TV and films (well, a film)
Giri/Haji - ep 7
Big secrets revealed throughout - Kenzo finding out Yuto asked Rei to rescue Eiko; Kenzo admitting he’d been the first killer, not Yuto, who knew anyway; Kenzo and Sarah’s silences telling Taki everything about their feelings for each other. And some of those reveals had extreme consequences.
There was a wacky comedy element to the three women and a baby strand, with one of them being a crabby grandmother, but it overshadowed by the understated attack on the sympathetic police officer (repeating some other yakuza’s despatching of Kanzo’s partner). ‘Safe’ feels relative.
I was lulled into looking away into the screen as Ian got nicked, so his mowing down shocked me. Oh, Rodney. He and Taki meant well, and I didn’t see Ian’s capitulation coming, but my heart ached a bit for Rodney as Sarah lashed out and said what he’s been saying when he’s been talking himself down. To the point where I worried as he stood on the platform.
And then there was Annie and friends - complete innocents, becoming collateral damage. Don’t post everything on your socials, kids, the yakuza might find it. And lit-up Taki with her lopsided hair is going to walk in on that. She thinks her heart is broken already. Uh, not so much. (All the grown-ups were far more resigned/relieved about the admission that Kenzo and Rei are done.)
We don’t know what Kanzo’s done - my amoral thought was that Sarah’s car was a terrible place to kill her boss. But it makes Kenzo’s claim that they’re good people who’ve done bad things, not bad people is, as Sarah observed, tenuous.
Some weird bits (oh hai mysterious snake), lots of styliish bits.
I went to see Knives Out last night. It’s entertaining enough, most of all if you have a fondness for murder mysteries that ‘play fair’, though it’s a tad self-indulgent. It’s no The Brothers Bloom (my highwater mark for Rian Johnson films; I didn’t she a Joseph Gordon Levitt cameo). Chris Evans is having a ball, as you’re primed to expect from the trailers, but there was one chunky jumper not even he could save. He looked fine in the rest of his outfits. Also, the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fangirl in me was delighted by K Callen’s presence.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/408908.html.
Big secrets revealed throughout - Kenzo finding out Yuto asked Rei to rescue Eiko; Kenzo admitting he’d been the first killer, not Yuto, who knew anyway; Kenzo and Sarah’s silences telling Taki everything about their feelings for each other. And some of those reveals had extreme consequences.
There was a wacky comedy element to the three women and a baby strand, with one of them being a crabby grandmother, but it overshadowed by the understated attack on the sympathetic police officer (repeating some other yakuza’s despatching of Kanzo’s partner). ‘Safe’ feels relative.
I was lulled into looking away into the screen as Ian got nicked, so his mowing down shocked me. Oh, Rodney. He and Taki meant well, and I didn’t see Ian’s capitulation coming, but my heart ached a bit for Rodney as Sarah lashed out and said what he’s been saying when he’s been talking himself down. To the point where I worried as he stood on the platform.
And then there was Annie and friends - complete innocents, becoming collateral damage. Don’t post everything on your socials, kids, the yakuza might find it. And lit-up Taki with her lopsided hair is going to walk in on that. She thinks her heart is broken already. Uh, not so much. (All the grown-ups were far more resigned/relieved about the admission that Kenzo and Rei are done.)
We don’t know what Kanzo’s done - my amoral thought was that Sarah’s car was a terrible place to kill her boss. But it makes Kenzo’s claim that they’re good people who’ve done bad things, not bad people is, as Sarah observed, tenuous.
Some weird bits (oh hai mysterious snake), lots of styliish bits.
I went to see Knives Out last night. It’s entertaining enough, most of all if you have a fondness for murder mysteries that ‘play fair’, though it’s a tad self-indulgent. It’s no The Brothers Bloom (my highwater mark for Rian Johnson films; I didn’t she a Joseph Gordon Levitt cameo). Chris Evans is having a ball, as you’re primed to expect from the trailers, but there was one chunky jumper not even he could save. He looked fine in the rest of his outfits. Also, the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fangirl in me was delighted by K Callen’s presence.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/408908.html.