I think this film is designed mostly to look cool :p Dark colours for the right vampire atmosphere, cool dark outfits...
We follow Selene aka Kate Beckinsale, a vampire whose whole life is hunting down lycans aka werewolves. There is a war between lycans and vampires that has been going on for ages, and she strongly believes in it, but when she realizes that the lycans are following a specific human she wants to investigate going against direct orders of her superior, and protects him from them. Ot at least she tries, but not very well. A lycan bites him, and she discovers why he's so important to them, and a secret that is going to change everything for her, because things are not as she thought, and the vampire master Viktor she looked up to as a God is not who she thought he was, and even the war has much more to it than she knew.
We kind of suspect it when she talks about it, because it sounds very much like propaganda, in fact.
Funny how in this film they show us her training with weapons, but in battle it seems she never gets her shot :lol Also it's okay that everything happens at night, but there is noone around, what kind of city is that. I mean, nobody , absolutely noone. No people, no cars around.
SPOILERS ahead :)
This was not difficult to guess, hearing her talking about how the great vampire saved her when lycans murdered all her family, becoming like a parenting figure for her, the flawless master she looks up to. I was already like : such a sweet heart for a vampire, this is not twilight, I don't believe this.
She describes lycans like ferocious beasts that only care for killing innocent people, and that's why the vampires fight them... so the vampires are the righteous heroes??? Come on, you really believe that??
Obviously it turns out she had it all wrong, Viktor lied to her when she was just a baby, and she always believed him and never doubted him, but now she's forced to realized he's a bastard, the worst of all, the one who started this whole war because the lycan's leader Lucien a long time ago had fallen in love with Viktor's daughter. She loved him too, and this started Viktor's wrath. He sentenced her to death, leaving Lucien to watch her die burned by sunlight. Now Lucien's plan is to prove that lycans and vampires can be united, and even if he dies his wish is granted, because the human already changing into werewolf is dying, and to save him Selena bites him too. He doesn't die, on the contrary he becomes much stronger, and able to fight even with Viktor.
The whole truth about how vampires are really the real responsible for the war wasn't a surprise to me, but the love story Viktor's daughter-Lucien kinda was, especially the way they punished them for such a "crime". It was pretty intense, although very brief. In a way, too brief. I know the film is all about being cool and fighting, but a little more heart would have been appreciated.
Lucien should have had a bigger part, more time to show us his emotions.
Of course, they made a prequel just about him, telling all his story, but it's not the same. In this one, he should have had more time!
mercoledì 30 aprile 2014
Underworld Rise of the lycans - it's the prequel so we know how it ends
If you have watched Underworld before this, you already know what Lucien story is. They told it very briefly in the first movie, as a shocking surprise (intended to be), because things weren't exactly how our protagonist thought they were, and in this movie we see again Viktor, and we follow all Lucien story, from birth to the moment the war between lycans and vampires started.
It's a nice film, good effects, and I like the Lucien character, but of course there are no surprises of any kind because we know where they're going, we know what started the war, we know whose fault it was.
Anyway, I enjoyed it enough, not too much but enough. The dark colours created the right atmosphere and the fights were fun to watch.
A film I might watch again, if it so happens, but it wouldn't be among my first choices...
It's a nice film, good effects, and I like the Lucien character, but of course there are no surprises of any kind because we know where they're going, we know what started the war, we know whose fault it was.
Anyway, I enjoyed it enough, not too much but enough. The dark colours created the right atmosphere and the fights were fun to watch.
A film I might watch again, if it so happens, but it wouldn't be among my first choices...
The Croods - lol
This is the funny story on a caveman family that was able to survive until now because the father is very very strong and because they never do anything new or risky. Never go out at night, for example. In this family there is a grandmother, a father, a mother, a teen girl, a son and a little daughter. The girl - called Eep - is pretty fed up with all these rules that don't allow for anything funny, so one night she goes outside the cave where her family sleeps together, and starts wandering, and meets a strange, eccentric guy - called Guy - that warns her of something terrible about to happen, the world changing, and the need to run away to a safer place. She wouldn't have left her home and her house just like that, of course, but things actually started to go bad and their cave was lost, so the whole family HAD to move, and they joined with Guy to the delight of Eep that has took quite a shine for him - of course :)
It's funny, there are a lot of funny scenes that made me laugh or smile :) I really liked it, much more that I had thought, because the caveman-theme made me doubt, but it was very nice. Since they have never go far from their cave, they know nothing of the world and everything is new and therefore, thinks the father, a mortal danger :)
SPOILERS:
My favourite scene remains when all the family goes in search of food. Not hunting, but with the intention of stealing a big egg to share between them. They make a plan, they throw the egg as if playing American Football, but nothing in the whole film made laugh like the moment when they were about to lose it so the father shouted " Release the baby!!" and the mother put down this little child, very little, and she started running furiously and you definitely wouldn't want to be there when she gets there :lol: it's like a nice little monster :lol she's terrible! :lol
It's funny, there are a lot of funny scenes that made me laugh or smile :) I really liked it, much more that I had thought, because the caveman-theme made me doubt, but it was very nice. Since they have never go far from their cave, they know nothing of the world and everything is new and therefore, thinks the father, a mortal danger :)
SPOILERS:
My favourite scene remains when all the family goes in search of food. Not hunting, but with the intention of stealing a big egg to share between them. They make a plan, they throw the egg as if playing American Football, but nothing in the whole film made laugh like the moment when they were about to lose it so the father shouted " Release the baby!!" and the mother put down this little child, very little, and she started running furiously and you definitely wouldn't want to be there when she gets there :lol: it's like a nice little monster :lol she's terrible! :lol
martedì 29 aprile 2014
Cosmopolis – stay away, trust me
Boring, oh
so boring, the void, 1h40mins of absolute emptiness…
The only
reason to watch this movie is if you’re such a big fan of Robert Pattinson that
you’re happy just by looking at him for 100 minutes without listening to a word
they’re saying. You should hit the mute, and just look at him. If this is
enough for you, than you might enjoy the movie. Otherwise: stay away, if
someone says “we could watch Cosmop..” you run, run as fast as you can.
I was
curious, so I watched it. There’s nothing in it, if I don’t have to pay I watch
a lot of different stuff, out of curiosity. This one, I will never watch again,
not even for 5 seconds. Oh the horror!
You want
the plot? Pattinson is rich and powerful, and is driven to the other side of
town to have his hair cut. It takes an aweful lot of time, so he does
everything in the car (it’s a limousine after all, enough room to live in it):
he talks to people about politics and money, have occasional sex, even his
physical exam happens in the car. Just embarrassing. Then again there’s talking
about money, the spectre of capitalism, the illusion of a future… kill me,
please. Be kind.
He gets out
of the car only two or three time, to eat while talking about sex in a very
annoying way to the girl that already regrets having married him, and to have
sex with a female bodyguard, only because they needed more space than what you
can have in a car (even a limousine) to show a naked woman standing, just for the sake of it, absolutely no plot
reason at all. They probably thought all the girls would be drooling watching
Pattinson, so they needed something interesting for the men…
After ten
minutes I already wanted to stop, but I thought: it can’t be all like this, so
I kept watching, and I was right, it got even worse… Apparently he was very shaken because the
genius that he is actually made an investment mistake, although I didn’t get
this until the end when they said it clearly. I didn’t see any kind of emotion
on his face, none at all, but it turned out he was so terribly shaken to lose
his mind, to the point that he killed his own bodyguard and then went to the
house of the man that threatened to kill him, just to talk. Of course, logical
ending. Obvious that he should guess where that man was, and chose him to talk
to. (???)
Again, they
talk, a lot. I was there thinking: you guy, you wanted to kill him, now he’s
right here, what are you waiting for???
We don’t
even get to see it. We hear a shot at the very end, and that’s it. We don’t
see, we don’t know, we can only hope.
The best thing of the entire film was when the
final credits started 6 minutes from the end. Long credits: good! They should
have been longer, like 1h30 min at least. That would have been much more
interesting.
domenica 27 aprile 2014
The Hobbit - the desolation of Smaug
If some people complained that the first film was not enough true to the book, I can't imagine what they'll say now! The first film was impressively loyal to the book, but here it does, yes, follow the book-storyline of course, but with many many liberties.
- they invented a female character, Tauriel, out of nowhere; she will feel a certain sympathy for Kili and run to save him when he's poisoned.
- they poisoned Kili with an Orc's arrow, just like Frodo when was stabbed by a Nazgul, and apparently you can only be cured by a pretty young she-elf and a specific weed.
- Legolas is back, helping Tauriel and fighting the Orcs, but I'll admit it's fun to watch him fight like it's a dance, standing on the dwarves' head, turning and jumping like a ballerina, and surfing on a dead orc's body like he used to do using a shield.
- there is talk about The One returning, and they go as far as naming it.
Stephen Fry had such a small part as the Master of Laketown, and with a disgusting makeup (meaning made to look yeuch, not badly done).
But these people know how to make a film, don't they? The lights, the colours, locations, sets, costumes, were all awesome, really perfect, and when we come to the dragon, wasn't he beautiful?? I think he has Benedict Cumberbatch's voice, but honestly couldn't tell because the voice was very altered (and rightly so), but this Smaug was visually amazing, the way he looked and the way he moved, his long neck moving zig zag like a snake (of course).
And if you enjoy a nice - well, nicely made outside but really a bastard inside - dragon, you will see much more of it in the next film because of course this too was a trilogy, and quite like the last time we had
- first film , introductions and a bit of voyage, with a bit of hard time to form a bond between the characters
- separating the group, there's fighting everywhere
- and finally three, with the BIG battle, where everyone is involved and the big bad guy is about to get defeated.
Question, if you've seen it : don't you think these dwarves are good at being angry and grumpy, but when you come right down to it, seriously, what do they do? They get caught by the spiders, and are able to fight only after Bilbo frees them. Imprisoned by the Elves, again freed by Bilbo. Helped by Bard to get into the city, but as soon as they act alone and think for themselves, they are caught by the guards; when they can't open the door they just give up: what would they do without Bilbo?? Then they hide and send Bilbo in to find the stone... I mean yeah they slay a few spiders and orcs here and there, but without Bilbo and the Elves they'd be nothing more than a good-fat-meal now. They get away from the city by promising riches, and when they finally decide to unite against Smaug Thorin again delights us with his cool-tough-look and his way with words, but that's it. They conclude nothing, a bit like the usual, if you ask me :lol
Question n. 2. Since when did Thorin has such big big hands, that he looks like The Thing of the Fantastic Four ?? I never noticed that before, but here when he opens the door he has such big hands...
mercoledì 23 aprile 2014
Hugo Cabret - it's magical...
SPOILERS from now on, just a warning if you don't want to know the details don'd go on.
Everything is magical, the train station with her warm light and people starting their jobs, opening the bar, setting the flowers, everything makes you feel in old Paris even before you notice their clothing or see the Eiffel Tower. Hugo lives alone in the railway station, and after his uncle who used to work there disappeared he kept working on his place so noone would suspect and go looking. He goes about 'secret passages' and knows steals whatever food he can to survive and tools he needs to repair an automaton, the only thing left of his father. Before he died, they used to work at it together. His father had found it abandoned, and broken, but was really keen on repairing it.
Trying to steal more tools Hugo gets caught by the toymaker who is really grumpy and not nice, but the atmosphere is so fairytale you don't get too worried, just wait to see how it'll sorted out.
This toymaker played by Ben Kingsley is George Melies, who was a real person, who reinvented cinema, bringing it to another level, and really made the movies we see or hear about in this film here. Up till now you were in a sort of Dickens-style world filled with fairytale air, but know the magic begins , when the automaton gets repaired and starts drawing the famous image of a moon with a sort of human face with a rocket in its eye from "A trip to the moon" the 1902 film . Then the 2 kids discover who George is, and listen to his story, and it's all sort of magical, and I know that in a way it's strange because those films and special effects are childish now, but seeing it with the eyes of two 1930s kids is absolute magic, because Melies invented it, fantasy-sciencefiction with the trip to the moon, horror with Faust, and all kinds of strange adventures... and him being a magician before starting cinema, he made a lot of special effects, creating montage and even colour... Even Christopher Lee's character, bookstore owner Mr Labisse, who knows where you can find anything you need, and who gives a book to Hugo because "he sends books to a good home" , where they are needed or where they should be. Even him. Magic!
When the film ends is hard to go back to your real age, though..
venerdì 18 aprile 2014
giovedì 17 aprile 2014
Blackpool - Love every David Tennant moment!!!
Just one series in 6 episodes, not much really, but David Tennant is in it, and as always he's great! :D
This is a strange series, first I've ever seen that it's like this. Not only part crime story (he's a detective), part musical (there are at least 3 songs in every eps, or more) which is already a bizarre combination, but it's not a real musical, because the actors don't carry the weight of the songs on their shoulders. You listen to the original song, and the actors are singing under it. Like what we do when we listen to music. Volume up and singing allong!!! Sometimes you can't hear the actors' voices, sometimes you can :-) Although just barely...
I liked it a lot, but I must say it could have been better: who really needed all that business talking??? Did anyone really care about all that? I didn't. At all. They were so many, and so long, I really don't understand the reason for them. They could have done a lot of other scenes. Show more partners-moments between Peter and Blythe, above everything. If the reason was that they wanted more of David Morrissey protagonist, that's okay, they could show Ripley with his friends or his family or maybe alone, to get to know his feelings, anything BUT business talking. It was just so boring. So so boring.
If you've never seen the show and you watch just a song-moment, you'll be like "what's that nonsense?", but if you watch the whole thing, the songs are amazing, they are amazing singing them, and listen carefully to who is singing which sentence, because of course they are pertinent with the story, it goes on via the song. There are many moments and songs that are lovely, but I can't get over the "should I stay by Gabrielle" moment, when Peter/David realizes he's in love with Natalie/Sarah Parish. It's such a beautiful moment, where you get to understand what both of them are feeling, and you can hear David's voice under it, and it's a perfect moment, so beautiful!!!
Okay, I liked it and I liked the prostitute girl and Steve too, but without David Tennant in it I probably wouldn't like it that much, I'd just say 'yeah nice' and that would be it, but he's so gorgeous, and his love story so lovely... I was just waiting for them, didn't really care for all the rest.
This is a strange series, first I've ever seen that it's like this. Not only part crime story (he's a detective), part musical (there are at least 3 songs in every eps, or more) which is already a bizarre combination, but it's not a real musical, because the actors don't carry the weight of the songs on their shoulders. You listen to the original song, and the actors are singing under it. Like what we do when we listen to music. Volume up and singing allong!!! Sometimes you can't hear the actors' voices, sometimes you can :-) Although just barely...
I liked it a lot, but I must say it could have been better: who really needed all that business talking??? Did anyone really care about all that? I didn't. At all. They were so many, and so long, I really don't understand the reason for them. They could have done a lot of other scenes. Show more partners-moments between Peter and Blythe, above everything. If the reason was that they wanted more of David Morrissey protagonist, that's okay, they could show Ripley with his friends or his family or maybe alone, to get to know his feelings, anything BUT business talking. It was just so boring. So so boring.
If you've never seen the show and you watch just a song-moment, you'll be like "what's that nonsense?", but if you watch the whole thing, the songs are amazing, they are amazing singing them, and listen carefully to who is singing which sentence, because of course they are pertinent with the story, it goes on via the song. There are many moments and songs that are lovely, but I can't get over the "should I stay by Gabrielle" moment, when Peter/David realizes he's in love with Natalie/Sarah Parish. It's such a beautiful moment, where you get to understand what both of them are feeling, and you can hear David's voice under it, and it's a perfect moment, so beautiful!!!
Okay, I liked it and I liked the prostitute girl and Steve too, but without David Tennant in it I probably wouldn't like it that much, I'd just say 'yeah nice' and that would be it, but he's so gorgeous, and his love story so lovely... I was just waiting for them, didn't really care for all the rest.
martedì 15 aprile 2014
Cloud Atlas -
It's very very complicated. The story is already enough complicated because it's bits of 5 stories (yes, FIVE different stories) and the film keeps going from one story to the other, a piece of this a piece of that.
Also, I'm not good with faces (or names, for that matter, but let's not talk about that) and for quite a while I kept saying who's that? Who is he supposed to be? Is the one on the boat similar to the musician guy? Because there are the same actors in all the stories. It was easy for me to see all the characters played by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry (protagonists) but of course also those played by Hugo Weaving, such a characteristic face, you can't not recognise him.
Anyway, it kept me watching it, it wasn't boring or anything, just difficult to follow the first time round. I had to watch it twice, then I saw a lot more things. Like that the editor was reading a manuscript from a certain Javier Gomes that we'll get to meet when he was still a child. Also it was only at the end that I understood the importance of the story of the musician. For a long time (it's a long movie) I thought Why is he important? Why are we following his story too? Of course, his boyfriend was important, very important in another story too, but I couldn't see why that Robert fellow was so important we were also following all his story and listening to all the letters he was sending to Sixsmith. But I got it in the end, and it was beautiful. All the stories are connected, and it's not merely their actions that are important, but also their feelings. Mostly their feelings! At the beginning you kind of think that the most important story is the one from 1973, where a journalist tries to uncover a truth that will lead to a mass-murder if not stopped, but it's not , it's just a piece.
I liked it, in the end. I was waiting, while watching it, thinking it was keeping me glued to the screen in waiting for the end, and I thought this might turn out very good, or the biggest disappointment in a long time (filmwise), it all depended on how all the stories were tied up in the end. And I liked it. Because of the love. Especially the love between Robert and Rufus Sixsmith (I just remembered his name .-) ).
Okay, I want to go into details, so I'm warning everyone reading it, if there'll be ever anyone reading this, that from now on I'm adding SPOILERS, so stop here if you don't want to know.
You've been warned. SPOILERS start here. Now.
That Robert died we knew it from the beginning, although I had a little hope for one moment. When he actually went to kill himself in his apartment, and Rufus was coming to see him, I said out loud, If he hears the shot while he's still on the stairs, so close and yet too late, I'm gonna be very angry. Then it happened exactly that, and I screamed at the screen with all my voice. But I understood. It was important to follow Robert's story because his letters are still in Rufus' hands, because he always thought that love was so powerful to outlive death. Because it was the same actor playing Rufus that in the end hears all Somni's story (or Sonmi, not sure, but I prefer Somni, it's easier :p). He's the one who believes her. When she dies so that her story can be heard, and everyone can be aware of her, it's him who listen to all of it, her story, her motivations, her love. "Did you love him? yes I do. You mean you still love him (despite the fact that he's now dead)? I mean that I will always love him". Because yes, love outlives death. And when he asks if she believes anyone will believe her story, what if noone does, she replies that someone already believes. She doesn't say who because there are guards present, but it's obvious she's talking about him.
The characters of Tom Hanks were a puzzle to me for a while, because I was like, is he good or what? In one story he's risking his life to help her with her article, in another he throws a man off a building, in another he's a very unpleasant doctor - so much so that I wasn't surprised at all when it was revealed that he wasn't curing his patient, he was poisoning him. I was there already. Because when he said "a tiger cannot change its stripes" he wanted Adam to think "it means he's a doctor and wants to cure me" while he should have thought that when they met that doctor was looking for teeth to sell, with a look that made me think he cared more about the money that of the people, if you know what I mean. Zachry.. was maybe a coward, but did that make him a bad person? He let a man and a child die, but he couldn't have saved them. Being scared to hell of certain death makes you a bad person? No. He himself took risks afterwards to save the little girl. I didn't understand. Then it came to me. When he met her he was a better person. When she was distant, the evil side won. When she was with him, he was able to overcome fear, to take risks, to do the right thing. 1849, she's a slave, so they don't meet: he is a murderer. In 1936 he blackmailed Robert. In 1973 he meets her and risks his life, dying, for her. In 2012 she's in the room but he doesn't see her, and he becomes a murderer. So what about Zachry? He was alone when he acted like a coward. It was to save her that he acted like the prophecy adviced him, twice. Then he went against the prophecy in the village, when she was distant, and he killed that bastard who had killed his family. You could think "yeah do it" but think about it. Had the *#@* being alive, he would have gone out when being called by the others, and Zachry and the little girl wouldn't have been at risk, he wouldn't have been hurt.
Only when she was with him, he was a better person.
The story of Cavendish is important because it brings him to the making of his film, which will then one day bring Yoona to show it to Somni and will start the whole thing. Which will be the same old story , in the future like in the past. People are all the same, people are people, doesn't matter where they are from, how they look, or how they were born. And the lives of all the people are all connected, every bad thing you do, every kindness you do, will mean something for your future and the future of others.
1849, Adam helps a slave, then the slave saves his life, so to induce him, with his wife to abandon home and the rich father-in-law and go away to fight slavery. Same actors that in 2144 will play Somni and Chang, fighting and dying to spread their words of love, of peace. Same souls fighting the fight because touched by the suffering of other people, because they believed that every step was a step forward, no matter how small.
I also liked Keith David stories. He was a slave in 1849, and in 1973 he was an ex-soldier who helped Rey because her father had saved his life during the war. And in 2144 he's the leader of the rebellion group. And in that distant future that we don't know exactly how far, we only know it'll be centuries in the future (I'd say at least 2500, but maybe much much more), he'll be among those who will get saved.
It made me think of Matrix the way Chang kept on fighting and risking everything because he believed she was gonna change the world. And it made me think of The Time Machine because these people artificially born are kept below, their life is to work and serve, and they'll get eaten at the end.
Wow, this is getting really long. I guess I wanted to say a lot of things.
Just one thing. The story that seemed less important is the one that is more in my heart now. Rufus Sixsmith, who held the dying body of his Robert in his arms, cried his heart out, but kept his love inside. After 37 years he still had his letters with him, still thought of him a lot, and still believed in love. Because he had kept him in his heart. And that was important because all of Somni's words, all of Chang's fighting, it would have been for nothing if there had not been someone there with the kind of heart that could accept it, to change its way of living, of thinking, of viewing the world.
Also, I'm not good with faces (or names, for that matter, but let's not talk about that) and for quite a while I kept saying who's that? Who is he supposed to be? Is the one on the boat similar to the musician guy? Because there are the same actors in all the stories. It was easy for me to see all the characters played by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry (protagonists) but of course also those played by Hugo Weaving, such a characteristic face, you can't not recognise him.
Anyway, it kept me watching it, it wasn't boring or anything, just difficult to follow the first time round. I had to watch it twice, then I saw a lot more things. Like that the editor was reading a manuscript from a certain Javier Gomes that we'll get to meet when he was still a child. Also it was only at the end that I understood the importance of the story of the musician. For a long time (it's a long movie) I thought Why is he important? Why are we following his story too? Of course, his boyfriend was important, very important in another story too, but I couldn't see why that Robert fellow was so important we were also following all his story and listening to all the letters he was sending to Sixsmith. But I got it in the end, and it was beautiful. All the stories are connected, and it's not merely their actions that are important, but also their feelings. Mostly their feelings! At the beginning you kind of think that the most important story is the one from 1973, where a journalist tries to uncover a truth that will lead to a mass-murder if not stopped, but it's not , it's just a piece.
I liked it, in the end. I was waiting, while watching it, thinking it was keeping me glued to the screen in waiting for the end, and I thought this might turn out very good, or the biggest disappointment in a long time (filmwise), it all depended on how all the stories were tied up in the end. And I liked it. Because of the love. Especially the love between Robert and Rufus Sixsmith (I just remembered his name .-) ).
Okay, I want to go into details, so I'm warning everyone reading it, if there'll be ever anyone reading this, that from now on I'm adding SPOILERS, so stop here if you don't want to know.
You've been warned. SPOILERS start here. Now.
That Robert died we knew it from the beginning, although I had a little hope for one moment. When he actually went to kill himself in his apartment, and Rufus was coming to see him, I said out loud, If he hears the shot while he's still on the stairs, so close and yet too late, I'm gonna be very angry. Then it happened exactly that, and I screamed at the screen with all my voice. But I understood. It was important to follow Robert's story because his letters are still in Rufus' hands, because he always thought that love was so powerful to outlive death. Because it was the same actor playing Rufus that in the end hears all Somni's story (or Sonmi, not sure, but I prefer Somni, it's easier :p). He's the one who believes her. When she dies so that her story can be heard, and everyone can be aware of her, it's him who listen to all of it, her story, her motivations, her love. "Did you love him? yes I do. You mean you still love him (despite the fact that he's now dead)? I mean that I will always love him". Because yes, love outlives death. And when he asks if she believes anyone will believe her story, what if noone does, she replies that someone already believes. She doesn't say who because there are guards present, but it's obvious she's talking about him.
The characters of Tom Hanks were a puzzle to me for a while, because I was like, is he good or what? In one story he's risking his life to help her with her article, in another he throws a man off a building, in another he's a very unpleasant doctor - so much so that I wasn't surprised at all when it was revealed that he wasn't curing his patient, he was poisoning him. I was there already. Because when he said "a tiger cannot change its stripes" he wanted Adam to think "it means he's a doctor and wants to cure me" while he should have thought that when they met that doctor was looking for teeth to sell, with a look that made me think he cared more about the money that of the people, if you know what I mean. Zachry.. was maybe a coward, but did that make him a bad person? He let a man and a child die, but he couldn't have saved them. Being scared to hell of certain death makes you a bad person? No. He himself took risks afterwards to save the little girl. I didn't understand. Then it came to me. When he met her he was a better person. When she was distant, the evil side won. When she was with him, he was able to overcome fear, to take risks, to do the right thing. 1849, she's a slave, so they don't meet: he is a murderer. In 1936 he blackmailed Robert. In 1973 he meets her and risks his life, dying, for her. In 2012 she's in the room but he doesn't see her, and he becomes a murderer. So what about Zachry? He was alone when he acted like a coward. It was to save her that he acted like the prophecy adviced him, twice. Then he went against the prophecy in the village, when she was distant, and he killed that bastard who had killed his family. You could think "yeah do it" but think about it. Had the *#@* being alive, he would have gone out when being called by the others, and Zachry and the little girl wouldn't have been at risk, he wouldn't have been hurt.
Only when she was with him, he was a better person.
The story of Cavendish is important because it brings him to the making of his film, which will then one day bring Yoona to show it to Somni and will start the whole thing. Which will be the same old story , in the future like in the past. People are all the same, people are people, doesn't matter where they are from, how they look, or how they were born. And the lives of all the people are all connected, every bad thing you do, every kindness you do, will mean something for your future and the future of others.
1849, Adam helps a slave, then the slave saves his life, so to induce him, with his wife to abandon home and the rich father-in-law and go away to fight slavery. Same actors that in 2144 will play Somni and Chang, fighting and dying to spread their words of love, of peace. Same souls fighting the fight because touched by the suffering of other people, because they believed that every step was a step forward, no matter how small.
I also liked Keith David stories. He was a slave in 1849, and in 1973 he was an ex-soldier who helped Rey because her father had saved his life during the war. And in 2144 he's the leader of the rebellion group. And in that distant future that we don't know exactly how far, we only know it'll be centuries in the future (I'd say at least 2500, but maybe much much more), he'll be among those who will get saved.
It made me think of Matrix the way Chang kept on fighting and risking everything because he believed she was gonna change the world. And it made me think of The Time Machine because these people artificially born are kept below, their life is to work and serve, and they'll get eaten at the end.
Wow, this is getting really long. I guess I wanted to say a lot of things.
Just one thing. The story that seemed less important is the one that is more in my heart now. Rufus Sixsmith, who held the dying body of his Robert in his arms, cried his heart out, but kept his love inside. After 37 years he still had his letters with him, still thought of him a lot, and still believed in love. Because he had kept him in his heart. And that was important because all of Somni's words, all of Chang's fighting, it would have been for nothing if there had not been someone there with the kind of heart that could accept it, to change its way of living, of thinking, of viewing the world.
domenica 13 aprile 2014
Doctor Who Partners in crime - Love!!
Just rewatched it to cheer me up. I love it. Is that possible in this world to find someone that doesn't love David Tennant? Is that possible? I mean, I understand everyone is different, everyone has their own opinion and likes, but seriously. David. Tennant. He seems to me the nicest person in the whole world. I'd watch anything with David Tennant.
But I digress. The episode. I love the fact that Donna is searching for him because she regrets having declined his offer to go with him. Of course she is, of course she does. Not only he's the Doctor, he's David Tennant!
Anyway, I also love the fact that she's not in love with him. She loves him as a friend, but not romantically, which is kind of a relief. Until now, everyone who met the Doctor was in love with him in a sec : Rose, than Captain Jack, than Martha. Than that nurse in love with human John Smith (who could blame her), than Astrid Peth ... but not Donna.
Very funny the way they met. I can't understand what she's miming in the end. I understand the beginning of it ( Doctor, it's me. I can see that. I was looking for you.) then she starts making strange gestures, which I don't think even the Doctor is able to understand.
I love the bit at the beginning, in the Tardis, when he starts talking, then he realizes he's alone and stops. It's not fun to be alone, poor Doctor.
Also when he's about to put together the two sonic devices, I love how he says "nor me. Let's find out". Love it!
Needless to say I always watch it in english, because his voice is great, I love it, and the dubbing doesn't do him justice. They made a mistake there, it's so not him.
Anyway. I loved Donna's speech about : I had a day with you and it seemed like everything was going to change, I was going to do so much, then I woke up the next day and it was the same old life" Oh Donna, that's so real and so true.
In every series of DW there's also a story that keeps going through all the episodes, leaving clues here and there. In this series, it's the continuing mentions of planets disappearing. "How can a planet disappear?" , well Doctor, just you wait and you'll find out.
Every time I say or write "well" in my head I hear it in David Tennant's voice. :p
But I digress. The episode. I love the fact that Donna is searching for him because she regrets having declined his offer to go with him. Of course she is, of course she does. Not only he's the Doctor, he's David Tennant!
Anyway, I also love the fact that she's not in love with him. She loves him as a friend, but not romantically, which is kind of a relief. Until now, everyone who met the Doctor was in love with him in a sec : Rose, than Captain Jack, than Martha. Than that nurse in love with human John Smith (who could blame her), than Astrid Peth ... but not Donna.
Very funny the way they met. I can't understand what she's miming in the end. I understand the beginning of it ( Doctor, it's me. I can see that. I was looking for you.) then she starts making strange gestures, which I don't think even the Doctor is able to understand.
I love the bit at the beginning, in the Tardis, when he starts talking, then he realizes he's alone and stops. It's not fun to be alone, poor Doctor.
Also when he's about to put together the two sonic devices, I love how he says "nor me. Let's find out". Love it!
Needless to say I always watch it in english, because his voice is great, I love it, and the dubbing doesn't do him justice. They made a mistake there, it's so not him.
Anyway. I loved Donna's speech about : I had a day with you and it seemed like everything was going to change, I was going to do so much, then I woke up the next day and it was the same old life" Oh Donna, that's so real and so true.
In every series of DW there's also a story that keeps going through all the episodes, leaving clues here and there. In this series, it's the continuing mentions of planets disappearing. "How can a planet disappear?" , well Doctor, just you wait and you'll find out.
Every time I say or write "well" in my head I hear it in David Tennant's voice. :p
The beach. bored.
Boring. Boring. Oh so boring, this film. Before watching it I thought there was a mistery as to why people would start dying on that beach. Now I know there's no mistery at all. Nothing. There's 1 dead because of shark, 1 dead because of: 1/3 is shark's fault, 2/3 is people's fault, heartless, soulless people. A group of 4 dead because the protagonist Richard (young Di Caprio) has lost his mind, or would like to , as an excuse for wanting those 4 kids to die as the solution to his problem (what to do with them?).
Also that community was going on pretty well apparently, until Rich arrived and everything started to go real bad. The only character I liked was Etienne, of course, the only one with a soul.
Also I thought the finale was stupid, very stupid. You've just killed 4 people because they were in your field, you're angry because new people are arriving when they promised you: no new arrivals. You're very angry because those kids had a map, and you don't want people to come, so what do you do? You go to them saying, go away, simple as that, despite the little problem that they all know where that island is, they could tell anyone, they could send people there (or police), they could start making maps and spreading them...
seemed to me like it was a very boring film, with a very stupid finale. Personal opinion, of course.
Won't watch it again.
Also that community was going on pretty well apparently, until Rich arrived and everything started to go real bad. The only character I liked was Etienne, of course, the only one with a soul.
Also I thought the finale was stupid, very stupid. You've just killed 4 people because they were in your field, you're angry because new people are arriving when they promised you: no new arrivals. You're very angry because those kids had a map, and you don't want people to come, so what do you do? You go to them saying, go away, simple as that, despite the little problem that they all know where that island is, they could tell anyone, they could send people there (or police), they could start making maps and spreading them...
seemed to me like it was a very boring film, with a very stupid finale. Personal opinion, of course.
Won't watch it again.
Django Unchained
Not a bad movie to start this blog, uh? I usually like Tarantino, so I thought let's see this one. I bet I'll like it. And you know what? I liked it. It was better than I thought.
The point of this blog is for me to talk about it so that when one day I'll have forgotten all about it I may remember something after reading this, so spoilers cannot be avoided, so be warned!
A German bounty-hunter (Christoph Waltz) frees Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, because he needs him. Django knows the faces of three criminals, and he doesn't.
So, you may think the film will be their search for those 3 criminals, but that part is over in no time, and you think What now? Then Django starts working as a bounty-hunter with his new friend, and here I thought, oh now he'll spend all winter learning the job, learning how to shoot, but no, this part also was over in no time. No need to learn anything, despite the fact that he was a slave, that he can barely read with difficulty, he can already shoot like.. well I'd say even better than Tex Willer, for those who know him (comic book). Again, what now? The film is 2hours and 38 minutes long! Still a long way to go! But it's at this point that the big story starts, because now Django wants to free his wife, and since they're now partners but also friends, they're going to do it together. Of course. Now the wife is legally the property of a real (insert insult here), but the most hideous character of all is his servant Steven (Samuel L. Jackson), a black slave who after many years has reached the highest position a slave can reach, and he is now a slaver himself because he likes to see those poor men and women in their place. I mean, young Calvin (Leonardo Di Caprio) is the son of a wealthy southern family and frankly has never known anything different, although this is not an excuse because he is someone you hate instantly, but Steven is even worse. Anyway, this is not exactly the final showdown, because first they meet, then Kingschultz proposes to buy a slave fighter for a lot of money, in this way they are introduced in the house, to meet the family and the other servants. Kingschultz is very close to obtaining that servant Brumhilda would be given to him as a bonus, because she speaks German, when Steven ruins everything guessing the real interest of Django and Kingschultz and revealing it to his master. Calvin shows again how bad he is, but the deal still goes on and everything could be arranged, but for one point. Calvin insists, badly, that they shake hands to seal the deal, but this is too much, Kingschultz despises him too much to accept that, he just can't, his being is repulsed at the idea, until he can't bear with it anymore and shoots Calvin dead in his own house. Of course he gets killed and Django captured and sent away as a slave again, but now he's changed and too close to his wife to give up. He tricks the three man that are taking him away (one of them is played by Tarantino himself) and comes back to kill them all ( he lets the slave go free, kills everybody else, and Steven) and burns down the house, and goes away with his wife.
Now, this Kingschultz character is immediately adorable and funny. He has his personal code of honor, he goes around killing men that are wanted by the law of the US, dead or alive and he has already chosen that dead is easier. From the first moment he spoke with respect to Django, like speaking to a fellow man and not to a slave. He despises slavery entirely. He is sweet and romantic in his own way and his heart's full of nostalgia when he hears that Django's wife is called Brumhilda and she even speaks German! He tells Django a story he says it's very famous where he comes from: Brumhilda's father, angry with her, locks her at the top of a dangerous mountain, guarded by a dragon, or something like that, until someone rescues her. Sigfried is not afraid and he is able to overcome all the obstacles that keep him away from her because "Brumhilda's worth it". I loved this bit. This is exactly what Django will have to do, climb the mountain, slain the dragon, overcome every obstacle because his Brumhilda's worth it :-) The character played by Di Caprio is a real so-rich-I-can-do-what-I-want-Outside/so-bastard-what-I-like-is-to-hurt-kill-and-generally-use-people-like-trash-Inside. Leonardo Di Caprio is always good, and here it is proved by the fact that one wants to smash that pretty little head of his after two minutes of knowing him.
If you remember that this is a Tarantino movie the end will not surprise you/ disappoint you, because you won't be bothered by little details like 'he is at her right when he shoots her and yet she falls right back': it's a cool scene and that's totally Tarantino.
Also, when you see his face remember what's the life-expectancy of all his characters. This way what happens next won't be neither a surprise nor a disappointment, because you're going to get all the Tarantino-style you were expecting!
Little side note: there's also a scene where Django meets the 'original Django' Franco Nero who says "I know" when Django points out that the D is mute. :-D
I liked everyone in this film. Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx were great, just absolutely great. Leonardo Di Caprio e Samuel L. Jackson... I suppose the fact that you can' t wait to see the first die and the second suffer (and die) means they're playing well their roles, doesn't it? I think it does.
The point of this blog is for me to talk about it so that when one day I'll have forgotten all about it I may remember something after reading this, so spoilers cannot be avoided, so be warned!
A German bounty-hunter (Christoph Waltz) frees Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, because he needs him. Django knows the faces of three criminals, and he doesn't.
So, you may think the film will be their search for those 3 criminals, but that part is over in no time, and you think What now? Then Django starts working as a bounty-hunter with his new friend, and here I thought, oh now he'll spend all winter learning the job, learning how to shoot, but no, this part also was over in no time. No need to learn anything, despite the fact that he was a slave, that he can barely read with difficulty, he can already shoot like.. well I'd say even better than Tex Willer, for those who know him (comic book). Again, what now? The film is 2hours and 38 minutes long! Still a long way to go! But it's at this point that the big story starts, because now Django wants to free his wife, and since they're now partners but also friends, they're going to do it together. Of course. Now the wife is legally the property of a real (insert insult here), but the most hideous character of all is his servant Steven (Samuel L. Jackson), a black slave who after many years has reached the highest position a slave can reach, and he is now a slaver himself because he likes to see those poor men and women in their place. I mean, young Calvin (Leonardo Di Caprio) is the son of a wealthy southern family and frankly has never known anything different, although this is not an excuse because he is someone you hate instantly, but Steven is even worse. Anyway, this is not exactly the final showdown, because first they meet, then Kingschultz proposes to buy a slave fighter for a lot of money, in this way they are introduced in the house, to meet the family and the other servants. Kingschultz is very close to obtaining that servant Brumhilda would be given to him as a bonus, because she speaks German, when Steven ruins everything guessing the real interest of Django and Kingschultz and revealing it to his master. Calvin shows again how bad he is, but the deal still goes on and everything could be arranged, but for one point. Calvin insists, badly, that they shake hands to seal the deal, but this is too much, Kingschultz despises him too much to accept that, he just can't, his being is repulsed at the idea, until he can't bear with it anymore and shoots Calvin dead in his own house. Of course he gets killed and Django captured and sent away as a slave again, but now he's changed and too close to his wife to give up. He tricks the three man that are taking him away (one of them is played by Tarantino himself) and comes back to kill them all ( he lets the slave go free, kills everybody else, and Steven) and burns down the house, and goes away with his wife.
Now, this Kingschultz character is immediately adorable and funny. He has his personal code of honor, he goes around killing men that are wanted by the law of the US, dead or alive and he has already chosen that dead is easier. From the first moment he spoke with respect to Django, like speaking to a fellow man and not to a slave. He despises slavery entirely. He is sweet and romantic in his own way and his heart's full of nostalgia when he hears that Django's wife is called Brumhilda and she even speaks German! He tells Django a story he says it's very famous where he comes from: Brumhilda's father, angry with her, locks her at the top of a dangerous mountain, guarded by a dragon, or something like that, until someone rescues her. Sigfried is not afraid and he is able to overcome all the obstacles that keep him away from her because "Brumhilda's worth it". I loved this bit. This is exactly what Django will have to do, climb the mountain, slain the dragon, overcome every obstacle because his Brumhilda's worth it :-) The character played by Di Caprio is a real so-rich-I-can-do-what-I-want-Outside/so-bastard-what-I-like-is-to-hurt-kill-and-generally-use-people-like-trash-Inside. Leonardo Di Caprio is always good, and here it is proved by the fact that one wants to smash that pretty little head of his after two minutes of knowing him.
If you remember that this is a Tarantino movie the end will not surprise you/ disappoint you, because you won't be bothered by little details like 'he is at her right when he shoots her and yet she falls right back': it's a cool scene and that's totally Tarantino.
Also, when you see his face remember what's the life-expectancy of all his characters. This way what happens next won't be neither a surprise nor a disappointment, because you're going to get all the Tarantino-style you were expecting!
Little side note: there's also a scene where Django meets the 'original Django' Franco Nero who says "I know" when Django points out that the D is mute. :-D
I liked everyone in this film. Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx were great, just absolutely great. Leonardo Di Caprio e Samuel L. Jackson... I suppose the fact that you can' t wait to see the first die and the second suffer (and die) means they're playing well their roles, doesn't it? I think it does.
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