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Decided to see the movie Tar with Wales today.
Discovered much to my annoyance, that Wales is a very noisy and somewhat animated movie partner. During the movie, she sighed, cursed, grabbed my arm, and exclaimed "Oh God" or "Oh my God" or "Shit".
I, on the other hand, was fairly quiet in comparison.
It wasn't too big an issue - and I didn't complain about it. If anything it made the movie more interesting. But I did worry a little about the people around us.
The movie itself is a Todd Field film, and much like his other films focuses on an anti-hero and takes the audience deep inside this character's point of view. It's more of an extended character sketch - focusing on one character's emotional, mental, physical arc. Considering it was focusing only one character - it could have been a lot tighter. The movie was three hours long, and felt at times interminable. Wales and I agreed on that - actually we agreed on everything about the film.
I'm not sure it was the best film for me to see today mood wise. I might have been better off with Ticket to Paradise, this one felt a bit like a horror movie. But, I was curious about the movie - the reviews had indicated that it was a fun and twisty tour de force. (It wasn't. I'm beginning to think these reviewers are on something.)
The set-up is Lydia Tar, top composer, who studied with Leonard Bernstein, actions are starting to catch up with her. ( spoilers )
Bits of the film remind me a lot of Black Swan - so if you hated that film, I doubt you'd like this one. It's not an easy film to watch at times. And it ends oddly.
But it does stay with me. I'd have preferred one that didn't, though, this weekend.
[I was admittedly distracted during it by a recent loss in my family - another one. My cousin died this weekend. So I kept thinking about him and his Mom off and on all day long. Grief isn't a straight line or time line or linear in anyway, it is best described as a spiral. Circling up and down.]
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Just finished watching Peripheral the Amazon Prime series adapted from William Gibson's cybernetic science fiction thriller. It's good. But I also adore William Gibson's writing. He's among my favorite sci-fi writers - among the few, I'd put in the literary category of sci-fi. Hard science, with something to say, and falling more in the speculative category.
Peripheral is about two gamers in Appalachia who make their money playing video game simulations. Flynn is excellent at them - and uses her brother's avatar to play. She's female and can't play as herself - but she can play as him or in a male body. And she gets to higher levels than he does.
Little does she know that the game they are playing in 2032 is taking place in real time in London in 2099. The new headset she puts on - places her in an Avatar's mechanical body in 2099, where she feels his pain, etc, even if she just the puppeteer pulling his strings.
Well produced, acted, and with great F/X, the first episode was even better than expected. If a tad long. Amazon likes to do 85 minute episodes or episodes that are much longer than 45 minutes to an hour.
Discovered much to my annoyance, that Wales is a very noisy and somewhat animated movie partner. During the movie, she sighed, cursed, grabbed my arm, and exclaimed "Oh God" or "Oh my God" or "Shit".
I, on the other hand, was fairly quiet in comparison.
It wasn't too big an issue - and I didn't complain about it. If anything it made the movie more interesting. But I did worry a little about the people around us.
The movie itself is a Todd Field film, and much like his other films focuses on an anti-hero and takes the audience deep inside this character's point of view. It's more of an extended character sketch - focusing on one character's emotional, mental, physical arc. Considering it was focusing only one character - it could have been a lot tighter. The movie was three hours long, and felt at times interminable. Wales and I agreed on that - actually we agreed on everything about the film.
I'm not sure it was the best film for me to see today mood wise. I might have been better off with Ticket to Paradise, this one felt a bit like a horror movie. But, I was curious about the movie - the reviews had indicated that it was a fun and twisty tour de force. (It wasn't. I'm beginning to think these reviewers are on something.)
The set-up is Lydia Tar, top composer, who studied with Leonard Bernstein, actions are starting to catch up with her. ( spoilers )
Bits of the film remind me a lot of Black Swan - so if you hated that film, I doubt you'd like this one. It's not an easy film to watch at times. And it ends oddly.
But it does stay with me. I'd have preferred one that didn't, though, this weekend.
[I was admittedly distracted during it by a recent loss in my family - another one. My cousin died this weekend. So I kept thinking about him and his Mom off and on all day long. Grief isn't a straight line or time line or linear in anyway, it is best described as a spiral. Circling up and down.]
***
Just finished watching Peripheral the Amazon Prime series adapted from William Gibson's cybernetic science fiction thriller. It's good. But I also adore William Gibson's writing. He's among my favorite sci-fi writers - among the few, I'd put in the literary category of sci-fi. Hard science, with something to say, and falling more in the speculative category.
Peripheral is about two gamers in Appalachia who make their money playing video game simulations. Flynn is excellent at them - and uses her brother's avatar to play. She's female and can't play as herself - but she can play as him or in a male body. And she gets to higher levels than he does.
Little does she know that the game they are playing in 2032 is taking place in real time in London in 2099. The new headset she puts on - places her in an Avatar's mechanical body in 2099, where she feels his pain, etc, even if she just the puppeteer pulling his strings.
Well produced, acted, and with great F/X, the first episode was even better than expected. If a tad long. Amazon likes to do 85 minute episodes or episodes that are much longer than 45 minutes to an hour.
