this is what happens when you invite your two best friends over to "study"
I watched the first episode of Elfen Lied, an anime. That's all I knew about it, actually, besides the fact that it is drawn and the drawings talk in Japanese and we read the subtitles in english to understand them, before I watched it. That and it was bloody. The guys had doubted I'd be able to watch more than 10 minutes of it so I went and proved them wrong. It was sort of like this:
It starts pretty heavy and it keeps like that for the first ten minutes. Like, the girl without any clothes on, a steel helmet on her head, and that can barely walk, legit killed some 30 guys and it was pretty real-ish. There was an abuse of the color red, for sure, and the scenes were so surreal! She has some kind of magic power (invisible hands or something, I don't know yet for sure) that kills everybody and rips them apart. I mean, I she killed about five of those 30 guys with a pen. She used it to drill through their skulls and it came out the other way. It was so exaggerated that I really laughed around the 7-minute mark. At least, they laughed with me and agreed it was a bit over the top, but I think that's part of the charm.
Then she escapes the place she's been kept locked up (hence the helmet) and arrives on a beach where there is these cousins that take her in. We realise she has absolutely no idea how to walk or how to talk or even how to go to the bathroom! It's quite clear she's not human, or that she's quite underdeveloped, which leads to the question of how long she was captured. Anyways, it gets pretty confusing from them on, with the background of the boy, whose name I don't remember. He has a sister who died mysteriously when they still lived in the town he's come back to for college and he gets all sad and show the girl a memoir he has of her. The girl breaks it and he sends her out and then they go looking for her. At the same time, the guys from where she's escaped are hunting her. The episode ends when they arrive on the beach and find her.
Overall, it is intriguing, because it is so confusing. You want to know how she can kill those guys, what the fuck has happened to her, what she is, more about the boy's little sister and you want to know why they're hunting her and why there was this one guy, apparently the chief, that has been spared. And that's what makes a story, the wanting to know, which leads to people watching. That's why I want to watch the anime further, and I probably will, still this weekend.
Besides watching the anime, in class we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the movie version of the musical, and I have one word to describe it: bizarre. It's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein twisted into a sung orgy, basically. It's weird, and awesome.
The idea of creating a Doctor Frankenstein and making him a transvestite and then making him sing a song about Transsexual Transylvania was a brilliant idea and it was just hilarius, all throughout the movie, to watch the outrageous situations you see because of Doctor Frank N Furter's lifestyle (sex and sex and sex with a little bit of drugs in the middle) and the songs were quite catchy, although I didn't really enjoy the voices of most of the cast. Anyways, there is no way for me to write it with its bizarre charm without ruining the atmosphere of the movie, so I'll just say this: watch it. It's really worthy of its symbol in the 90's.
It starts pretty heavy and it keeps like that for the first ten minutes. Like, the girl without any clothes on, a steel helmet on her head, and that can barely walk, legit killed some 30 guys and it was pretty real-ish. There was an abuse of the color red, for sure, and the scenes were so surreal! She has some kind of magic power (invisible hands or something, I don't know yet for sure) that kills everybody and rips them apart. I mean, I she killed about five of those 30 guys with a pen. She used it to drill through their skulls and it came out the other way. It was so exaggerated that I really laughed around the 7-minute mark. At least, they laughed with me and agreed it was a bit over the top, but I think that's part of the charm.
Then she escapes the place she's been kept locked up (hence the helmet) and arrives on a beach where there is these cousins that take her in. We realise she has absolutely no idea how to walk or how to talk or even how to go to the bathroom! It's quite clear she's not human, or that she's quite underdeveloped, which leads to the question of how long she was captured. Anyways, it gets pretty confusing from them on, with the background of the boy, whose name I don't remember. He has a sister who died mysteriously when they still lived in the town he's come back to for college and he gets all sad and show the girl a memoir he has of her. The girl breaks it and he sends her out and then they go looking for her. At the same time, the guys from where she's escaped are hunting her. The episode ends when they arrive on the beach and find her.
Overall, it is intriguing, because it is so confusing. You want to know how she can kill those guys, what the fuck has happened to her, what she is, more about the boy's little sister and you want to know why they're hunting her and why there was this one guy, apparently the chief, that has been spared. And that's what makes a story, the wanting to know, which leads to people watching. That's why I want to watch the anime further, and I probably will, still this weekend.
Besides watching the anime, in class we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the movie version of the musical, and I have one word to describe it: bizarre. It's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein twisted into a sung orgy, basically. It's weird, and awesome.
The idea of creating a Doctor Frankenstein and making him a transvestite and then making him sing a song about Transsexual Transylvania was a brilliant idea and it was just hilarius, all throughout the movie, to watch the outrageous situations you see because of Doctor Frank N Furter's lifestyle (sex and sex and sex with a little bit of drugs in the middle) and the songs were quite catchy, although I didn't really enjoy the voices of most of the cast. Anyways, there is no way for me to write it with its bizarre charm without ruining the atmosphere of the movie, so I'll just say this: watch it. It's really worthy of its symbol in the 90's.