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butterflydreaming) wrote2006-02-19 02:48 pm
butterflydreaming) wrote2006-02-19 02:48 pm
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And a Ginormous Cat!
I am surrounded by muppets:
Yesterday I went to the nicest movie theater in Seattle, the Majestic Bay, to see (after much delay) Brokeback Mountain. It made me more angry than sad, in a Moby-esque "Everything is Wrong" kind of way. An excellent movie, not over-hyped, well-made and subtle in the right places.
It seems unbalanced to recommend another same-sex-love movie in the same breath, but last week I saw Imagine Me & You, which is complete fluff by comparison... but not the stupid fluff it might seem to be, if you take away the comparison with an Academy Award level film. I kind of can't stand the Beatles, but the story follows right out of the song as if the song were a story prompt; it's kind of funny.
I can recommend this movie because it has character depth created by the quality of the acting. I suspect that the script would be garbage without that. The dialog would have been unmercifully predictable had I not been completely charmed by the performances. Anthony Stuart Head (Giles, from BtVS -- do I even need to tell you that?) plays the father in a wonderfully vague, distracted, rumpled way. He had me spilling a few tears, but then, I always cry at the wrong things, don't I?
Oh, and that one has a happy ending, in a believable way.
You're a wanker, Number 9.
In other news, there is a GINORMOUS cat at L's workplace. He was abandoned a few days ago, left in a carrier in the back hallway with an expensive-looking knit blanket. He weighs over 23 pounds without being fat, has a head as big as a Fuji apple, and is bright-eyed and gentle. Unlike most abandoned cats, he isn't acting angry and resentful. He has a better personality than my Aya.
There is a high likelyhood that he's part wildy, but since the illegality of that mix would be a death sentence for him, we're saying he's just, y'know, a very big silver tabby with a manx tail. No tufts on the ears, thankfully.
Should you feel inclined to come out and see him, there is West 5 next door, and Elliott Bay Brewery across the street, and W.Seattle's Matador... and Tom Yum Koon Thai... and Than Bro.s Pho, with their options of meat, seafood, & vegetarian pho, down the street... .
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Yesterday I went to the nicest movie theater in Seattle, the Majestic Bay, to see (after much delay) Brokeback Mountain. It made me more angry than sad, in a Moby-esque "Everything is Wrong" kind of way. An excellent movie, not over-hyped, well-made and subtle in the right places.
It seems unbalanced to recommend another same-sex-love movie in the same breath, but last week I saw Imagine Me & You, which is complete fluff by comparison... but not the stupid fluff it might seem to be, if you take away the comparison with an Academy Award level film. I kind of can't stand the Beatles, but the story follows right out of the song as if the song were a story prompt; it's kind of funny.
I can recommend this movie because it has character depth created by the quality of the acting. I suspect that the script would be garbage without that. The dialog would have been unmercifully predictable had I not been completely charmed by the performances. Anthony Stuart Head (Giles, from BtVS -- do I even need to tell you that?) plays the father in a wonderfully vague, distracted, rumpled way. He had me spilling a few tears, but then, I always cry at the wrong things, don't I?
Oh, and that one has a happy ending, in a believable way.
You're a wanker, Number 9.
In other news, there is a GINORMOUS cat at L's workplace. He was abandoned a few days ago, left in a carrier in the back hallway with an expensive-looking knit blanket. He weighs over 23 pounds without being fat, has a head as big as a Fuji apple, and is bright-eyed and gentle. Unlike most abandoned cats, he isn't acting angry and resentful. He has a better personality than my Aya.
There is a high likelyhood that he's part wildy, but since the illegality of that mix would be a death sentence for him, we're saying he's just, y'know, a very big silver tabby with a manx tail. No tufts on the ears, thankfully.
Should you feel inclined to come out and see him, there is West 5 next door, and Elliott Bay Brewery across the street, and W.Seattle's Matador... and Tom Yum Koon Thai... and Than Bro.s Pho, with their options of meat, seafood, & vegetarian pho, down the street... .
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I saw the preview for Imagine Me and You the last time I went to see Brokeback Mountain, and was immediately intrigued. Want to see it, now that you've recced it.
*bing!* I'm so stupid sometimes. I just realized what, apart from sad, Brokeback Mountain made me feel. Angry. Low-level constant thrumming anger! That's partly why that movie stayed with me for so long, and why I've struggled with the hangover from it. Forest. Trees. Me. Not seeing. Stupid, as I said.
Good grief. What will I be like when I eventually see Crash?
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I haven't seen Crash, either.
Brokeback Mt is what my best friend calls a "two aspirin movie". It puts you in such emotional turmoil, stirring up the levels, that you feel like you have to take two aspirin and lie down someplace quiet for a while. Anger, sadness, frustration, sympathy... and the anger comes from several places.
Angry is good. Angry makes things Change.
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It hit me in the viscera and my brain is having a hard time sorting through some things that are not purely cerebral. And part of me thinks that I need a really good cry about it, and another part thinks that if I start crying I may never stop because I have a lot of repressed emotion that might be unleashed and then I wouldn't be in control, would I.
How useful is a catharsis if you won't use it?
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(Anonymous) 2006-02-20 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
BTW, I have no idea who anonymous (below) is.
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