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Ok, just watched The Academy Awards (well, the ending that I'd recorded). Did Quentin Tarantino piss The Academy off somehow? I mean, really, no awards at all? 'Inglorious Basterds' definitely deserved the Cinematography Award at the very least. I'm not even a huge fan of QT's, but that movie was freaking gorgeous; I swear you could take any frame of it and have a striking work of art. Isn't that kind of the whole point of that award?
Went and saw 'The Book of Eli' yesterday. I'm... not really sure what to say about it to be honest. It was a neat looking film with a bleak almost colourless tonality (I think that's the right word) in both the wardrobe and the striking post-apocalyptic desert sets that felt wonderfully gritty with the sand swirling against steel gray skys and around ruins. I'd totally watch it again just because of how it was shot, but as for the plot... maybe I'm not looking at it right or am just too dense, but it had me quite baffled in parts and left me thinking it was totally pointless in the end. I don't know.
For those who have seen it: can you help explain the film or at least why people were so wasteful?
Ok, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic desert as I said and people are pretty much running out of everything especially food. So... Why did everyone just leave the dead to rot?
Maybe I have a "lack of moral fiber" or whatev, but I can't help thinking that you could get a lot of use out of them. You'd get meat for food and fat for candles or lotion/lip-balm (which yeah, gross, but probably more effective and longer lasting then "cat oil") along with skin and hair for clothing and whatever you can think of. I'm not suggesting that they should start stalking and murdering people like livestock (that'd be just as wrong then as murder or eating human flesh is right now), but why not use the people who are already dead?
I don't know, I just don't understand how they could kill 5 people in self-defense, take a lighter/pair of boots than just leave behind so much waste that could help sustain a whole family (that would otherwise die) for days, weeks, possibly even months if handled right.
...I'm totally going to Hell for only taking that thought from the movie, aren't I?
Went and saw 'The Book of Eli' yesterday. I'm... not really sure what to say about it to be honest. It was a neat looking film with a bleak almost colourless tonality (I think that's the right word) in both the wardrobe and the striking post-apocalyptic desert sets that felt wonderfully gritty with the sand swirling against steel gray skys and around ruins. I'd totally watch it again just because of how it was shot, but as for the plot... maybe I'm not looking at it right or am just too dense, but it had me quite baffled in parts and left me thinking it was totally pointless in the end. I don't know.
For those who have seen it: can you help explain the film or at least why people were so wasteful?
Ok, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic desert as I said and people are pretty much running out of everything especially food. So... Why did everyone just leave the dead to rot?
Maybe I have a "lack of moral fiber" or whatev, but I can't help thinking that you could get a lot of use out of them. You'd get meat for food and fat for candles or lotion/lip-balm (which yeah, gross, but probably more effective and longer lasting then "cat oil") along with skin and hair for clothing and whatever you can think of. I'm not suggesting that they should start stalking and murdering people like livestock (that'd be just as wrong then as murder or eating human flesh is right now), but why not use the people who are already dead?
I don't know, I just don't understand how they could kill 5 people in self-defense, take a lighter/pair of boots than just leave behind so much waste that could help sustain a whole family (that would otherwise die) for days, weeks, possibly even months if handled right.
...I'm totally going to Hell for only taking that thought from the movie, aren't I?