Reviews from Box 61 day 2
Day two started out great with THE BRAVE ONE at 11:45am at the Ryerson -- Was a Neil Jordan (the crying game) film starring Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard -- Great film very well made, went over the multidimensional nature of Fear, grief, and surviving life altering experiences. Wonderful performances.
Film two, 2:45pm again at the Ryerson, LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE one of two french films today that I wish I had missed. Two hours I will not be getting back, what bothers me is there was no POINT to either of them, the other was film #5 at midnight at the Ry --FRONTIERES --- while ballon was "fly on the wall" of a woman and her child and a nanny/film student, no plot very little to care about. Frontieres was just a bunch of cliched horror film settings and was mostly an excuse for gratuitous gore and blood. I like gore and blood sometime more than the rest of them but for God's sake give me a plot, a story, some logical bond as an excuse to watch someone die or get maimed horribly. Ok enough of that.
Film three -- CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA I love Michael Moore, that is my bias. I think he goes a little overboard and is too sentimental sometimes as a documentarian, but he is honest and aboveboard about his biases, and I admire that. So when Kerry dropped the ball Mike and a lot of artists picked it up on his behalf and tried to get more democratic people out to vote. What they did succeed at what getting more young voters out to vote than ever before in history and the great majority of them voted for Kerry -- just like the Titanic we know how that worked out. A lot of the issues he touched on need to be HARPED (no pun intended but why the hell not) on, for all of north american politics and media -- we should not be complacent as we are not innocent either, and there but for the grace of God go us all. Weak points are he admitted that he didn't include any of the violence that he and his family experienced on a number of occasions during this period, I think in the balance, for the integrity of the piece He should have, and there had to be included some young or old Republican that did not sound like some inbred fanatic, those are the easy ones to discount; the ones that are articulate, logical and sound like they know what they are talking about and that are passionate about their beliefs are the really scary ones and really the ones that Michael et al are battling. But just like SHUT UP AND SING that I saw last year the main ideas that I came away with were: 1-- The powers that be in the U.S. find ideas very threatening and scary(ironically what they accused the USSR of for more than 60 years) 2-- The Powers in the U.S. find it easy to use their constitution as a tool for posturing at the world but when it comes down to actually walking the walk so to speak, they don't. Hypocrasy rules. Good film as it caused me to think about this and actually write it.
Film four -- Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION -- very good film -- good story of a group of people trying to eak out some meaning in their lives set against the cultural revolution in mainland China and Hong Kong in the thirties during the Japanese incursions into china before the second world war. time line is a little fuzzy for me but I don't think terribly important -- very powerful film full of powerful in an understated fashion about passions, emotional and political and the fuzzy lines that people undercover find themselves crossing and recrossing. What is real? What matters?
Film two, 2:45pm again at the Ryerson, LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE one of two french films today that I wish I had missed. Two hours I will not be getting back, what bothers me is there was no POINT to either of them, the other was film #5 at midnight at the Ry --FRONTIERES --- while ballon was "fly on the wall" of a woman and her child and a nanny/film student, no plot very little to care about. Frontieres was just a bunch of cliched horror film settings and was mostly an excuse for gratuitous gore and blood. I like gore and blood sometime more than the rest of them but for God's sake give me a plot, a story, some logical bond as an excuse to watch someone die or get maimed horribly. Ok enough of that.
Film three -- CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA I love Michael Moore, that is my bias. I think he goes a little overboard and is too sentimental sometimes as a documentarian, but he is honest and aboveboard about his biases, and I admire that. So when Kerry dropped the ball Mike and a lot of artists picked it up on his behalf and tried to get more democratic people out to vote. What they did succeed at what getting more young voters out to vote than ever before in history and the great majority of them voted for Kerry -- just like the Titanic we know how that worked out. A lot of the issues he touched on need to be HARPED (no pun intended but why the hell not) on, for all of north american politics and media -- we should not be complacent as we are not innocent either, and there but for the grace of God go us all. Weak points are he admitted that he didn't include any of the violence that he and his family experienced on a number of occasions during this period, I think in the balance, for the integrity of the piece He should have, and there had to be included some young or old Republican that did not sound like some inbred fanatic, those are the easy ones to discount; the ones that are articulate, logical and sound like they know what they are talking about and that are passionate about their beliefs are the really scary ones and really the ones that Michael et al are battling. But just like SHUT UP AND SING that I saw last year the main ideas that I came away with were: 1-- The powers that be in the U.S. find ideas very threatening and scary(ironically what they accused the USSR of for more than 60 years) 2-- The Powers in the U.S. find it easy to use their constitution as a tool for posturing at the world but when it comes down to actually walking the walk so to speak, they don't. Hypocrasy rules. Good film as it caused me to think about this and actually write it.
Film four -- Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION -- very good film -- good story of a group of people trying to eak out some meaning in their lives set against the cultural revolution in mainland China and Hong Kong in the thirties during the Japanese incursions into china before the second world war. time line is a little fuzzy for me but I don't think terribly important -- very powerful film full of powerful in an understated fashion about passions, emotional and political and the fuzzy lines that people undercover find themselves crossing and recrossing. What is real? What matters?
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