Teeth Breaking
Jun. 22nd, 2006 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kneeshooterThis was just going to be a post about Hard Candy, but I've somewhat been put off my stride by watching the opening credits to UFO and noticing an apostrophe crime. I can even forgive the clouds of smoke generated from the "underwater" SKYDIVER, but not a misplaced '.
Oh well.
Anyway, teeth crackingly good sweets. If you haven't seen it then do. If you are attached to your testicles then think slightly more carefully, then go anyway. It's not an easy or pleasant film to watch and in many ways is an "almost ran" rather than truly brilliant but it does show how cinema can be done.
The acting is excellent, the storyline is intriguing (rather than engaging) but at the end it throws it all away. I put this down to an american desire for ultimate Black and White over ambiguity and a need for closure. It would have been much braver and more to my taste, if not as neat and tidy, if there had been anagoresis rather than justified righteousness in the final scene.
If that doesn't make sense - go and see the film; if it does - do you agree?
Oh well.
Anyway, teeth crackingly good sweets. If you haven't seen it then do. If you are attached to your testicles then think slightly more carefully, then go anyway. It's not an easy or pleasant film to watch and in many ways is an "almost ran" rather than truly brilliant but it does show how cinema can be done.
The acting is excellent, the storyline is intriguing (rather than engaging) but at the end it throws it all away. I put this down to an american desire for ultimate Black and White over ambiguity and a need for closure. It would have been much braver and more to my taste, if not as neat and tidy, if there had been anagoresis rather than justified righteousness in the final scene.
If that doesn't make sense - go and see the film; if it does - do you agree?
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Date: 2006-06-22 09:16 pm (UTC)How's that for trivia!
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Date: 2006-06-22 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-22 09:36 pm (UTC)Was very good though, with added amusement coming from
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Date: 2006-06-22 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 03:24 pm (UTC)P.S. I think If i was only using an ice pack Im SURE i would notice.
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Date: 2006-06-22 09:54 pm (UTC)I take it you mean:
MAINTAINING SCAN FOR UFO'S
Actually, I think this was probably considered valid written English in 1970. Y'see, it's a plural of an acronym, and I'm pretty sure popular opinion has changed on this over the years, from using an apostrophe to not using one. I'm sure I was taught at secondary school to use one. I still do sometimes: "he sent some SMSs" looks so ugly...
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Date: 2006-06-22 10:27 pm (UTC)Having watched Episode 1 (of an 8GB download) I was partly amused and partly shocked by the terrible sexism and sleaziness of some of the major characters. They wouldn't make it like that these days!
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Date: 2006-06-23 05:10 am (UTC)Oh yes. Alec Freeman letches over female characters throughout. He's my hero :-) There's all that smoking and drinking too.
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Date: 2006-06-23 08:27 am (UTC)Not sure I fancy Hard Candy, but the desire for black and white is an imperative in most folk/allegorical/myth based tales to justify existance in a scary world where humans can just 'stop' for no reason and where lightening strikes. Sorry this is the abridged version of a sensible comment, I'm tired.
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Date: 2006-06-23 09:06 am (UTC)Comment is sensible enough :-)
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Date: 2006-06-23 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 09:07 am (UTC)