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Mar. 9th, 2018 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. So, to celebrate my birthday, I took the day off and went to see "A Wrinkle in Time", which was a lovely movie. It's sort of like a sci-fi fantasy poem of sorts. I cried through a good portion of it.
To understand my feelings about the book, you probably should know that it was among the first science-fiction fantasy novels that I read, and I read it when I was in the fifth or sixth grade, around 1979-1980. Also, it was a birthday gift from my mother's elder sister, Audrey, who at that time was a school librarian for the Sixth Grade, out in Vegas. Apparently they have schools that are only for the sixth grade out in Vegas. It didn't strike me as that odd at the time, now..
My Aunt adored books. Particularly science-fiction and fantasy, and she introduced it to me via birthday gifts, and telling me the stories she'd read. Often her re-tellings were better than the books themselves. She'd advertise the story, prior to handing over the treasure.
She's dead now. Died about a month before the Buffy episode "The Body" aired. Which I felt really captured how I felt when I was told she'd died. It was in 2000 or thereabouts. I just know it was before that episode first aired, because I tend to associate that episode with her death.
The story, Wrinkle in Time, is a lovely one about finding the light in ourselves to fend off the darkness that threatens to devour us. Meg journeys with her younger brother, and new friend Calvin to the far reaches of the universe with the aid of three magical beings of light, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit, to find her scientist father who'd disappeared over four years ago with no explanation. The general theme is the universe flows in and out of us all. And things aren't gone, just folded within time. The Wrinkle is how the characters move through time and space with their mind.
It's a film that requires one to think with one's heart not one's head...to think poetically or metaphorically.
The cinematography and special effects are rather well down and beautifully rendered. It is slow in a few places, but overall, I found it to be a lovely children's film and in keeping with the heart of the book.
2. On the way home, picked up a filet mignon, some veggies, spinach salad, red zifandel, and chocolates.
And it was a lovely day. Clear blue sky with clusters of clouds floating through. A soft cool breeze, in the upper thirties, and sunny.
Also got my Amazon Fire HD 8...which I'm using to play music at the moment. I'm a little frustrated with how tough it is to turn it on and get passed the ads. But overwise, I like it better than the IPAD much more user friendly for my needs.
3. Saw Lucifer this morning. It's in trouble ratings wise, may or may not be renewed. I can sort of understand why. It is a bit on the weak side this season -- too much emphasis on procedural mystery of the week, which the writers seem to lose interest in half-way through. Also, it's gotten a bit wacky.
That said, I'm enjoying it. Found this week's episode to be rather funny in a few spots. And they seem to be circling back around to the Chloe/Lucifer relationship. Not sure where they are headed with Pierce exactly.
But bringing Able back from the dead didn't quite work. Also bringing him back to life isn't quite the same as rewriting history or erasing the dead. But good try, Lucy.
I still think Chloe may be the key somehow.
To understand my feelings about the book, you probably should know that it was among the first science-fiction fantasy novels that I read, and I read it when I was in the fifth or sixth grade, around 1979-1980. Also, it was a birthday gift from my mother's elder sister, Audrey, who at that time was a school librarian for the Sixth Grade, out in Vegas. Apparently they have schools that are only for the sixth grade out in Vegas. It didn't strike me as that odd at the time, now..
My Aunt adored books. Particularly science-fiction and fantasy, and she introduced it to me via birthday gifts, and telling me the stories she'd read. Often her re-tellings were better than the books themselves. She'd advertise the story, prior to handing over the treasure.
She's dead now. Died about a month before the Buffy episode "The Body" aired. Which I felt really captured how I felt when I was told she'd died. It was in 2000 or thereabouts. I just know it was before that episode first aired, because I tend to associate that episode with her death.
The story, Wrinkle in Time, is a lovely one about finding the light in ourselves to fend off the darkness that threatens to devour us. Meg journeys with her younger brother, and new friend Calvin to the far reaches of the universe with the aid of three magical beings of light, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit, to find her scientist father who'd disappeared over four years ago with no explanation. The general theme is the universe flows in and out of us all. And things aren't gone, just folded within time. The Wrinkle is how the characters move through time and space with their mind.
It's a film that requires one to think with one's heart not one's head...to think poetically or metaphorically.
The cinematography and special effects are rather well down and beautifully rendered. It is slow in a few places, but overall, I found it to be a lovely children's film and in keeping with the heart of the book.
2. On the way home, picked up a filet mignon, some veggies, spinach salad, red zifandel, and chocolates.
And it was a lovely day. Clear blue sky with clusters of clouds floating through. A soft cool breeze, in the upper thirties, and sunny.
Also got my Amazon Fire HD 8...which I'm using to play music at the moment. I'm a little frustrated with how tough it is to turn it on and get passed the ads. But overwise, I like it better than the IPAD much more user friendly for my needs.
3. Saw Lucifer this morning. It's in trouble ratings wise, may or may not be renewed. I can sort of understand why. It is a bit on the weak side this season -- too much emphasis on procedural mystery of the week, which the writers seem to lose interest in half-way through. Also, it's gotten a bit wacky.
That said, I'm enjoying it. Found this week's episode to be rather funny in a few spots. And they seem to be circling back around to the Chloe/Lucifer relationship. Not sure where they are headed with Pierce exactly.
But bringing Able back from the dead didn't quite work. Also bringing him back to life isn't quite the same as rewriting history or erasing the dead. But good try, Lucy.
I still think Chloe may be the key somehow.
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Date: 2018-03-10 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-10 02:42 am (UTC)Mine was, once or twice, though I would describe the overall experience as satisfaction rather than awe. “A Wrinkle in Time,” faithful to the affirmative, democratic intelligence of the book, is also committed to serving its most loyal and susceptible audience. This is, unapologetically, a children’s movie, by turns gentle, thrilling and didactic, but missing the extra dimension of terror and wonder that would have transcended the genre. Thankfully, though, Ms. DuVernay has dispensed with the winking and cutesiness that are Hollywood’s preferred ways of pandering and condescending to grown-ups. The best way to appreciate what she has done is in the company of a curious and eager 10-year-old (as I was fortunate enough to do). Or, if you’re really lucky, to locate that innocent, skeptical, openhearted version of yourself.
If you look at the film through the eyes of a child, leaving the cynical adult at home, it's a lovely film. Not ground-breaking, but satisfying. But if you bring along the critic and cynic...you will pretty much see what you want to see,
and leave it irritated.
I don't see it doing as well as Disney wants it to. But it will do well enough...it's not an action film, and it's not
ground-breaking. But it holds true to the book and is pretty much exactly what it advertises itself to be.
Sort of similar actually to how people read the book. A lot of adults chose to re-read the book recently and were disappointed. Or they read it for the first time and were, it didn't live up to what they expected. But, they went into it cynical and high expectations and all this baggage. Not with the heart of a young child discovering it.
I think people forget that we bring ourselves with us when we see art, our moods, our rages, our opinions, our cynicism, our desires, our expectations...and all of that can often get in the way of seeing the art. I read two reviews, and one was AO Scott's who loved it like I did, and the other was Darren Farench (EW critic) who hated it because he went in with well film critic expectations.