tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post1530350447975956856..comments2023-11-22T04:10:49.266-05:00Comments on Dispatches from Zembla: Children of MenAlokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-54745271843581284462007-01-10T12:14:00.000-05:002007-01-10T12:14:00.000-05:00well i doubt that. it really doesn't have that elu...well i doubt that. it really doesn't have that elusive, hermetic quality that attracts the cultists looking for some secret knowledge or affirmation. <br /><br />it is also unlike regular futuristic films (and that's what makes it bleak) in the way that cuaron takes pains to show that though britain 20 years from now will be different but not so different. it will perhaps be worse. i was most reminded of newsreel footage from Iraq in many of the scenes of the film. there was something very here-and-now about it.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-53356208656310918182007-01-10T12:00:00.000-05:002007-01-10T12:00:00.000-05:00Y Tu Mama was....mildly interesting, but did not l...Y Tu Mama was....mildly interesting, but did not live up to the hype (so maybe the problem is with the hype, not the film?)<br /><br />Who knows, "Children of Men" may well end up like "Blade Runner" (a film it is constantly being compared with) and in 20 years, it will become a cult film.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-35902622667856702362007-01-10T08:04:00.000-05:002007-01-10T08:04:00.000-05:00Yeah I agree, farce is the best treatment. And eve...Yeah I agree, farce is the best treatment. And even if the portrayal is serious and unironic it anyway always ends up looking like as if it were a farce :)Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-15080874134524095752007-01-10T01:41:00.000-05:002007-01-10T01:41:00.000-05:00I just saw "Some Like It Hot" - hard to think of a...I just saw "Some Like It Hot" - hard to think of a better movie about sex. No better medium than farce.Cheshire Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463645065346922684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-76192703958733257222007-01-08T23:34:00.000-05:002007-01-08T23:34:00.000-05:00I am not familiar with the James novel so can't sa...I am not familiar with the James novel so can't say anything about that. there was an article in nyt about how different the movie version is from the book and it praised the movie too for inventing its own language (the article is behind the subcription wall now.)<br /><br />i think viewers familiar with the novel will get more out of the movie. it seemed more concerned with technique and didn't really dwell on the thematic aspects of the content that much. for example the religious allusions. i am sure it would have made more sense in the book but in the movie it felt made-up, an add-on.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-87335673022699439592007-01-08T22:58:00.000-05:002007-01-08T22:58:00.000-05:00you forgot to mention that the film is based on p....you forgot to mention that the film is based on p.d.james's 1992 book of the same name. as i remember, the religious themes in the book were very central to the story. i'm more likely to find the contemporising (if that's a word) of the story problematic. <br /><br />oh--and just flipped through the book - will read again soon - and Quietus is mentioned several times. So, I guess any reading of the film would have to refer to how successful it is as an adaptation.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-26363550624825381272007-01-08T20:35:00.000-05:002007-01-08T20:35:00.000-05:00Good to find someone who feels the same :)
I have...Good to find someone who feels the same :)<br /><br />I haven't seen Battle in Heaven but I have seen his earlier film Japon which is wildly over the top and weird. Strange combination of kiaraostami, tarkovsky and (weird) pornography. I actually got a chance to see battle in heaven earlier this year but after reading about it I willingly missed it.<br /><br />Sex is a delicate subject to portray. Personally I would rather see a non-pretentious soft-core film than a pretentious one which tries to say something serious about sex.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-10193214626492732052007-01-08T20:26:00.000-05:002007-01-08T20:26:00.000-05:00Y Tu Mama Tambien is so sentimental, so manipulati...Y Tu Mama Tambien is so sentimental, so manipulative. It pretends to be about sex but it is actually about politics, like another movie, Carlos Reygadas' "Battle in Heaven", which also annoyed me. I find it hard to understand why it received such adulation.Cheshire Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463645065346922684noreply@blogger.com