Movie day...
Greetings ! Been a while since I've put ink to paper, well in a digital sense... uhm, whatever. Let me start over...
Greetings... today is a movie day. Not much going on. The munch for FightClub is too far away, I'll be staying home and watching movies! Picking up some fun packages from the post office maybe?!? and doing some laundry. What does this mean for you dear reader? You get my opinion on all the flicks I've watched recently and watching today!
Movies of the PAST part 1
Let's start with the Professional. Leon. Cleaner. Mathilda. Little girl. Love? Whatever. Here's the deal true-believers - I watched this movie years ago. YEARS ago. It was the same year I met Cat if I'm not mistaken. Cat was a true love of my life. I used to measure the person I was "dating" against the possibility that Cat would ever want to date me - that didn't make much sense. For me to find someone worthy, they would have to be able to be more important to me than Cat was, if Cat ever wanted me, I would have been there for her. I loved that girl to death.
I don't remember if I met her before the Professional, or after. I remember her hair was cut similar, she had a collar that was similar to Mathilda's and the same baby face, only she was a bit older :) You know, legal. I called her Buddha belly because she had a little bit of a pot-belly (like in Pulp Fiction n'est pa?)
This movie made me feel dirty. What was I to do? Yes she's 12. Yes she's obviously fucked in the head. But hey... the director's French. It's not my fault. Really it's not.
But besides all that nonsense, the movie is great. I didn't watch the rerelease a few years ago to DVD called Leon: the Professional. Always meant to. That's when they changed things apparently. I bought the new version that just came out this year I think... The movie is much better now. There are definately some disturbing scenes added, but there's also a few themes that were vague in the theatrical version. Leon didn't fall for a young girl back home, she was just a girl his age. He rebuked Mathilda a little more romantically, but definately embraced her career as a cleaner a LOT more. My jaw dropped at least 3 times at some of the things she did that they cut out. How cool is that?
Movies of the PAST part 2
Sick.
This movie is. I finally found it on DVD! Blockbuster online, can't beat it. over 21,000 titles ready to ship to your door (for a small wait) ... I'm not a company man, really. This movie chronicles the life of a masochistic super freak poetic tragic diseased artist. I wish I had known more about him and the lifestyle while he was alive. I don't even know him, but I miss him. Bob Flanagan.
I saw this movie at the Reel Movies downtown... before it became the Shakespeare Company place. I miss that theater. Cat worked there for a summer, I got free movies there then. I think that was during the time that I watched Sick. Just stumbled in, had no idea what it was about. Only saw it the one time. But it sticks with you... you don't forget this movie easily. Lots of pain, more than I could ever dream of taking, or possibly inflicting. It's hard to watch, but I suggest everyone give it a try. It's a great documentary...
In closing I want to throw a little tidbit out there... As Cat and I hung out in the miniature metropolis known as Cincinnati there was the guy.. (my memory might be distorting things about him) I want to say he had on a leather vest... he asked Cat if she knew what her collar meant. He informed her that it meant that she was owned. I was a little flabbergasted, and aroused by the idea. Cat knew, I think, what it meant. That wasn't why she wore it. At the time I believed that she would freak out if she knew just how freaky Uncle Shane was (I didn't go by that then, it just seemed appropriate to type). I miss her something fierce. Whenever I drive around Cincinnati I look for her. hoping she's on a corner, or waiting for a bus, or talking to a friend. If I saw her again, the world would stop for a moment, while I introduced myself to one of the sweetest girls I've ever met, once more.
Okay that sounded really gay! Here's an MP3 I made from the movie that closes the movie out. It's a little loud, so watch your volume and it's also graphic, don't listen to it at work unless you have privacy, and remember 1984 is over 20 years ago!!!... A great poem called Why written by and spoken by the Super-Masochist himself....