I started the year off with two films about impending doom.
I woke up early to watch Melancholia, a film about a depressed woman who gets married a few weeks (months?) before another planet is possibly going to collide with Earth. Of course the depressive is the only confidently realistic one in the bunch. Happy people are happy because of the illusions they foster. It's a very stressful ride as we near the deadline and hope the planet will just pass by. It's reminiscent of Last Night, a Don McKellar film about how a variety of people deal with the end of the world - mainly they search for connections, that one last kiss. In this film, they scramble for hope. But no matter how you slice it, death is imminent. Life is short, enjoy it while it lasts!
I love Kirsten Dunst as she wavers between cute as a button and completely dead inside. Her face and eyes change dramatically from scene to scene. And I've loved Kiefer Sutherland since Bay Boy. But most of the rest were irritating. It's hard to tell if the people were all acting strangely because death is potentially at their doorstep, or if they were all just strange. It wasn't a good strange, an interesting strange with a glimmer of brilliance. It was just weird and mean. But Dunst was captivating.
Every year on New Years Day I take my kids to a movie. It's a tradition that's shifted over the years from the older ones to the youngest. So today we treated ourselves to a cab to check out Happy Feet 2. It's got some of the characters of the first one, but the mood is substantially darker. At one point when it appeared that all was lost and hundreds of penguins were going to perish, my little one said, "I hate this movie!" Yikes.
But of course all creatures large and small pitched in to save the day. Whew!
There are philosophical krill that make a few jokes about free will that don't work on any level except that they rhyme with krill. And they argue about their purpose in life which also doesn't work because, well, they're krill. But the animation was amazing. The snow sparkled like diamonds, and the underwater scenes were a delight. The singing and soundtrack was a lot of fun too. I had to restrain myself from singing along to this...
And this...
And this....
And, maybe (?) this.
It's got that whole don't try to rise above your station thing going on. Accept yourself and your limitations, like penguins can't fly and krill are at the bottom of the food chain, but don't be afraid of challenges along the way. We can do anything if we all work together.
But the kiddies need a warning before hand that it's all going to be alright.
Don't we all.
I woke up early to watch Melancholia, a film about a depressed woman who gets married a few weeks (months?) before another planet is possibly going to collide with Earth. Of course the depressive is the only confidently realistic one in the bunch. Happy people are happy because of the illusions they foster. It's a very stressful ride as we near the deadline and hope the planet will just pass by. It's reminiscent of Last Night, a Don McKellar film about how a variety of people deal with the end of the world - mainly they search for connections, that one last kiss. In this film, they scramble for hope. But no matter how you slice it, death is imminent. Life is short, enjoy it while it lasts!
I love Kirsten Dunst as she wavers between cute as a button and completely dead inside. Her face and eyes change dramatically from scene to scene. And I've loved Kiefer Sutherland since Bay Boy. But most of the rest were irritating. It's hard to tell if the people were all acting strangely because death is potentially at their doorstep, or if they were all just strange. It wasn't a good strange, an interesting strange with a glimmer of brilliance. It was just weird and mean. But Dunst was captivating.
Every year on New Years Day I take my kids to a movie. It's a tradition that's shifted over the years from the older ones to the youngest. So today we treated ourselves to a cab to check out Happy Feet 2. It's got some of the characters of the first one, but the mood is substantially darker. At one point when it appeared that all was lost and hundreds of penguins were going to perish, my little one said, "I hate this movie!" Yikes.
But of course all creatures large and small pitched in to save the day. Whew!
There are philosophical krill that make a few jokes about free will that don't work on any level except that they rhyme with krill. And they argue about their purpose in life which also doesn't work because, well, they're krill. But the animation was amazing. The snow sparkled like diamonds, and the underwater scenes were a delight. The singing and soundtrack was a lot of fun too. I had to restrain myself from singing along to this...
And this...
And this....
And, maybe (?) this.
It's got that whole don't try to rise above your station thing going on. Accept yourself and your limitations, like penguins can't fly and krill are at the bottom of the food chain, but don't be afraid of challenges along the way. We can do anything if we all work together.
But the kiddies need a warning before hand that it's all going to be alright.
Don't we all.
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