Films that weren't what I thought they'd be
So apparently it's the summer solstice. Not that you can tell as it's the rainiest it's been in over a week.
On a similar note I saw The Craft the other week. Not seen it before... it's interesting.
Initially I thought it seemed like the kind of film I could agree with. Strong, alternative, ostacised girls having a bit of power and (so I hoped) learn from their mistakes. Apparently not.
The defiant, slightly-damaged-but-strong girl becomes a homocidal, power-crazed bitch. The quiet, self-conscious girl becomes a narcisscist as soon as her scars are healed, suggesting she actually wasn't very nice. The girl who was getting racial abuse was perhaps more justified by her reaction and even seemed to feel sorry for her former tormentor when the tables were turned, until suddenly she's just another part of bitch-girl's nasty coven.
Also I've been to Wicca shops, they don't have that many lighted candles all over the place. The reason is that they're a massive fire risk.
I was a little confused that they seemed to be worshipping and invoking Mannall. Which is odd because none of them seemed to need tech advice. Although davegotsu says you can sacrifice him to make buses come.
In contrast I saw another film which I thought would be idle rom-com fluff (and for the most part was) but afterwards I realised that it was actually quite different in a very significant way. Little Black Book is the only rom-com I've seen where the lead female starts out in a relationship but by the end of the film she is single and succeeding in her chosen career.
Seriously. I cannot think of a single other. And that was one of the main things that got to me about the end of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, that she couldn't have both her really good job and the bloke. Why the fuck not? People have distance relationships in different cities all the time. They'd only known each other 10 days, she'd wanted to be serious journalist forever. It made no sense.
Anyway the main character starts out nice and trusting but becomes paranoid and deceptive, which I don't necessary agree with. The second female character seemed cynical at first, then she turned out to be manipulative and somewhat crazy, but she was played by Holly Hunter so I wasn't too surprised.
It was pretty funny and generally I enjoyed it, I'm just being analytical after the fact. The main male character was mostly out of shot, on the periphary until it was his time to come in, although he was the reason most of the women were in the film. In way a bit like the prince in Disney films, a massively necessary part of the story but not the focus, just there to do his part. The film doesn't break the rule however because there are times when female characters are talking together aboout their jobs or other women. And at the end there's not a male character in sight and it's all success and good things happening and as I say in a film like this that was unexpected.
On a similar note I saw The Craft the other week. Not seen it before... it's interesting.
Initially I thought it seemed like the kind of film I could agree with. Strong, alternative, ostacised girls having a bit of power and (so I hoped) learn from their mistakes. Apparently not.
The defiant, slightly-damaged-but-strong girl becomes a homocidal, power-crazed bitch. The quiet, self-conscious girl becomes a narcisscist as soon as her scars are healed, suggesting she actually wasn't very nice. The girl who was getting racial abuse was perhaps more justified by her reaction and even seemed to feel sorry for her former tormentor when the tables were turned, until suddenly she's just another part of bitch-girl's nasty coven.
Also I've been to Wicca shops, they don't have that many lighted candles all over the place. The reason is that they're a massive fire risk.
I was a little confused that they seemed to be worshipping and invoking Mannall. Which is odd because none of them seemed to need tech advice. Although davegotsu says you can sacrifice him to make buses come.
In contrast I saw another film which I thought would be idle rom-com fluff (and for the most part was) but afterwards I realised that it was actually quite different in a very significant way. Little Black Book is the only rom-com I've seen where the lead female starts out in a relationship but by the end of the film she is single and succeeding in her chosen career.
Seriously. I cannot think of a single other. And that was one of the main things that got to me about the end of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, that she couldn't have both her really good job and the bloke. Why the fuck not? People have distance relationships in different cities all the time. They'd only known each other 10 days, she'd wanted to be serious journalist forever. It made no sense.
Anyway the main character starts out nice and trusting but becomes paranoid and deceptive, which I don't necessary agree with. The second female character seemed cynical at first, then she turned out to be manipulative and somewhat crazy, but she was played by Holly Hunter so I wasn't too surprised.
It was pretty funny and generally I enjoyed it, I'm just being analytical after the fact. The main male character was mostly out of shot, on the periphary until it was his time to come in, although he was the reason most of the women were in the film. In way a bit like the prince in Disney films, a massively necessary part of the story but not the focus, just there to do his part. The film doesn't break the rule however because there are times when female characters are talking together aboout their jobs or other women. And at the end there's not a male character in sight and it's all success and good things happening and as I say in a film like this that was unexpected.