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summercomfort) wrote2002-10-06 05:59 pm
summercomfort) wrote2002-10-06 05:59 pm
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Just came back from trip downtown w/ roomie and her friend. First went to Art Institute, and then to Sweet Home Alabama. SHAlabama was cute, but not all that great, and a lot of the plot was predictable in a bad way. However, Minority Report last night was *awesome*. It makes a lot more sense now that the crucial scenes aren't cut out of the movie (unlike the bootleg I got in China...) Very thought-provoking, about govt, humanity (fallacies, right to choose), fate/destiny/future, religion... It starts out by saying that the system is perfect, the problem is human, and in the end, the system isn't perfect, because there are minority reports, because at the bottom of it all, the human makes the final choice. And then I thought about what I would choose if I was given the choice: a world with precrime, where you are safe from murder, but you have to place your trust in the few people who govern the system, or a world without precrime, where you aren't safe from murder, and you have to place your trust in humankind, in all the individuals that make their own choices. And despite the awesome technology (that actually seems likely in 50 years...) people are still the same. And religion still exists. There wasn't a bad guy, and that is always the mark of a good drama.
Spirited Away (subbed!) was also really cool, but in a very different way. (Maybe I should retell the events of yesterday. Met at Reynolds Club at 4:00, got to movie theatre at 5:10, watched movie from 5:30-7:40, walked to dinner place by 8:00, got places for 14 people by 9:00, got food by 9:40, at busstop by 10:30, bus arrived at 11:15, got to UChicago docfilms theatre by 11:58, movie started at 12:00, out by 3:30, home by 3:45. Yes. Spent some quality time with the anime club people, who were all awesome and intelligent to talk to.) Anyway, Spirited Away was *very* different from Mononoke Hime, because it was really an adventure story, and doesn't have such an obvious message as Mononoke. But it was a very well-told and entertaining adventure story. I'm kinda sad that she went back in the end though. She should have totally gone with Haku to live with Zeniba... It's like the Esca ending, except with even less closure. But the world that Miyazaki paints is very awesome, with very interesting images, etc. Of course, the nature vs. humans is still there (Haku's river, the Stinky river god, human gluttony...), and the spirits were very human in their attitudes.... a parallel world, and it was interesting watching Chihiro evolve/mature. It's a really simple and straightforward story, but I think Miyazaki has understood something about humanity and society, and it shows through the work in the subtlety of his telling. And instead of coming out of the movie with "Haku is cute", I heard some nice discussions comparing Miyazaki's works, new japanese words learned, questions that the movie didn't answer (what's the purple hairband for?) comment on art style, etc. Very cool. And (I found out that there's the Pierce anime people are all on tenth floor, so I shall visit some time!)
Wow, I watched so many movies this weekend, two of them really good, one good, and one okay. All movied-out! Well, I still have 3 pgs to read for Hum, so I'll go do that now.
Spirited Away (subbed!) was also really cool, but in a very different way. (Maybe I should retell the events of yesterday. Met at Reynolds Club at 4:00, got to movie theatre at 5:10, watched movie from 5:30-7:40, walked to dinner place by 8:00, got places for 14 people by 9:00, got food by 9:40, at busstop by 10:30, bus arrived at 11:15, got to UChicago docfilms theatre by 11:58, movie started at 12:00, out by 3:30, home by 3:45. Yes. Spent some quality time with the anime club people, who were all awesome and intelligent to talk to.) Anyway, Spirited Away was *very* different from Mononoke Hime, because it was really an adventure story, and doesn't have such an obvious message as Mononoke. But it was a very well-told and entertaining adventure story. I'm kinda sad that she went back in the end though. She should have totally gone with Haku to live with Zeniba... It's like the Esca ending, except with even less closure. But the world that Miyazaki paints is very awesome, with very interesting images, etc. Of course, the nature vs. humans is still there (Haku's river, the Stinky river god, human gluttony...), and the spirits were very human in their attitudes.... a parallel world, and it was interesting watching Chihiro evolve/mature. It's a really simple and straightforward story, but I think Miyazaki has understood something about humanity and society, and it shows through the work in the subtlety of his telling. And instead of coming out of the movie with "Haku is cute", I heard some nice discussions comparing Miyazaki's works, new japanese words learned, questions that the movie didn't answer (what's the purple hairband for?) comment on art style, etc. Very cool. And (I found out that there's the Pierce anime people are all on tenth floor, so I shall visit some time!)
Wow, I watched so many movies this weekend, two of them really good, one good, and one okay. All movied-out! Well, I still have 3 pgs to read for Hum, so I'll go do that now.