Monday, December 12, 2005

Many movies, many weekends later

Haven't got myself to this corner of my life for over a month, so there's a long list to be covered. Don't remember all but top-of mind are:
I love Huckabees: wierd
Me and you and everybody we know: more wierd
Harry potter and the goblets of fire: quite a letdown i thought
memento: whoa! If somebody said gajini has been inspired by this i'll slap them. Gajini is more like a crude insulting parody. To see an experiment like this and not understand the essence of the attempt and lift a few devices is pathetic. The movie(if i can call that) is more experiential design than narrative. It should be called immersive design. Getting into the mind of a short-term memory loss patient and seeing the movie like how he faces reality is the sort of idea moviemaking was made for. But unfortunately, the human mind has been conditioned to seek meaning and everybodys been unravelling the plot, dissecting the charecters for years now. One decent soul, a film student has even published an essay on how the audience should watch this movie. In my opinion the movie should be watched once in a theatre preferably with no remote at hand and should linger ambiguously in your memory.
CRAZY : wow! This is my kinda crazy! A canadian-french movie that traces the life of an average family through all the ups and downs that history itself witnessedas fashions changed, cultures merged and the family turned out to be the only safe place. And what styling!

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