Bad screens, good screens
I'm avoiding television these days as I'm extremely pissed off at the news using videos showing the dead bodies in Sousse. It is not information but mere sensationalism. Sure the corpses are under white sheets, but still. What's the point of showing this or pools of blood? It is enough that some morons over there thought it was great to take pictures or videos of the slaughter place, and post them on the Internet, but journalists should know better. Remember the film Night Call, starring Jake Gyllenhall? We are there.
And don't get me started on some media calling the wife of the guy who beheaded his boss and attacked the factory in Isère. And the hypocrisy of showing a fuzzy picture of the killer's cell phone which showed his posing next to the severed head.
Same with the fucking BMF tv who's surfing on the so-called panic in Greece but unfortunately can't find truly freaked-out crowds withdrawing money.
So yesterday evening I went to the cinema and saw the beautiful Turkish film, Mustang.
The film has been called a Turkish Virgin Suicides, and there are indeed some similarities, even though the setting (a village in Turkey, near the Black Sea) explores various issues/taboos that are typical of islamic countries (like sodomy being practiced to save virginity), and there is no male perspective here, but a story mostly showed from the point of view of the youngest girl who is the audience's ear and eyes, and who shares her thoughts through a voice-over - quite heavy in places.
Besides the bond between the five sisters, who sometimes look as if they were only one body showed in a tingle of limbs and long hair (and those scenes are terrific), at the core of the story there's the blatant hypocrisy of a society obsessed by appearances and fearlful of female sexuality.
But like wild horses, the wind blowing through their beautiful manes, girls cannot and will never be tamed.
And don't get me started on some media calling the wife of the guy who beheaded his boss and attacked the factory in Isère. And the hypocrisy of showing a fuzzy picture of the killer's cell phone which showed his posing next to the severed head.
Same with the fucking BMF tv who's surfing on the so-called panic in Greece but unfortunately can't find truly freaked-out crowds withdrawing money.
So yesterday evening I went to the cinema and saw the beautiful Turkish film, Mustang.
Click to viewThe film has been called a Turkish Virgin Suicides, and there are indeed some similarities, even though the setting (a village in Turkey, near the Black Sea) explores various issues/taboos that are typical of islamic countries (like sodomy being practiced to save virginity), and there is no male perspective here, but a story mostly showed from the point of view of the youngest girl who is the audience's ear and eyes, and who shares her thoughts through a voice-over - quite heavy in places.
Besides the bond between the five sisters, who sometimes look as if they were only one body showed in a tingle of limbs and long hair (and those scenes are terrific), at the core of the story there's the blatant hypocrisy of a society obsessed by appearances and fearlful of female sexuality.
But like wild horses, the wind blowing through their beautiful manes, girls cannot and will never be tamed.