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mothwingI love our Blockbuster movie rental thing. Nothing is better than finding three DVDs in your post! So many nice movies!
To make good use of the nice weather outside, Crocky and I went to the movies yesterday. It's really a shame, Crocky's hayfever is acting up again and since there is grass everywhere, it's an ordeal for her to spend time outside. I wish the hayfever relief tablets would do their job properly so we could go hiking!
Sunshine makes it worse, so it our picnic in the Kelvingrove Park had to be rather short. To do something with the day, we walked down to the lovely cinema on the other side of the Clyde and watched Hard Candy. Woooooow. What a movie.
We had a lovely walk home through dark Glasgow. And Julez is right, it is scary out there. We had to cross a large, empty parking lot where a gang of drunken youths were hanging around. They were acting strange, obviously drunk and closer to us than I would have liked. I was a bit scared of them, up until the point when one of them broke down with loud, chest racking sobs and the others had to comfort him. Phew, safe.
There were a lot of strange folk around today, though, starting with a man who came up to us in the park and asked if we could give him a packet of hankies because a group of youngsters had just smacked him and given him a nosebleed. Ok, Kelvingrove Park is not as nice as I always thought. Well - nor is the inner city, there were more ladies of negotiable affection around than I have seen during the whole year here, and even the odd couple shagging away in a doorway.
What is summer doing to this city?
To make good use of the nice weather outside, Crocky and I went to the movies yesterday. It's really a shame, Crocky's hayfever is acting up again and since there is grass everywhere, it's an ordeal for her to spend time outside. I wish the hayfever relief tablets would do their job properly so we could go hiking!
Sunshine makes it worse, so it our picnic in the Kelvingrove Park had to be rather short. To do something with the day, we walked down to the lovely cinema on the other side of the Clyde and watched Hard Candy. Woooooow. What a movie.
We had a lovely walk home through dark Glasgow. And Julez is right, it is scary out there. We had to cross a large, empty parking lot where a gang of drunken youths were hanging around. They were acting strange, obviously drunk and closer to us than I would have liked. I was a bit scared of them, up until the point when one of them broke down with loud, chest racking sobs and the others had to comfort him. Phew, safe.
There were a lot of strange folk around today, though, starting with a man who came up to us in the park and asked if we could give him a packet of hankies because a group of youngsters had just smacked him and given him a nosebleed. Ok, Kelvingrove Park is not as nice as I always thought. Well - nor is the inner city, there were more ladies of negotiable affection around than I have seen during the whole year here, and even the odd couple shagging away in a doorway.
What is summer doing to this city?
Hard Candy
This is one of the best films I've seen this year. The acting of Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page is absolutely fantastic and breathtaking to the last minute, their characters are greatly interesting and although Hayley in particular may be just a little hard to get, she is nonetheless absolutely fabulous - so is her counterpart, Jeffrey. Well, that was to be expected. Just look at that poster. Wow.
This is one of the best films I've seen this year. The acting of Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page is absolutely fantastic and breathtaking to the last minute, their characters are greatly interesting and although Hayley in particular may be just a little hard to get, she is nonetheless absolutely fabulous - so is her counterpart, Jeffrey. Well, that was to be expected. Just look at that poster. Wow.
Oh, it's about 14-year old Hayley meets Jeffrey (32), a photographer, over the internet. After three weeks of chatting they want to meet irl in a cafe, but in the end they do drive home to Jeff's, because he has an MP3 of a concert Hayley would have loved to go to she desparately wants to listen to. Once home, Hailey drugs Jeffrey and ties him to a chair. Hayley is convinced that he is not only a paedophile, but also the murderer of a missing girl. During the next hours, Hayley uses all kinds of psychological tricks to force him into confessing the crime while Jeffrey swears he is innocent over and over again.
The tension between the two is absolutely unbelievable, to the last minute, although the end is a little disappointing because there is less information than I would have liked.
I don't get the rating, which is 18 over here. I am really very squeamish, but there is really no reason why this film should be for 18 year olds only. Comparing to the standards, there would not be any harm in rating it PG13 or something.
There is virtually no violence, only very implied sexual content which happened before the beginning of the movie plot, no offensive language at all. We have seen beheadings and torture in telly since we were 15, various decaying zombies, war movies in which hundreds were left shredded on the battle fields of the world - but there is just no violence in this movie. Closer also got an 18 rating, which makes sense because there is potentially really offensive language all over the place and pole dancing. Nothing of the sort in Hard Candy.
The only thing people might potentially find disturbing is a forced quasi-suicide at the end and the castration - which are both not shown, but since when are we interested in implied evils?
Hm, maybe paraphilias? It might be arguable that the film is filled with sexual tension for BDSM fans, not because of the paedophilia, of course, but because of tied-up and castrated Jeff. But the general ratings never, ever take these things into account, so I don't see why they should now.
Maybe its to keep people from getting the idea that they ought to set out and do the same, as it looks rather easy in the film what Hailey does.
Lilies
Beautiful movie about the confession of a gay man who has been in jail for murder for the last twenty years. Once the person he specifically wanted to make this dying confession to is in the jail, however, the murderer, with the help of the other gay men, lock in the clergyman and force him to watch a re-enactment of the proceedings which happened twenty years earlier and led to the arresting of the murderer.
Beautiful movie about the confession of a gay man who has been in jail for murder for the last twenty years. Once the person he specifically wanted to make this dying confession to is in the jail, however, the murderer, with the help of the other gay men, lock in the clergyman and force him to watch a re-enactment of the proceedings which happened twenty years earlier and led to the arresting of the murderer.
Maybe it's because I am a sucker for love triangles. This movie is great, although when I watched it the first time, I found it confusing that the male prisoners play female parts. It's obvious now, but since the change of scenes is complete apart from the actors being male, it took me a minute or so ("Huh? I wonder if he knows that his mother is a man in drag...")
Sky Blue
And I always hate animated movie, but this one is fabulous. Ok, so the story is a lame and leaves many questions unanswered, and they somehow can do all these amazing landscapes and leave the people in the well-known anime style, right down to the strange facial expressions and movements I have never seen anyone do in my life. Apart from those, it is just soooo beautiful. Maybe it's Il Won's great score, maybe it's the fact that I seriously digged the white ponytail of one of the protagonists, but it's just such a beautifully made movie.
And I always hate animated movie, but this one is fabulous. Ok, so the story is a lame and leaves many questions unanswered, and they somehow can do all these amazing landscapes and leave the people in the well-known anime style, right down to the strange facial expressions and movements I have never seen anyone do in my life. Apart from those, it is just soooo beautiful. Maybe it's Il Won's great score, maybe it's the fact that I seriously digged the white ponytail of one of the protagonists, but it's just such a beautifully made movie.
The Exhibition Centre around midnight...
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Date: Monday, June 26th, 2006 08:46 pm (UTC)Absolutely love the pictures! You're such a great photographer! So many shiny lights *g*
My sympathies to Crocky, hayfever sucks.
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Date: Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 03:04 pm (UTC)I'll tell her! :)
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Date: Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 03:02 pm (UTC)I'll really miss those things when I get back home. Must look for something similar over there...
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