These past few weeks of depressing cold weather had us holed up in our rabbit hutch. My partner and I watched a lot of movies and that got us admitting to ourselves, "we can try appreciating some indie films but, they surely do tax our brains!" ANG LALIM ng ibang indie films ha.
Halimbawa, I borrowed the ffg.:
Tideland - Terry Gilliam --- loved it! partner was snoozing halfway through
Primer - Shane Carruth --- we managed to stay up until the end, this was
challenging! nagka-gulo-buhol ang line of thought namin sa huling bahagi ng movie na ito. Discussion forums have full-on OTAKU-ness. Tama na yung naiintindihan ko ng konti yung story.
Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón- left us wanting more out of the story, BITIN! we tried plumbing its depth, and it sent us looking for discussion forums on the film, well, most of the forums say that the storyline was quite shallow and that praises rightly belong to the director's filming techniques.
Na-aalala ko tuloy yung mga nakaraang films na napanood ko na pag-iisipin ka o kaya gigisingin ka, Pi, Memento, The Machinist, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, etc. Ngayon ko lang sinisimulang panoorin ang mga classic Pinoy Greats, sayang nga at konti lang ang available on DVD.
On our next trip to the rentals, we made sure we had a fare of friendly Hollywood films like, Bewitched, The Sentinel and the one had us laughing in the first few minutes, Jackass. Grabe, this one scene sent me gagging, the guy peed on a snowcone and started eating it afterwards, he was also puking... sabay kami, tapos there was also a scene where they gave papercuts between their toes, fingers and lips!
Watching Jackass was a real waste of time but I was entertained, and not a single brain cell challenged! I could not believe that there's even a second one! Thang-ina, and to think na pinatulan ko yung una!
One remaining DVD we have not yet seen... Nobody Knows. This is a Japanese film which won Best Actor and was nominated for the Palme D' Or at Cannes '04. Depressing and painful daw sabi ng kaibigan namin na true-blue film geek.
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