Kick-Ass!!
So I managed to drag T with me to the special screening of Kick-Ass tonight, and oh my god yes what a movie! It was a crazy violent film, and one kind of had to get into that mind-frame to be able to enjoy it, leave the anti-violence hat at home and just swallow the revenge theme.. And enjoy the homage to pretty much every action and superhero-film ever. Hit-Girl is THE fiercest and coolest female non-superhero, and she totally steals the film. But also Kick-Ass himself is the most endearing geek on film in a long time. It might have been slightly more interesting if they had kept him as a non-killer through out the film, instead of making him into the gun-toting, bazooka shooting hero at the end, and also not too sure about that flying rocket thing, but of my GOD Aaron Johnson is SO PRETTY through out the film. He's incredibly interesting in some ways, totally objectified in a very non-traditional way, I'm intrigued by all the watching-himself-in-the-mirror-scenes. Not as fond of the posing-as-gay-best-friend thing, BUT he's not campy when trying to be gay so that's something perhaps?..
But in a purely aesthetically appreciative way, that boy is SO cute. And I feel slightly dirty for saying so, he's a baby and only 19 (but engaged to and apparently expecting a child with a 23-years-older woman, thank you imdb, so me being 13 years older than him is in no way creepy or something). He's mix of Cillian Murphy and Elijah Woods and someone else I can't think of at the moment, that really shouldn't work but just does.. Other things that I loved where all the small fun things, the guys hanging out together being geeky, the absolutely wonderful first meeting between Kick-Ass and Red Mist- that's the best scene ever - the ordinariness of it all, it worked very well.. But the violence is there all the time, and sometimes I really sat there and was amazed at the jumps from ordinary everyday life to the blackest of the black sadness. Yet maybe that should have gotten more room to play, the sadness that was there somewhere, the emptiness of modern society etc.. loneliness of teenagers everywhere.. but it wasn't really that kind of film. This was about Hit-Girl's revenge on her parent's deaths, and trying to be a superhero when you're very much not.
It's Spider-Man done by Quintin Tarantino as someone said on the radio today.. And yes Hit-Girl IS a problematic role, a ruthless killer without a normal childhood, the violent child-woman, a bit like that girl in Léon but not quite as Lolita-like. Why does she have to be so young? Yet somehow I felt like she will grow up as one strong woman...
Also, now I really need to watch Nowhere Boy *g*.
But in a purely aesthetically appreciative way, that boy is SO cute. And I feel slightly dirty for saying so, he's a baby and only 19 (but engaged to and apparently expecting a child with a 23-years-older woman, thank you imdb, so me being 13 years older than him is in no way creepy or something). He's mix of Cillian Murphy and Elijah Woods and someone else I can't think of at the moment, that really shouldn't work but just does.. Other things that I loved where all the small fun things, the guys hanging out together being geeky, the absolutely wonderful first meeting between Kick-Ass and Red Mist- that's the best scene ever - the ordinariness of it all, it worked very well.. But the violence is there all the time, and sometimes I really sat there and was amazed at the jumps from ordinary everyday life to the blackest of the black sadness. Yet maybe that should have gotten more room to play, the sadness that was there somewhere, the emptiness of modern society etc.. loneliness of teenagers everywhere.. but it wasn't really that kind of film. This was about Hit-Girl's revenge on her parent's deaths, and trying to be a superhero when you're very much not.
It's Spider-Man done by Quintin Tarantino as someone said on the radio today.. And yes Hit-Girl IS a problematic role, a ruthless killer without a normal childhood, the violent child-woman, a bit like that girl in Léon but not quite as Lolita-like. Why does she have to be so young? Yet somehow I felt like she will grow up as one strong woman...
Also, now I really need to watch Nowhere Boy *g*.