Cinema Trips: January to March
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kittiwakeBlack Swan
Psychological horror about an unstable dancer whose grasp on reality disintegrates when she wins the lead role in Swan Lake.
Never Let Me Go
I never really fancied reading the novel that this film is based on, but having seen the film I think I would l like to read it no. It's a sad, grey film, with characters who are resigned to their fate. the saddest point was when the schoolchildren were so thrilled at the prospect of being able to buy toys with their accumulated tokens, and the fact that they were ecstatic when confronted with the rubbish (a naked Barbie doll with no arms, half a recorder) on the table. Towards the end of the film, I realised why they usually died on their third or fourth donation, and that nobody cared, not even them really. Andrea Riseborough obviously has one of those faces that can play pretty or plain - I would never have guessed that it was the same actress as in the one about the women factory workers.
Inside Job
A documentary about the credit crisis, featuring various involved parties squirming and being made to look like self-serving fools, as in the case of the guy who said he left his regulatory role in the midst of the crissis to return to academia because he needed to revise a textbook, and another academic who claimed that it was due to a typo that his CV contained a report called "Financial Instability in Iceland", when the report was actually called "Financial Stability in Iceland". Lots of shocked gaps and laughter from the audience.
The Adjustment Bureau
Lots of plot holes but still enjoyable due to the chemistry between the Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to have a Thelma & Louis/Ashes to ashes ending originally; I definitely got that vibe when they were trapped on the roof. I'm not sure whether or not the Adjustment Bureau was populated by angels or aliens. The Adjustment Bureau agents standing on the roof top in their overcoats at the beginning reminded me of the angels in "Wings of Desire", so to start with I was inclining towards the Chairman being God and the agents being angels, but thinking about it, perhaps it is more likely that they are aliens. The manpower shortages and the fact that plans can be changed when the ripples have got out of hand, seem more like the actions of powerful but fallible aliens (like in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives series that I have been reading recently).
Paul
Not as good as Sean of the Dead, but still funny, with lots of geeky references to other films.
Submarine
A downbeat story of Welsh teens with relationship and parental issues. Good, but I was a bit disappointed because I expecting more after all the great reviews it had received.
Psychological horror about an unstable dancer whose grasp on reality disintegrates when she wins the lead role in Swan Lake.
Never Let Me Go
I never really fancied reading the novel that this film is based on, but having seen the film I think I would l like to read it no. It's a sad, grey film, with characters who are resigned to their fate. the saddest point was when the schoolchildren were so thrilled at the prospect of being able to buy toys with their accumulated tokens, and the fact that they were ecstatic when confronted with the rubbish (a naked Barbie doll with no arms, half a recorder) on the table. Towards the end of the film, I realised why they usually died on their third or fourth donation, and that nobody cared, not even them really. Andrea Riseborough obviously has one of those faces that can play pretty or plain - I would never have guessed that it was the same actress as in the one about the women factory workers.
Inside Job
A documentary about the credit crisis, featuring various involved parties squirming and being made to look like self-serving fools, as in the case of the guy who said he left his regulatory role in the midst of the crissis to return to academia because he needed to revise a textbook, and another academic who claimed that it was due to a typo that his CV contained a report called "Financial Instability in Iceland", when the report was actually called "Financial Stability in Iceland". Lots of shocked gaps and laughter from the audience.
The Adjustment Bureau
Lots of plot holes but still enjoyable due to the chemistry between the Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to have a Thelma & Louis/Ashes to ashes ending originally; I definitely got that vibe when they were trapped on the roof. I'm not sure whether or not the Adjustment Bureau was populated by angels or aliens. The Adjustment Bureau agents standing on the roof top in their overcoats at the beginning reminded me of the angels in "Wings of Desire", so to start with I was inclining towards the Chairman being God and the agents being angels, but thinking about it, perhaps it is more likely that they are aliens. The manpower shortages and the fact that plans can be changed when the ripples have got out of hand, seem more like the actions of powerful but fallible aliens (like in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives series that I have been reading recently).
Paul
Not as good as Sean of the Dead, but still funny, with lots of geeky references to other films.
Submarine
A downbeat story of Welsh teens with relationship and parental issues. Good, but I was a bit disappointed because I expecting more after all the great reviews it had received.
