My new filmblog
Be warned, this is in norwegian.
Til alle norske lesere, ta en titt :D
As some of you might have noticed, I haven’t posted in a while. Life has caught up with me, and I am too busy. Eventually I’ll get back to writing about film and my thoughts on it, but I have decided to return to my own language, Norwegian. This basically means that I am leaving tumblr.
For those interested and capable I will post a link to my norwegian blog when it is ready.
You have been awesome, thank you for your own contributions and the attention you gave. Bye.
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.”
- T.S. Eliot
Haywire (Soderbergh 2011) - Ass whoopin’ lady agent
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1506999/
* This week I am at a film festival; Kosmorama in Trondheim. So when I write about a movie this week, it will be more of a review rather than a mind wandering. *
I watched this film with a group of film academics and I was one of the few that liked it. As they said; pretty bad acting, weird input of jazzy music and nothing original within its genre. This is relatively true of course, but nonetheless I was entertained and I will even remember it and re-watch on a later occasion.
One of the main reason for this is of course expectations, I did not have any. And as always I was looking for the good things, not the bad. What I did like was the fighting. I rarely go for the macho looking girls, but Gina Carano really pulls it off. So when this pretty “little” thing kicked ass seven ways from Sunday in a believable way, I was fascinated. When I say believable I don’t really mean realistic, and of course I mean this within the fictional universe of an action film.
Too often when a girl fight in a movie does it look like she has superpowers instead of skills. As it happens, Gina Carano is a bad ass Mixed Martial Artist! Which I found out after watching the film, by seeing her on Craig Ferguson’s show. Meaning she really can kick ass in this manner, albeit not so perfectly as in the film naturally. So in hindsight, the same reason why I liked this film is also probably the explanation for the bad acting. And I can live with that.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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| — | Mahatma Gandhi (via eloquentandhonest) |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
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| — | George R.R. Martin (via lostmusing) |
A Beautiful Mind (Howard 2001) - To lose parts of ones mind
*contains major spoilers*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/
This is a story about a man that truly was too smart for his own good. And I find it fascinating how this film portrays the difficulty of such an immense intellect’s meeting with social behavior. The directness and awkwardness of the protagonist is quite like my few experience with this particular brand of smart people.
You could say his mind compensated for his lacking in social behavior, by creating Charles. The man that stopped him from overworking himself and got him out every now and then. But his mind did not stop there, it went on to create dangerous elements too. Elements that spoon-fed his paranoia to a level that made him a danger to himself and others. And when he finally challenges his problem, just imagine the horror of letting go of your best friend in these circumstances. There are few stories of which I feel such a tremendous pity for someone.
It is one thing to find out that a few of the most important people in your life is imaginary. But to have to endure their presence after this realization, sounds like an absolute nightmare. It would break my heart every single time they tried to establish contact with me and I had to ignore them, if it were to happen to me. And this poor fellow had to take this pain his entire life.
