Adam's Apples
Once in a while, I make myself watch movies that are so far out of my Taste Zone that few ever manage to surprise me. To give you an example, I like only a handful of the Oscar nominees or winners in the last decades, that's what my taste is like. I am not hiding the fact that my taste is rather Hollywood-y average. And at least I'm not complaining about the lack of story in action movies, like other 'critics' online, but see it for the pasttime fun it is.
Still, even a blind chicken finds a corn sometimes, as the saying goes.
So this weekend I had the great pleasure to watch Adam's Apples, a Danish movie that has gotten much praise on several of the smaller film festivals. It's a great parable on life, the universe and everything; what we choose to believe and what we don't. It's not the drama you expect it to be - there's so much WTF in this movie that you can't help but love it, really. All the characters are broken, but so much more real for it, the story is so absurd that you can't help but think it to be real.
And (if you feel like it) you can interpret the heck out of it, coming to all kinds of different messages depending on where you stand and how you feel about the universe at the moment, which is a perfect mirror of the movie's message, that we are the ones who choose how to see our world. This would be the perfect movie for a religion class, I think.
Still, even a blind chicken finds a corn sometimes, as the saying goes.
So this weekend I had the great pleasure to watch Adam's Apples, a Danish movie that has gotten much praise on several of the smaller film festivals. It's a great parable on life, the universe and everything; what we choose to believe and what we don't. It's not the drama you expect it to be - there's so much WTF in this movie that you can't help but love it, really. All the characters are broken, but so much more real for it, the story is so absurd that you can't help but think it to be real.
And (if you feel like it) you can interpret the heck out of it, coming to all kinds of different messages depending on where you stand and how you feel about the universe at the moment, which is a perfect mirror of the movie's message, that we are the ones who choose how to see our world. This would be the perfect movie for a religion class, I think.