The Fall (2006)
This visual experience is directed by Tarsem Singh, who is responsible for the upcoming deliciousness that will be Mirror, Mirror - my favourite thing, a remake of Snow White, with Julia Roberts as the evil queen! Now, I had heard feedback that was pretty much 100% positive being all like AWMAGAWD! STUNNING! BEAUTIFUL! ETC. ETC. and I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it - it gave me a Big Fish kind of vibe. Yeah, It was very rich and colourful featuring the 5 hero characters which are all very distinct which made for a very stimulating visual experience.
Side note: I was slightly absent during some moments but this is because I am somehow convinced of gaining 15kgs so I busied myself with food making and is nothing against the movie.
The lead girl, Cantinca Untaru, was really sweet but often (and I don't know if is just me) I could not understand what she was saying (it also could've had to do with my counterfeit copy!) If anything I enjoyed imagination aspect. I enjoyed how the little girl took people from her everyday life and used them as building blocks for imagining the characters Roy was telling about. It's very Wizard of Oz (and you and you and you and you were there)
Frankie & Alice (2010)
Halle Berry plays this woman who has multiple personality which we now call Dissociative identity disorder. So, she's this stripper called Alice and then BAM! She's this racist southerner called Alice and then also she's this little girl who is dubbed "Genius". It was an enjoyable movie but had this unusual production value to it. Felt like one of those middle of the road movies you'd see after 10pm but Halle gal's acting was pretty good but I just kept thinking this has been done! And I just have to clarify, I'm fine with things that have been done but you gotta put a fresh spin on it. There was no fresh spin. It was a lazy, limp lettuce leaf. Still, I enjoyed it on an emotional level but if I can't be dishing out the 5 stars to everyone just for trying. Also, I fell asleep at the end....
A fun and festive movie I happened across. This was one of many christmas movies I watched in an attempt to fake my way through the silly season. Now, you know that childhood fave The Santa ClausE? Tim Allen becomes Santa? Yeh, this is basically the same movie EXCEPT it is made fifty times more hilarious because Whoopi Goldberg is the lead! As soon as I discovered this movie existed, I knew I had to see it or risk being a laughing stock. Let me tell you, I love me a bit o' Whoopi and this film did not disappoint! It had everything I would expect from her - Mania, Freak-Outs, Big daggy shirts, infectiously large toothfilled smiles! Yes! Everything!
I shall close today by presenting my queer film triple play:
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
It's one of those queer films everyone talks about so I supposed I should watch it. It was very 80s and we all know how I feel about 80s films so that was an obvious draw back. All in all it was pleasant but narratively unusual and I kept feeling like I was missing something (which could have been attributed to my lack of sleep more than anything else).
There's something about those crazy Brits that when they make a piece of entertaining media, no matter how cliche the content can be, it's still very much that, entertaining! I gasped, raised my eyebrows, sat on the edge of my seat and had my heart melt in a 90 minute session! I honestly just think it's something about their filming style or something - not afraid to be bleak? When Americans do bleak it's all contrived and nonsense! This movie also started hacking into this recent desire i've grown to go back in time and live it up club style in the 90s. I always have this secret hope that everyone that plays gays is, in fact, a real life gay so that my fantasy can seem somehow attainable but sadly the boxing lead played by Steve Bell is a raging straight man boxer in real life! Y U B So convincing!?
While the Brits were titillating the tips with 'Like It Is', the aussies were arousing with this sexy release which I have since been referring to as Hard On for obvious reasons. I think my favourite genre of film is an Australian family drama where the family is of a somewhat ethnic group. What makes this even better is the gay lead played by an extraordinarily scrumptious Alex Dimitriades. If I wasn't already so tantalised by the idea of wanting to go back to the 90s and party hard this just made me so depressed I didn't spend my youth going to clubs in my overalls, taking ecstasy, slipping off the overalls and gratuitously fucking a man in a back room while this techno-y 90s music blared as our two bodies generated a grotesque fuck machine in perfect sync to the beat. Enough about my repressed desires, I am just head over heels for this film! Family dramas, drugs, bleak cities, a trans character, corrupt police, marginalised ethnicities, sexual retardation/oppression, all within an Australian context! Live it, love it!
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