International Rec a Movie Day (from ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Sep. 17th, 2004 01:35 pmtimepiececlockInternational Rec a Movie Day
Perfect Blue (1997) - a horror/myster/suspence/slasher movie that will cure you forever of the idea that animated films internationally are as kiddish as animated films in America. I reccomend having something to munch on when you watch, or at least a pillow to hold. It has a slow opening, but once you're into it, it starts to become kind of fascinating, and then it becomes kind of unnerving, and by the end you're left feeling icky and creeped out and blinking a lot and going, "Damn. Well. Damn. That was different." Which is how all suspence films should leave you feeling.
Pleasantville (1998) - Many of you have already seen this, but I feel it's worth reccing again. This film is a work of art in terms of visual design-- it's fantastically beautiful to watch. The concept of the film is simple: take two modern high shcool siblings and transport them into the imaginary 1950s suburbia of old television shows. It could almost be a Mary-Sue fic from Leave It To Beaver fandom (if such a fandom exists). It could be an adventure, and stop there. It could be a story about the kids learning to appreciate the real family they have over the plastic family of television, and stop there. But the movie *doesn't* stop there. It takes the scientific truth that you can't study something without changing it, and adds the romantic truth that a life that's not colorful (in all meanings of the phrase) is not life at all.
Perfect Blue (1997) - a horror/myster/suspence/slasher movie that will cure you forever of the idea that animated films internationally are as kiddish as animated films in America. I reccomend having something to munch on when you watch, or at least a pillow to hold. It has a slow opening, but once you're into it, it starts to become kind of fascinating, and then it becomes kind of unnerving, and by the end you're left feeling icky and creeped out and blinking a lot and going, "Damn. Well. Damn. That was different." Which is how all suspence films should leave you feeling.
Pleasantville (1998) - Many of you have already seen this, but I feel it's worth reccing again. This film is a work of art in terms of visual design-- it's fantastically beautiful to watch. The concept of the film is simple: take two modern high shcool siblings and transport them into the imaginary 1950s suburbia of old television shows. It could almost be a Mary-Sue fic from Leave It To Beaver fandom (if such a fandom exists). It could be an adventure, and stop there. It could be a story about the kids learning to appreciate the real family they have over the plastic family of television, and stop there. But the movie *doesn't* stop there. It takes the scientific truth that you can't study something without changing it, and adds the romantic truth that a life that's not colorful (in all meanings of the phrase) is not life at all.
