Yeah. There is so much there. SO MUCH. I mean, I want to see all the different actors in all their different roles. I missed so many! And to just steep in all the wonderful language. And to watch with subtitles since I've apparently got hearing issues and I swear to god this was the quietest movie I've ever been to:)
When you said Cloud Atlas before I didn't know what it was. I hope we get it soon (need a good movie!) oh yes, Ben, (there's another great set of cheekbones) I really liked the Hours!
It was a tv series about a news program, and the cuba crisis was going on, so it was there were spys etc. He played the investigative journalist, I think there is a second series, but I'm not sure if he's in it.
So, how did you feel about Jim Sturgess playing an Asian character? Apparently there has been some criticism around that.
I am also not sure how I feel about it if I look at through a feminist lens (so to speak).
It's nice to think that everyone is the same, but gender does matter as does race and class and ethnicity. Ugh, I don't want politics to sully my enjoyment of the movie.
I think it's tricky, but mitigated by the race-swapping that was happening all over--Halle Berry as a German Jewish woman, Doona Bae as an Irish American woman, etc.
Have you read any of Jo Graham's work? She deals with souls reincarnated through time and I love what she's saying about the essentials of one's character, regardless of biographical detail.
Yes, race and class and gender and family history all matter, but it would be nice to think there is something human that connects us more than those descriptors distinguish us.
And speaking of Ben Whislaw, I hadn't remembered, but Skyfall is at least the second time he's worked with Daniel Craig--I noticed him in a scene I watched last night from Layer Cake.
I just wonder if it's easy for us with privilege to say things like there is a fundamental humanity that connects us (I mean, I totally agree with this statement, but I also wonder about our ability to say it).
I would like to think that by having women play men, and men play women, and people play different races and cultures that the directors are at the very least drawing attention to these issues. I don't have the language to talk about this stuff any more, but I feel like they are re-constructing issues around identity and that can only be a good thing. But maybe I'm just rationalizing.
Is Layer Cake good? Now that I've seen him in Cloud Atlas I want to see Skyfall which I had been saying I hadn't wanted to see because Bond is just all kinds of wrong if he's not Roger Moore for me:D
YES!!!! Just, there are people who have issues with a white man playing a Korean character, but I think there are probably other issues embedded in the movie too. Still, I want to own this movie.
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I hope we get it soon (need a good movie!)
oh yes, Ben, (there's another great set of cheekbones) I really liked the Hours!
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I don't know The Hour, but I am interested in seeing more things he's done.
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He played the investigative journalist, I think there is a second series, but I'm not sure if he's in it.
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Whishaw is a gorgeous man indeed.
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Now I want to read the book!
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I am also not sure how I feel about it if I look at through a feminist lens (so to speak).
It's nice to think that everyone is the same, but gender does matter as does race and class and ethnicity. Ugh, I don't want politics to sully my enjoyment of the movie.
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Have you read any of Jo Graham's work? She deals with souls reincarnated through time and I love what she's saying about the essentials of one's character, regardless of biographical detail.
Yes, race and class and gender and family history all matter, but it would be nice to think there is something human that connects us more than those descriptors distinguish us.
And speaking of Ben Whislaw, I hadn't remembered, but Skyfall is at least the second time he's worked with Daniel Craig--I noticed him in a scene I watched last night from Layer Cake.
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I just wonder if it's easy for us with privilege to say things like there is a fundamental humanity that connects us (I mean, I totally agree with this statement, but I also wonder about our ability to say it).
I would like to think that by having women play men, and men play women, and people play different races and cultures that the directors are at the very least drawing attention to these issues. I don't have the language to talk about this stuff any more, but I feel like they are re-constructing issues around identity and that can only be a good thing. But maybe I'm just rationalizing.
Is Layer Cake good? Now that I've seen him in Cloud Atlas I want to see Skyfall which I had been saying I hadn't wanted to see because Bond is just all kinds of wrong if he's not Roger Moore for me:D
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