And it will be wonderful
Reporting from Beta Blogs.
I just watched Wilby Wonderful (Crown Brief? What Crown Brief? Oh, THAT Crown Brief… Right, yeah, I’ll get on it… inna minute…)
For anybody out there who has ever watched Seachange, I highly recommend this movie (it’s an Australian Dramedy series, for those who don’t know what I’m talking about). For anybody who likes watching pretty Canadians (C6D is a fandom based on Canada and Canadians, and that’s fine by me), I highly recommend this movie.
It’s wonderful, and well and truly worth whatever it was I paid for it (one side effect of having stupid amounts of money is that I don’t keep track of what I spend on DVDs. I probably should, but after I’ve got Wimbledon, okay?).
It is entirely impossible to define. You can’t just stick it in the genre of drama or comedy or horror or anything (yes, horror, or psychological journey, whatever, there’s still a character trying to kill himself). Sometimes it’s funny, in the same way that life is funny. It’s a slow build, and it ends perfectly, because just like real life, it’s imperfect.
Callum Keith Rennie is stunning as Duck; he’s just carefully trying to make everything okay, and yes, he succeeds. Saving the world, one person at a time. Or is that changing the world? Because in the end, he’s got the beginnings of a proper happy ending. (On an unrelated note, if I could have one Canadian celebrity come into the store and buy coffee off me, it’d be CKR, and I might just faint.)
Paul Gross is astoundingly believable - sweetie, Passchendaele was great for all the battles, and great for the historical accuracy of those battles, but we’ve got a coupla notes for you on colloquialisms and usage of the word ‘Canadian’, and it’s a bit too much of a chick flick (yes, it is, it’s not a war film anymore, although I still think it’s better than dry matches), but we still love you. Anyway, Paul is note-perfect in this, again playing a Police Officer known only as Buddy, but watch his face when he figures everything out, and I think I want an icon of him in that kitchen. And the nervousness with his wife, and the fastest interrogation ever. Oh, spiffy.
Sandra Oh. Apparently, this lady went to my Canadian High School; they’ve got all sorts of newspaper clippings cut out and framed about her. Anyway, I’ve not watched Grey’s Anatomy, but if I did, I’d watch it for her.
The film itself is lovely. There are some truly amazing shots that rely almost solely upon the scenery to work, and as though the scenery gods are smiling, it works beautifully. And then the tricky shots, generally involving Sandra, I mean, just, wow (symbolism? She sees herself as almost too complex for the island - I mean, we know she’s a mainlander, right? Hrm…). Is Duck dyslexic, or is he not (um… no. Distracted?). The sheer absurdity that an island in Canada with such a minuscule population would actually have its own municipal police service, rather than being contracted out to the RCMP or whichever Provincial Police Service that happens to be available as would ordinarily be expected. Then again, maybe that’s got more to do with the fact that it is such a small, insular island; they don’t like mainlanders, they don’t like anything that’s different. And having outsiders come in and tell them what to do? Yeah, that’d be different (this is also my theory regarding Dog River and its police, although that doesn’t explain Karen, whom I suspect applied from -legasp!- out of town, but that’s talking about Corner Gas and not Wilby Wonderful, so I’ll shut up now…)
To sum up, I wasn’t sure about watching this film, but I’m eternally glad that I did. Just another reason to get a multizone player when I get back to New Zealand.
I just watched Wilby Wonderful (Crown Brief? What Crown Brief? Oh, THAT Crown Brief… Right, yeah, I’ll get on it… inna minute…)
For anybody out there who has ever watched Seachange, I highly recommend this movie (it’s an Australian Dramedy series, for those who don’t know what I’m talking about). For anybody who likes watching pretty Canadians (C6D is a fandom based on Canada and Canadians, and that’s fine by me), I highly recommend this movie.
It’s wonderful, and well and truly worth whatever it was I paid for it (one side effect of having stupid amounts of money is that I don’t keep track of what I spend on DVDs. I probably should, but after I’ve got Wimbledon, okay?).
It is entirely impossible to define. You can’t just stick it in the genre of drama or comedy or horror or anything (yes, horror, or psychological journey, whatever, there’s still a character trying to kill himself). Sometimes it’s funny, in the same way that life is funny. It’s a slow build, and it ends perfectly, because just like real life, it’s imperfect.
Callum Keith Rennie is stunning as Duck; he’s just carefully trying to make everything okay, and yes, he succeeds. Saving the world, one person at a time. Or is that changing the world? Because in the end, he’s got the beginnings of a proper happy ending. (On an unrelated note, if I could have one Canadian celebrity come into the store and buy coffee off me, it’d be CKR, and I might just faint.)
Paul Gross is astoundingly believable - sweetie, Passchendaele was great for all the battles, and great for the historical accuracy of those battles, but we’ve got a coupla notes for you on colloquialisms and usage of the word ‘Canadian’, and it’s a bit too much of a chick flick (yes, it is, it’s not a war film anymore, although I still think it’s better than dry matches), but we still love you. Anyway, Paul is note-perfect in this, again playing a Police Officer known only as Buddy, but watch his face when he figures everything out, and I think I want an icon of him in that kitchen. And the nervousness with his wife, and the fastest interrogation ever. Oh, spiffy.
Sandra Oh. Apparently, this lady went to my Canadian High School; they’ve got all sorts of newspaper clippings cut out and framed about her. Anyway, I’ve not watched Grey’s Anatomy, but if I did, I’d watch it for her.
The film itself is lovely. There are some truly amazing shots that rely almost solely upon the scenery to work, and as though the scenery gods are smiling, it works beautifully. And then the tricky shots, generally involving Sandra, I mean, just, wow (symbolism? She sees herself as almost too complex for the island - I mean, we know she’s a mainlander, right? Hrm…). Is Duck dyslexic, or is he not (um… no. Distracted?). The sheer absurdity that an island in Canada with such a minuscule population would actually have its own municipal police service, rather than being contracted out to the RCMP or whichever Provincial Police Service that happens to be available as would ordinarily be expected. Then again, maybe that’s got more to do with the fact that it is such a small, insular island; they don’t like mainlanders, they don’t like anything that’s different. And having outsiders come in and tell them what to do? Yeah, that’d be different (this is also my theory regarding Dog River and its police, although that doesn’t explain Karen, whom I suspect applied from -legasp!- out of town, but that’s talking about Corner Gas and not Wilby Wonderful, so I’ll shut up now…)
To sum up, I wasn’t sure about watching this film, but I’m eternally glad that I did. Just another reason to get a multizone player when I get back to New Zealand.