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Mirror Mirror - Review
Aug. 11th, 2012 11:25 pm1. Finished watching Mirror Mirror courtesy of netflix. Well not exactly courtesy of, I paid for the privilege. Just not that much. Movies are expensive in NYC, which is why I don't go that often. Which would you pick? Rent ten movies a month for $14 in the comfort of your home or go to a crappy movie theater to see 1 movie for $15? (Granted the movies I've rented have been sitting on my tv stand for the last month...so its more like renting three movies for $14 a month, but whatever.)
Outside of some intriguing special effects and odd set and costume design choices...the movie is a bit dull. So definitely not worth the price of a movie theater. I also realized towards the end that the Grimm Fairy Tales are incredibly repetitive in structure. [ETC: Televised or film versions of Grimm Fairy Tales...and musical interpretations and adaptations. Also, I'm sure there are exceptions out there. So it's limited to the one's I've seen. The actual Fairy Tales collected by the Grimms are far more complex, of course.]
Evil Step-mother or Fairy with magical powers does everything possible to destroy young girl's chances of happiness, often imprisoning her or attempting to kill her, but a handsome prince's love breaks her free.
This one, at least, had the princess freeing the prince from the awful spell. ( spoilers )
Been reading Under the Skin by Michael Faber, which is about as far from a romance novel as one can get. This is a book that sort of defies description. You can't really describe it without giving it away. It relies almost entirely on the reveal or plot twist. The book is a mystery of sorts - but the mystery is what in the hell the protagonist is doing, what she physically is, and who she's involved with and why they are doing whatever it is they are doing with the hitch-hiker's she's picking up on the side of the road.
It feels a bit like Philip K. Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer K Eldritch meets Animal Farm by way of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal/Guillivar's Travels and Rod Sterling's Planet of Apes, with maybe the short story "To Serve Man" thrown in - on an acid trip.
Gripping yes. Also erotic, in a really disturbing and somewhat creepy way. Not to mention just plain weird. Plus a whole new take on the gender bias/gender war theme - which seems to be permeating my reading and viewing choices of late.
Does however remind me not to ever go hitch-hiking or to pick up hitch-hikers, and how relieved I am to be living in a large city where such things are unnecessary. You may find cities scary...but the rural and small town regions of the world scare me more. Wide open spaces with nothing but open farm-land and barbed fences for miles and miles...are the locals that most horror stories are derived from.
Outside of some intriguing special effects and odd set and costume design choices...the movie is a bit dull. So definitely not worth the price of a movie theater. I also realized towards the end that the Grimm Fairy Tales are incredibly repetitive in structure. [ETC: Televised or film versions of Grimm Fairy Tales...and musical interpretations and adaptations. Also, I'm sure there are exceptions out there. So it's limited to the one's I've seen. The actual Fairy Tales collected by the Grimms are far more complex, of course.]
Evil Step-mother or Fairy with magical powers does everything possible to destroy young girl's chances of happiness, often imprisoning her or attempting to kill her, but a handsome prince's love breaks her free.
This one, at least, had the princess freeing the prince from the awful spell. ( spoilers )
Been reading Under the Skin by Michael Faber, which is about as far from a romance novel as one can get. This is a book that sort of defies description. You can't really describe it without giving it away. It relies almost entirely on the reveal or plot twist. The book is a mystery of sorts - but the mystery is what in the hell the protagonist is doing, what she physically is, and who she's involved with and why they are doing whatever it is they are doing with the hitch-hiker's she's picking up on the side of the road.
It feels a bit like Philip K. Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer K Eldritch meets Animal Farm by way of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal/Guillivar's Travels and Rod Sterling's Planet of Apes, with maybe the short story "To Serve Man" thrown in - on an acid trip.
Gripping yes. Also erotic, in a really disturbing and somewhat creepy way. Not to mention just plain weird. Plus a whole new take on the gender bias/gender war theme - which seems to be permeating my reading and viewing choices of late.
Does however remind me not to ever go hitch-hiking or to pick up hitch-hikers, and how relieved I am to be living in a large city where such things are unnecessary. You may find cities scary...but the rural and small town regions of the world scare me more. Wide open spaces with nothing but open farm-land and barbed fences for miles and miles...are the locals that most horror stories are derived from.