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Well, my computer and internet going will be sporadic in the near future. On a completely unrelated note, what computing I do comes with the interesting new challenge of wrist braces. My doctor gave them to me when I mentioned wrist pain, and they seem to help. They're quite comfortable. The challenge lies in the bottom of the braces, where my wrists usually rest on the keyboard, slide around on the plastic, and don't quite stay the way skin does. So I end up overcompensating when I move my hands to reach for farther outlying keys.

I watches two movies recently.

The Triplets of Belleville -

Okay, this was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Right up there with Being John Malcovich (but better). The animation was fascinating and at times (the scenery, the cityscapes, the mechanical designs, the color), positively gorgeous. The exaggerated style of it, however, both turned me off and turned me onto it. In objects and setting the exaggeration was fascinating-- the very tall and skinny ships, for example. But on the characters it was weird and frequently grotesque. Also, kind of funny (the mafia box-shouldered guys, for example.)

There were no subtitles... but then there was almost no dialogue. Just two lines in the beginning and one in the end, and those were in English. But even without dialogue, it was fairly easy to follow. Weird, but eventually one catches on.

It was very funny. Sometimes almsot horribly slow, but the funny parts were funny. Like the pet dog, and the dinner frogs. Overall, I reccomend renting it. If only for the amazingly stylish presentation.


Secret Window -

For some reason, this movie never worked for me. I mean, technically it did everything right-- Johnny Depp was good, the other actors were good, the direction was good, the dialogue was good.

But really, I never cared about Depp's character. I never got emotionally invested in him. And as such, the scary parts weren't that scary, and at many points I could predict where it was going. I never got really emotionally involved, and therefore the film was mostly a disappointment.

But, it wasn't a bad movie, not really. See my first paragraph. It's just that it didn't do it for me and therefore I can't reccomend it. Well---let's jsut say I would get it if one could borrow it from a friend, or on a Netflix kind of service, but I wouldn't pay more than 5 dollars to rent or buy it unless you're a big fan of Johnny Depp or the director.

Identity is a much better horror movie of the psycho-killer theme to come out in the last 2 or 3 years. WARNING: EVIL SPOILERS FOR IDENTITY IN COMMENTS BELOW.

Comments

Secret Window

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

You put my feelings on that flick into the words I could never find.

Re: Secret Window

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

ah. that's good then.

Hey, did you get the FMA cds I sent out yet?

Re: Secret Window

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Mmm hmm. Announced it in my LJ on ... Saturday, I think. I know your Net time's been sporadic lately, so. I haven't had the chance to watch any of it, though. I've worked all weekend. Ugh. Thanks for them!

Re: Secret Window

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Sure thing.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I loved Identity regardless of the fact that I think I figured it out about fifteen minutes in.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

15 minutes in you realized it was all fake and part of the delusion in the one guys mind? Or just that it was all fake? Was it when the kid died with the girl? and they only got one tag? I started to have suspicions about the overall plot about 2/3 in, maybe a half hour before it was actually revealed. There were just too many weird things going on.

I loved that movie too. I think I'll buy it at some point. I loved how big themes and sneaky little details all had to do with "identity"-- who is who and what is what. I even made a list off the top of my head when I first watched it.

The cast was just fabulous though. And it was so frelling funny. Like Larry startign to check people in because people just assumed he was the check-in guy.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I figured they were all a delusion almost immediately, because I couldn't come up with a way either storyline could be related otherwise. And as for the kid, he was easy. When they only got one tag, it was obvious one of them was still alive, and for a horror story, it was creepier if it was the kid. Plus, with all of those references to the killer's mother dying when he was younger, that was a big tipoff the kid was the killer.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I figured they were all a delusion almost immediately, because I couldn't come up with a way either storyline could be related otherwise

For that I bought into the illusion that the prisoner they were transporting was that prisoner, all the way up until they revealed it wasn't.

The kid I suspected early on was supernatural thing, like a demon or something, because kids are frequently evil in horror movies, and as you pointed out-- it's creepier that way.

What I really loved about Identity overall was that the whole thing was like a big joke about the horror genre. Like "these murder movie cliche situations could only happen in the mind of a crazy person because they're absurd when you think about them."