mekkab's Journal: Weekend Netflix redux

The Village: thank god my wife snuck it on the queue. This was a fun-ass movie. A period piece, a hero quest (with a blind girl as the hero), a commentary on communes and the base nature of greed within humans, and just a little bit of spooky thrown in. All of you who said it sucked are stupid. Like, totally! And the moment I saw the red-cloaks I fell in love. I now know what my halloween costume will be next year!

Through a Glass Darkly: I was soo not feeling this movie. What is it with "auteurs" throwing incest into a movie for no apparent reason?! Does this make them edgy? Worst place. Whats-her-faces physical performance of her hallucinations was cool. Winter Light is up for next week. Lets hope for better.

Tipping The Velvet: You can't go wrong with olde timey lesbians. There were parts where it was good, which is probably a reflection of the book. There were parts where it was cheesy, probably a reflection of the adapters (this was a bbc telly series).

Through the Glass Darkly

[sielwolf]

is the worst of the three. I like Winter Light as a simple parable of faith and fate. The Silence might be better. It takes place in a hotel in some country with an unrecognizable language where there is a buildup to an unseen war. If Renais' Last Year at Marienbad was available on DVD I'd suggest pairing The Silence with it.

Through the Glass Darkly is about exploitation of the weak fed from a naive notion of altruism. The incest part is probably the one that is the most forced. Of course I can't reme

Re:Through the Glass Darkly

[mekkab]

If it did, the actual coupling with her brother was more of a revenge at her husband: that the crude sexual desire of her brother was actually less of a transgression than the supposedly academic explotiation of his diary.

Ahhh, it did. Thanks. Doesn't make it allright, but at least it makes it understandable.

Glad to hear Winter Light gets better.

The Village aka The Scary Door

[sielwolf]

The Village seemed like one of the Futurerama "Scary Door" spoofs of The Twilight Zone. It was so self-satisfied in its own mystique (I'll still agree that Shyamalan is a fantastic director and can craft some real tension) that it tried to sneak an Idiot Plot by the audience:

Narrator: You are entering the realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic or contains some kind of monster. The second one. Prepare to enter... The Scary Door. Please send a man 'round back and pick up Clyde Smith, a professional gamble

Re:The Village aka The Scary Door

[mekkab]

It was so self-satisfied in its own mystique (I'll still agree that Shyamalan is a fantastic director and can craft some real tension) that it tried to sneak an Idiot Plot by the audience

b-b-b-b-but there was something else to that movie; perhaps the performance of the ensemble cast? perhaps the music, the cinematography, the bottle of wine we had just drank... whatever it was. Something about it did not penetrate the suspension-of-disbelief barrier; FOR ME (and me alone (well, my wife too)) I was perfectl

Re:The Village aka The Scary Door

[StalinsNotDead]

What about Admiral Crunch or Arch-Duke Chocula?

Tipping the velvet

[Tet]

Like you say, you can't really go wrong with ye olde time lesbians. I liked it. It was light hearted in the right places, and serious where it needed to be. It's gained a somewhat mythic status among the lesbians I know. There's also filmed adaptation of one of her other lesbian novels, "Fingersmith", but I haven't seen it yet.