Journal mekkab's Journal: Weekend Netflix redux 6
The Village: thank god my wife snuck it on the queue. This was a fun-ass movie. A period piece, a hero quest (with a blind girl as the hero), a commentary on communes and the base nature of greed within humans, and just a little bit of spooky thrown in. All of you who said it sucked are stupid. Like, totally! And the moment I saw the red-cloaks I fell in love. I now know what my halloween costume will be next year!
Through a Glass Darkly: I was soo not feeling this movie. What is it with "auteurs" throwing incest into a movie for no apparent reason?! Does this make them edgy? Worst place. Whats-her-faces physical performance of her hallucinations was cool. Winter Light is up for next week. Lets hope for better.
Tipping The Velvet: You can't go wrong with olde timey lesbians. There were parts where it was good, which is probably a reflection of the book. There were parts where it was cheesy, probably a reflection of the adapters (this was a bbc telly series).
Through the Glass Darkly (Score:2)
Through the Glass Darkly is about exploitation of the weak fed from a naive notion of altruism. The incest part is probably the one that is the most forced. Of course I can't reme
Re:Through the Glass Darkly (Score:1)
Ahhh, it did. Thanks. Doesn't make it allright, but at least it makes it understandable.
Glad to hear Winter Light gets better.
The Village aka The Scary Door (Score:2)
Re:The Village aka The Scary Door (Score:1)
b-b-b-b-but there was something else to that movie; perhaps the performance of the ensemble cast? perhaps the music, the cinematography, the bottle of wine we had just drank... whatever it was. Something about it did not penetrate the suspension-of-disbelief barrier; FOR ME (and me alone (well, my wife too)) I was perfectl
Re:The Village aka The Scary Door (Score:1)
Tipping the velvet (Score:2)