Four movies in four days
I listened to this music a lot around the turn of the year. But somehow I didn't want to post it then. Especially the song The Sound of My Goodbye really gets to me everytime I listen to it. I can be doing something on my computer but the part that starts at 00:50 makes me stop whatever I was doing and just listen to the music. Also, in my mind the lyrics go "the sound of goodbye is louder than any heartbeat" and not "drum beat". I think that it works better than way. :p
I watched four movies last week. I noticed on Thursday that I had to use some movie tickets that I got last Christmas before (last) Sunday. So I watched two movies on one day and another two on another day. I had thought that there was still more time to use the tickets. Anyway, I watched Avatar in 3D, Miesten vuoro, Kick-Ass and Katseeseen kätketty (it's the Finnish name for that Argetinian movie that won the best foreign movie Oscar).
I enjoyed Avatar but I hated the 3D glasses. They pressed on my nose and kept sliding down my nose so I had to hold them up with my hand through half of the movie. Well, it was my first time seeing a new movie in 3D so next time I'll know to bring with me something to cushion the glasses and keep them from sliding down my nose. Maybe korvakitti would work? I use it while swimming to keep water from getting into my ears and it's moldable. Obviously I wouldn't use the same patch on my nose that I used on my ears. :p Avatar was visually stunning, one of those movies that you need to see in the theaters, but the story felt like it was a bit too spelled out for the audience.
Miesten vuoro (link's in Finnish) is a Finnish documentary and it's worth seeing. In Finland there's no age limit for this movie (not that there were any kids in the audience), but I'd imagine that abroad the age limit would be 18 or something because OMG naked people sitting in a sauna and talking about their lives. Anyway, I don't know how to translate "elämän makuinen" but the movie felt very real. The people were so real. Parts of the movie made me laugh and other parts made me cry. The part with the bear was awesome.
Kick-Ass was your regular teenager movie. It was fun and entertaining but when I think about it now afterwards, it's kinda disturbing that watching an 11 year old murder a lot of people in cold blood is what we consider as entertainment. Have we gotten so used to seeing violence in the media?
Katseeseen kätketty was the most thought provoking movie of these four. I can recommend it. It was very interesting. And unlike Avatar, it treated the viewers like adults and not like kids who need everything spelled out for them. It's also interesting to learn more about what's been happening in different countries since the second world war. I watched a documentary a while back that had something about the history of Argentina and the dictatorship that was there. Even in Europe there were countries around that time that didn't have democracy and people didn't have much freedom. It's hard to think about. It feels like it was ages ago, but my parents lived during those times.I've also been thinking about how the fates of Estonia and Finland ended up so different after the war, even though it was so close that Finland as well didn't become a part of The Soviet Union. I think about that everytime I've been to Estonia: "This could be Finland's fate, if things had gone differently". Isn't kinda amazing that Finland is the only country discussed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that didn't end up like Nazi Germany and Soviet Union agreed in that pact where they divided the countries between them at the start of WW II. I might've been born into 'Finland Socialistic Soviet Republic'. Instead I was born into Kekkoslovakia. xp (That's a joke. My foreign readers might not get the reference.)
I watched four movies last week. I noticed on Thursday that I had to use some movie tickets that I got last Christmas before (last) Sunday. So I watched two movies on one day and another two on another day. I had thought that there was still more time to use the tickets. Anyway, I watched Avatar in 3D, Miesten vuoro, Kick-Ass and Katseeseen kätketty (it's the Finnish name for that Argetinian movie that won the best foreign movie Oscar).
I enjoyed Avatar but I hated the 3D glasses. They pressed on my nose and kept sliding down my nose so I had to hold them up with my hand through half of the movie. Well, it was my first time seeing a new movie in 3D so next time I'll know to bring with me something to cushion the glasses and keep them from sliding down my nose. Maybe korvakitti would work? I use it while swimming to keep water from getting into my ears and it's moldable. Obviously I wouldn't use the same patch on my nose that I used on my ears. :p Avatar was visually stunning, one of those movies that you need to see in the theaters, but the story felt like it was a bit too spelled out for the audience.
Miesten vuoro (link's in Finnish) is a Finnish documentary and it's worth seeing. In Finland there's no age limit for this movie (not that there were any kids in the audience), but I'd imagine that abroad the age limit would be 18 or something because OMG naked people sitting in a sauna and talking about their lives. Anyway, I don't know how to translate "elämän makuinen" but the movie felt very real. The people were so real. Parts of the movie made me laugh and other parts made me cry. The part with the bear was awesome.
Kick-Ass was your regular teenager movie. It was fun and entertaining but when I think about it now afterwards, it's kinda disturbing that watching an 11 year old murder a lot of people in cold blood is what we consider as entertainment. Have we gotten so used to seeing violence in the media?
Katseeseen kätketty was the most thought provoking movie of these four. I can recommend it. It was very interesting. And unlike Avatar, it treated the viewers like adults and not like kids who need everything spelled out for them. It's also interesting to learn more about what's been happening in different countries since the second world war. I watched a documentary a while back that had something about the history of Argentina and the dictatorship that was there. Even in Europe there were countries around that time that didn't have democracy and people didn't have much freedom. It's hard to think about. It feels like it was ages ago, but my parents lived during those times.I've also been thinking about how the fates of Estonia and Finland ended up so different after the war, even though it was so close that Finland as well didn't become a part of The Soviet Union. I think about that everytime I've been to Estonia: "This could be Finland's fate, if things had gone differently". Isn't kinda amazing that Finland is the only country discussed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that didn't end up like Nazi Germany and Soviet Union agreed in that pact where they divided the countries between them at the start of WW II. I might've been born into 'Finland Socialistic Soviet Republic'. Instead I was born into Kekkoslovakia. xp (That's a joke. My foreign readers might not get the reference.)
