Cinema Trips: May
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 19:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThis month's top film was Four Lions.
The comedy-horror It's a Wonderful Afterlife didn't really work for me. The romantic relationships didn't evolve in a believable way, the "Carrie" scene seemed out of place, and there was a huge plot hole at the end. I was expecting that Mrs Sethi would be handcuffed to a prison guard at the wedding, having been let out of prison for the day to attend her daughter's wedding. But no, after Roopi and Raj get engaged the film moves straight on to the wedding with no further mention of the police investigation. So if Mrs Sethi was not arrested, was Roopi still the main suspect? And what happened to the body of the dead policeman, stabbed to death with a pair of garden shears in the main suspect's back garden?
Four Lions, Chris Morris's satire about incompetent suicide bombers, got some very good reviews, and I wasn't disappointed by it. At the cinema there were lots of laughs (some of them rather tentative as the audience wondered whether they should really be laughing), and some moments of absolute silence. I thought that the most unnerving parts were Omar casually discussing blowing himself up with his wife and son, and telling his son a jihad version of The Lion King for his bedtime story.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was back at Broadway by popular demand, so I went to see it in the hope that I would be satisfied by the film and not need to read the books. Unfortunately it was fantastic so I had to add the books to my wish list after all. The lead actress was brilliant and by the end of the film I was finding the actor playing Blomqvist quite cute.
The comedy-horror It's a Wonderful Afterlife didn't really work for me. The romantic relationships didn't evolve in a believable way, the "Carrie" scene seemed out of place, and there was a huge plot hole at the end. I was expecting that Mrs Sethi would be handcuffed to a prison guard at the wedding, having been let out of prison for the day to attend her daughter's wedding. But no, after Roopi and Raj get engaged the film moves straight on to the wedding with no further mention of the police investigation. So if Mrs Sethi was not arrested, was Roopi still the main suspect? And what happened to the body of the dead policeman, stabbed to death with a pair of garden shears in the main suspect's back garden?
Four Lions, Chris Morris's satire about incompetent suicide bombers, got some very good reviews, and I wasn't disappointed by it. At the cinema there were lots of laughs (some of them rather tentative as the audience wondered whether they should really be laughing), and some moments of absolute silence. I thought that the most unnerving parts were Omar casually discussing blowing himself up with his wife and son, and telling his son a jihad version of The Lion King for his bedtime story.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was back at Broadway by popular demand, so I went to see it in the hope that I would be satisfied by the film and not need to read the books. Unfortunately it was fantastic so I had to add the books to my wish list after all. The lead actress was brilliant and by the end of the film I was finding the actor playing Blomqvist quite cute.
