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Oct. 26th, 2004 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenIn yesterday's film class we watched another incredibly beautiful film. Last week we ended with La Jetee, and this week was a Japanese film called AfterLife. It's about people being ushered between life and death. It's a week in the life of this facility, where the dead go before they can continue to beyond. They have to pick their favourite memory, once they reflect and identify that one moment they move on, taking only that memory with them. Some people chose easily, some refuse to choose and some "pick" something that never happened. It's the kind of movie that an American producer sees and says "dude, we can so remake that" and then they get it all wrong because they'd pick up the pace and change little details and ruin it. A lot of kids in the class actually left the film early, and those that stayed said crap about how they should have finished the story after Saturday (because it went from Monday for a full week). *grumble* Morons.
This is a movie that I actually got teary at. Me. ME. Get teary. This is unusual, folks. La Jetee was good, but I knew where the story was going (because I've seen 12 Monkeys how many times?) so the impact of the ending was a bit less. With AfterLife I could guess where the story was going but it was beautiful to see how the little bits were resolved. I mean, it's pretty obvious in the conventions of story that the people who are dead have to come to terms with being dead by evaluating their lives. The workers who are helping them also have to have their own development. Otherwise, you'd have no movie. What made this film watchable was exactly how the relationships developed.
There was another thing we watched (well, three others) that had a character say "You Americans" in a certain tone of voice, and the entire room laughed.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amyisyellow is American and she didn't laugh. It was a funny cultural-collective moment.
Odd thing: I didn't wash my tea mug after I last used it, so it was stained. Then I decided to be really lazy and not wash the mug before making a mulled cranberry drink. But the cranberry is bleaching the tea stain off the mug. Weirdness.
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A - Age: 20
B - Band listening to right now: Beastie Boys
C - Crush: Lime Crush inspires awe
D - Dad's name: Jack
E - Easiest person to talk to: Reed
F - Favorite band at the moment: Nick Cave
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: worms
H - Hometown: Brooklin
I - Instruments: I can play the Star Wars theme on anything
J - Junk food: Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips
K - Kids: none
L - Longest car ride ever: GTA to the Cape Breton
N - Number of siblings: 3
O - One wish: learn that Southern Ontario is prime FARMLAND and not REAL ESTATE
P - Phobia[s]: water
Q - Favorite Quote: "Kick at the darkeness 'til it bleeds daylight."
R - Reason to smile: the sun's out!
S - Song you sang last: "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen
T - Time you wake up: always too early
U - Unknown fact about me: I don't like wearing green clothing
V - Vegetable you hate: tomatoes
W - Worst habit(s) you've had: procrastination!
X - X-Rays you've had: chest
Y - Yummy food: Mum's soups
Z - Zodiac sign: Libra
Oh, and if anyone has a Cinema Strange CD with the song "Laughing Bloody Murder" I'd love to get a better copy of that song.
This is a movie that I actually got teary at. Me. ME. Get teary. This is unusual, folks. La Jetee was good, but I knew where the story was going (because I've seen 12 Monkeys how many times?) so the impact of the ending was a bit less. With AfterLife I could guess where the story was going but it was beautiful to see how the little bits were resolved. I mean, it's pretty obvious in the conventions of story that the people who are dead have to come to terms with being dead by evaluating their lives. The workers who are helping them also have to have their own development. Otherwise, you'd have no movie. What made this film watchable was exactly how the relationships developed.
There was another thing we watched (well, three others) that had a character say "You Americans" in a certain tone of voice, and the entire room laughed.
amyisyellow is American and she didn't laugh. It was a funny cultural-collective moment.Odd thing: I didn't wash my tea mug after I last used it, so it was stained. Then I decided to be really lazy and not wash the mug before making a mulled cranberry drink. But the cranberry is bleaching the tea stain off the mug. Weirdness.
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pyrateladyA - Age: 20
B - Band listening to right now: Beastie Boys
C - Crush: Lime Crush inspires awe
D - Dad's name: Jack
E - Easiest person to talk to: Reed
F - Favorite band at the moment: Nick Cave
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: worms
H - Hometown: Brooklin
I - Instruments: I can play the Star Wars theme on anything
J - Junk food: Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips
K - Kids: none
L - Longest car ride ever: GTA to the Cape Breton
N - Number of siblings: 3
O - One wish: learn that Southern Ontario is prime FARMLAND and not REAL ESTATE
P - Phobia[s]: water
Q - Favorite Quote: "Kick at the darkeness 'til it bleeds daylight."
R - Reason to smile: the sun's out!
S - Song you sang last: "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen
T - Time you wake up: always too early
U - Unknown fact about me: I don't like wearing green clothing
V - Vegetable you hate: tomatoes
W - Worst habit(s) you've had: procrastination!
X - X-Rays you've had: chest
Y - Yummy food: Mum's soups
Z - Zodiac sign: Libra
Oh, and if anyone has a Cinema Strange CD with the song "Laughing Bloody Murder" I'd love to get a better copy of that song.
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Date: 2004-10-26 01:14 pm (UTC)I would have been crying by the end of the movie too if I didnt have to pee so bad.
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Date: 2004-10-26 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-28 07:12 pm (UTC)Yesh. I just heard about AfterLife from a friend of mine who went into minute detail about the movie and I fell in love with the concept. Do you reckon they'd have the flick in the library? Cause...I must see this movie.
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Date: 2004-10-30 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-31 02:05 am (UTC)