So Far This Week #5

 Today, as there are a lot of movies, there's no winner but medals:

-Bronze for Despicable Me

-Silver for 127 Hours

-Gold for Mystic River

The Day a Man Almost Dies in the Cinema (and I don't mean the screen)

Have you heard about the movie "127 Hours"? It tells the true story of Aron Ralston, a man who was trapped by a big stone while canyoneering and after 5 days he decided to cut his own arm off in order to survive, as no one knew where he was. The movie was really good, Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting", "Slumdog Millionaire") masters the use of images and music, even though some critics talk about the Mtv generation... And James Franco performes the role of a lifetime, showing the real Ralston character: lonely, sarcastic, brave.

 

James Franco just trapped

 The real Aron Ralston trapped

Well, here comes the cool part. I went to the cinema with my boyfriend. It was quite empty (thanks God. You'll know why). We were enjoying the movie until almost its end. There is a scene, the one of the amputation, some people should have been warned about it. Boyle shows every single detail. You have to understand that Ralston does not do it before the 5th day because he doesn't have a proper razor. So here we are, well, here I am watching the scene, when we suddenly hear a female voice speaking too loud for being in a theatre: "Richard, what's up? He fainted! He fainted!". Yes, Richard, her boyfriend or husband or whatever, could not stand the sight and the result was...blackout. Ok, I'm gonna be mean, but for two days I couldn't stop laughing. Below you have the clip of the amputation. You tell me if you fainted too, cause, like Richard, some people can't separate fiction from reality. That's the charm (and dangers) of "the willing suspension of disbelief".

"Hereafter" and Tsunamis

I meant to write this post before, but I wasn't able, not only because I was revising but because it's kind of difficult for me to write about this.

We all have phobias, everybody is afraid of something. I can't stand birds coming to me, for instance. But that's in real life. In Dreamland I'm terrified by elevators that move in weird ways (so you can imagine how I feel about Harry Potter's Ministry of Magic) and what I'm talking about today: Tsunamis. I constantly dream about big waves coming to me, which according to those dream interpreters it may mean emotions, decisions, chaos...whatever. So you can imagine my reaction when I went to the movies to see last Clint Eastwood's film "Hereafter". The first minutes are a great depiction of the 2004 tsunami, from the point of view of a French woman who almost dies there. It's frightening, even for those who don't feel like me about waves, Lou can tell.

 

I thought that maybe the best way to deal with the phobia was by facing it, and as I'm unable to create my own therapy-tsunami, I began to watch videos of real tsunamis on youtube. If you're not able to watch real footage, take a look at this video:

Well, about the movie -"Hereafter", not the one above- I must admit that it was a bit slow, but I liked it, mainly the scene of the tsunami and the story of the English twins. However, I found Matt Damon particularly boring and I consider that this is one of Clint Eastwood's worst movies, although for me it's not that awful ("What would "Gran Torino" 's Walt Kowalski say to such a limp and passive film? "Get off my screen" (Kyle Smith: New York Post).  I don't know, I love death movies in general and in particular I like those nobody  else does like "What Dreams May Come", do you remember? The one with Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.? Dunno, I guess I'm a weirdo after all...

So Far this Week #4

Winner of the Week: THE KING'S SPEECH. (Although I loved The Kids Are All Right)

Unveiled memories

Once I had an analogic camera

I tried to capture every single important moment.

But I did something wrong and

The film was suddenly...unveiled.

I realized that I had put so much effort

On trying to remember pictures

That I had no real memories.

So Far this Week #3

Winner of the week: BLACK SWAN

Series for Exam Periods

Sorry about my abscence these days but I'm in the middle of my exax period and writing thousands of boring essays so that's why I can't devote as much time as I'd like to my blog. I can't even follow my film journal, which is awful (yes, I don't give a shit about my marks as soon as I pass). But I'm unable to devote all my time to revision so what I do these days is watching series (just 20 or 40 minutes per day don't make me feel guily). Last year I watched "True Blood" and now I'm following the path of not-so-serious-series and started to follow "No Ordinary Family". This is a remake of Disney's "The Incredibles": the Powell family has a planecrash in Brazil and suddenly get amazing new powers. The mother, played by Julie Benz (Dexter's Rita) is superfast, her bald-and-fat husband is superstrong and her daughter and son can read minds and have a superbrain respectively. They even have a black friend who helps them! (He's kinda hot, btw) Though this one is not Frozone and has no powers at all. So if you wanna have some fun and thought-free entertainment I absolutely recommend it.