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i can't believe it.
i'm still sick.
the silliest thing about this sickness is that i don't feel bad. i'm coughing. i'm exhausted from coughing (and lack of sleep from coughing). my sides ache from coughing. i don't have a fever. i don't have a runny nose. in fact, the only other symptom i do have is seeing little green elephants from all the cough suppressants i've been chugging.
i think i have the consumption.
~ * ~
when you're sick is not the time to try to make sweeping decisions about anything: your lifestyle, your creative work, the arrangement of your sock drawer ~ and yet in the last week since i've been essentially a walking, hacking whirlwind of disorder the place has fallen into such a mess. i don't dare clean though because in my current state, i'm quite sure i'd never find anything again.
~ * ~
movie review: Edges of the Lord
wish i'd gotten a screen capture since there
aren't really any good picts online. boo.
interesting film, more nazis (seems to be a theme). in this one joel haley osment is a polish Jew fleeing the persecution, pretending to be Catholic and hiding out on a farm with a strange family. Willem Dafoe plays the local priest (who's only called "Father").
some nice things in this film are the frankness and truthfulness with which the faith is presented. "Father" isn't a wishy-washy priest at all (and boy he has some nice vestments for being the pastor of a farming community!) the first time they show him serving mass he's wearing purple though and i wondered about that. later, when the kids receive their first holy Communion (the Jewish boy receiving the unconsecrated "edge" ~ hence the title), i can't remember exactly, but i think he's wearing green vestments (which would be backwards). but this is minor.
anyway, some of the plot of the movie is strange. osment being exposed as a Jew doesn't really seem the thrust of the story, though becomes an issue when it's convenient. the little boy Tolo becomes obsessed with acting the part of Jesus in their catechismal exercise and this leads to a horrific fate. osment's girlfriend gets raped after being warned by Father not to be a Magdalene ~ but then nothing really comes of it. so much isn't resolved or is resolved too easily (and badly at that).
the best scene in the whole movie happens early on when the nazis catch some poles with contraband pigs. they tell Father to catch the pigs and for each one he catches, they will spare a life. the priest tries his darndest to catch the pigs ~ but pigs are hard to catch. pretty horrific. then later the young boy Tolo re-enacts the scene in the church. he says (as innocent children are wont to): Father, you tried to catch the pigs! and then he runs around squealing and chasing, much to Father's horror. great moment.
on the whole the movie had a lot of stuff worth thinking about. i love the scene in which Father explains to osment about the unconsecrated edges while he's cutting hosts, but i think it gets lost in the more lurid background of genocide and inhumanity. overall the movie wasn't entirely well executed and i think the plot suffered from lack of coherence, but there were plenty of excellent moments and it was well-cast and well-clothed.
in the end, i think it's the sort of movie that would have made a great book.
: D
i'm still sick.
the silliest thing about this sickness is that i don't feel bad. i'm coughing. i'm exhausted from coughing (and lack of sleep from coughing). my sides ache from coughing. i don't have a fever. i don't have a runny nose. in fact, the only other symptom i do have is seeing little green elephants from all the cough suppressants i've been chugging.
i think i have the consumption.
~ * ~
when you're sick is not the time to try to make sweeping decisions about anything: your lifestyle, your creative work, the arrangement of your sock drawer ~ and yet in the last week since i've been essentially a walking, hacking whirlwind of disorder the place has fallen into such a mess. i don't dare clean though because in my current state, i'm quite sure i'd never find anything again.
~ * ~
movie review: Edges of the Lord
wish i'd gotten a screen capture since there
aren't really any good picts online. boo.
interesting film, more nazis (seems to be a theme). in this one joel haley osment is a polish Jew fleeing the persecution, pretending to be Catholic and hiding out on a farm with a strange family. Willem Dafoe plays the local priest (who's only called "Father").
some nice things in this film are the frankness and truthfulness with which the faith is presented. "Father" isn't a wishy-washy priest at all (and boy he has some nice vestments for being the pastor of a farming community!) the first time they show him serving mass he's wearing purple though and i wondered about that. later, when the kids receive their first holy Communion (the Jewish boy receiving the unconsecrated "edge" ~ hence the title), i can't remember exactly, but i think he's wearing green vestments (which would be backwards). but this is minor.
anyway, some of the plot of the movie is strange. osment being exposed as a Jew doesn't really seem the thrust of the story, though becomes an issue when it's convenient. the little boy Tolo becomes obsessed with acting the part of Jesus in their catechismal exercise and this leads to a horrific fate. osment's girlfriend gets raped after being warned by Father not to be a Magdalene ~ but then nothing really comes of it. so much isn't resolved or is resolved too easily (and badly at that).
the best scene in the whole movie happens early on when the nazis catch some poles with contraband pigs. they tell Father to catch the pigs and for each one he catches, they will spare a life. the priest tries his darndest to catch the pigs ~ but pigs are hard to catch. pretty horrific. then later the young boy Tolo re-enacts the scene in the church. he says (as innocent children are wont to): Father, you tried to catch the pigs! and then he runs around squealing and chasing, much to Father's horror. great moment.
on the whole the movie had a lot of stuff worth thinking about. i love the scene in which Father explains to osment about the unconsecrated edges while he's cutting hosts, but i think it gets lost in the more lurid background of genocide and inhumanity. overall the movie wasn't entirely well executed and i think the plot suffered from lack of coherence, but there were plenty of excellent moments and it was well-cast and well-clothed.
in the end, i think it's the sort of movie that would have made a great book.
: D
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