, need them now!
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Watched Seven Psychopaths. I'm very much in love with In Bruges, which is as close to cinematographic perfection (in my opinion) as they get: the way all elements click together like proverbial pieces of a puzzle (the coins, omg, the coins ;____;), cautious balancing between utter kitsch and punch-in-the-gut emotional honesty, etc. I hoped I would like 7P (+ I'm automatically predisposed to like stories about storytelling), but it was, in my opinion, basically McDonagh jerking off to the sound of how awesome he is. And, yeah, well, it is very important to have a recognizable narrative voice, but his self-quotations felt bland and self-indulgent.
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Also, OMG the latest installment of "Lizzie Bennett Diaries"!!! Cannot wait for updates, need them now!
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Hmmm, let me think. What made In Bruges work for me is this combination of over-the-top kitsch with a, basically, tragic (in the older sense of inevitability of fate, not in the sense of "ripped my heart out") plot, told with a very straight face. Also, I liked their take on religious imagery: for all my agnosticism, I like contemporary trashy retellings of Christian topoi. So, I'm thinking about similarities along those lines.
* Revengers Tragedy: kind of visually similar, with very careful scenography&composition of each shot + it's campy post-apocalyptic remake of a Jacobean tragedy (with most lines left in their original form).
* Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence: VERY hit-or-miss, and yet I think it's my favourite movie of all times. The basic plot: a Christ figure lands in a Japanese POW camp during WW II. He is played by David Bowie. And the movie stars his Japanese glam-rock counterpart Ryuichi Sakamoto. (Visually different from Bruges - more subdued, I think - yet something in the way it plays out feels similar.)
Do you have any recommendations?