can you be shot -spoilery- times and not die?
No... this is not another medical post, I swear.
A few weeks ago, I had seen an ad for In Bruges once and immediately categorized it internally as "another silly gangster flick." So, if it wasn't for
aleaders's suggestion and effective planning, I would have never gone to see that movie today, and I would have missed out. Where I had expected slapstick and fan-service violence, I found instead a compelling mix of dark humor and surprising emotional heft. (okay, fine, so there was a fair bit of slapstick too... but it was FUNNY! and making fun of fat Americans!) The setup (involving hitmen on hideout in Bruges) is a little contrived, but the characters are likable and the relationship between the leads got some valuable development. The winter scenery is also beautifully bleak, in that fragile Hans Christian Anderson/Little Matchgirl sort of way (as one of the characters puts it, "Bruges is like a f#&*ing fairytale!"). It just all came together in a way that made me really like the movie, a lot more than I thought I would. A lot of fun to watch, although it does leave me with some practical gore questions:
Can you shoot through someone's forehead when they're facing 90 degrees from the direction of the bullet?
Can you realistically climb a stairwell with one bullet though the leg and one through the sternocleidomastoid? (I suppose you can reasonable argue that it hit high enough to avoid the jugular and the carotids, but still)
Can you survive three gun shots to your torso, especially when one of them went on to blow off someone's ENTIRE FACE?
My instinct is no, no, and no; but hey, adrenaline can do amazing things.
A few weeks ago, I had seen an ad for In Bruges once and immediately categorized it internally as "another silly gangster flick." So, if it wasn't for
aleaders's suggestion and effective planning, I would have never gone to see that movie today, and I would have missed out. Where I had expected slapstick and fan-service violence, I found instead a compelling mix of dark humor and surprising emotional heft. (okay, fine, so there was a fair bit of slapstick too... but it was FUNNY! and making fun of fat Americans!) The setup (involving hitmen on hideout in Bruges) is a little contrived, but the characters are likable and the relationship between the leads got some valuable development. The winter scenery is also beautifully bleak, in that fragile Hans Christian Anderson/Little Matchgirl sort of way (as one of the characters puts it, "Bruges is like a f#&*ing fairytale!"). It just all came together in a way that made me really like the movie, a lot more than I thought I would. A lot of fun to watch, although it does leave me with some practical gore questions:
Can you shoot through someone's forehead when they're facing 90 degrees from the direction of the bullet?
Can you realistically climb a stairwell with one bullet though the leg and one through the sternocleidomastoid? (I suppose you can reasonable argue that it hit high enough to avoid the jugular and the carotids, but still)
Can you survive three gun shots to your torso, especially when one of them went on to blow off someone's ENTIRE FACE?
My instinct is no, no, and no; but hey, adrenaline can do amazing things.