So I went to see The Assassin

[zotz]

It was pretty much exactly what I'd been told to expect - a slow film without that much plot but absolutely beautiful. Some of the indoor scenes reminded me of Peter Greenaway. Apparently the actor playing the assassin herself was down for one of the lead parts in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but her manager insisted that doing a Coke advert

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[d_floorlandmine]

A council truck has just driven up with a car on the back, lifted it into a parking space, and left.

"Sorry mate, impounded the wrong car. 'ere you go!"

[zotz]

I wish I could believe it was that simple. They'd just get the owner to pick it up at the yard.

[d_floorlandmine]

Fair point.

[zotz]

Having said which, I did creep out to the shop and everything - grammar and semantics, the arrow of time, social expectations - seemed to be just as I remember it being. There's something I'm missing, obviously.

[grendelis]

A friends car which had been stolen in Cambridge and was recovered... was returned in such a way after repairs*.

Grammar and suchlike are always a moveable feast in my world.

*indeed they replaced a previously broken wing mirror, but not the passenger seat floor pan panel which did go missing when the miscreants removed the CD auto-changer containing hard to replace Ozzy CDs...

[zotz]

So you think this might not be a major rearrangement of time and causality after all?

Well, I certainly hope you're right.

[grendelis]

I think you'll be fine ;)

as they say... stranger things have happened...