totally random ~

[lookingland]

match game at the baltimore buffalo invitational

i've been a bit overwhelmed by life and whatnot, so i apologize for not responding much lately. visiting relatives, depressing job stuff, distractions, new pope ponderings, much movie-watching, etc.

that's it in a nutshell.

hence, the random picture of buffaloes from baltimore ~ apparently they wandered from some ranch and wound up in the city.

the movie scorecard:

Finding Neverland ~ bland melodrama ~ didn't hate it, but there's not much there and it's so historically inaccurate as to be silly. (am i the only one who finds j.m. barrie ~ and Peter Pan ~ totally creepy?)

Million Dollar Baby ~ really enjoyed this movie until the resolution. booooooooo! bad! yuck! huge disappointment. clint! what were you thinking!

Sin City ~ excrement. what a waste of fine artistic direction. no fan of frank miller here to begin with and the film has solidified my disgust for his work.

Vanity Fair ~ this was interesting but had some feh transitions that were rather perplexing (much like the book, i suppose). mostly satisfying, but nothing to yodel about.

i'm pretty sure i saw something else recently, but now i can't remember what it was.

ah well. there you have it.

: D


i need to try to get some writing done.

Comments

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it's really too bad because the film is otherwise wonderful! but it's lack of redemption and how it gives in to total moral destruction is just sad sad sad.

i'm not sure how we're supposed to feel at the end of the movie. part of me thinks that we're supposed to feel outraged and disgusted. but i think the film doesn't give us enough to think about somehow.

at the end, clint eastwood's character's priest warns him against taking action and yet he does it anyway, so i think the film has a moral center, but confuses itself in the end. my sister at first thought it was a good ending because he put her out of her suffering and it was what she wanted, but when i explained to her that in doing so it destroyed everyone else in the film (which it does), then she rethought her assessment and came around to agreeing that it wasn't such a good thing after all.

to be honest, i don't think most people think deeply enough to get there.

so i sorta fault the movie for not being a little more ham-fisted about the depravity of the final choice, for not clarifying that the girl's selfish willfulness ruins others' lives, etc.

it's worth watching. but i think it fails in the end to raise the moral question clearly enough.