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redfiona99International Recommend-A-Movie Day. This means everyone should go to their LJ right now and tell their friends to watch a really good movie which most of them probably have not seen. And then tell more people to do it. Hopefully, we'll all have lots and lots of recommendations by the end of the day.
Sounds like a plan. So reviewing my list of favourite films, and thinking about what people on my friends list are likely to have seen, I must recommend Palookaville
Why? It's the strangest thing, a sad, melancholy piece about three men who, struggling to make ends meet, turn to robbery. And yet it's also uplifting.
It's sad, funny, whimsical and beautifully shot. And it looks real, it feels real. You can smell the damp and the baby food. The score is also nice, it fits in well with the general tone.
The three main characters also follow this real trend. At various points their hopeless, helpless and useless. And lovable, kind, sweet and decent. You want things to go right for them. And yet fate keeps conspiring against them.
Of course this description is useless, because I'm trying not to give away what happens, not because it's a thriller or there's a twist, but because the storyline progresses organically out of the things that the three of them do and I don't want to spoil it with my heavy-handed descriptions.
And now it's over to you.
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I missed most of TNA this week due to having a memory like a sieve. What I did see was
- Frankie Kazarian looking manically happy at winning the X-title.
- Loved the rest of Team NWA coming out to help Sabin. It's little things like that that I like.
- Dear NWA and the world in general, including the English media, the names United Kingdom and Great Britain are interchangable. The name England is not interchangable with either of the above, unless you want to deal with the Scots, the Norther Irish and the Welsh.
-Sting as the enforcer. I have no idea what his function was supposed to be but he looked like he was having fun. Yay Sting! The look of joy on his face when Raven decided to punch him was also deeply amusing.
- the simultaneous over the top suicide dives were cool.
- Raven, you are the master of all high sneakiness. Throwing in the towel when AJ didn't know whether to trust Russo was a masterstroke. I bow before you. (or the writers or whoever. Someone deserves cookies)
And that's it.
Sounds like a plan. So reviewing my list of favourite films, and thinking about what people on my friends list are likely to have seen, I must recommend Palookaville
Why? It's the strangest thing, a sad, melancholy piece about three men who, struggling to make ends meet, turn to robbery. And yet it's also uplifting.
It's sad, funny, whimsical and beautifully shot. And it looks real, it feels real. You can smell the damp and the baby food. The score is also nice, it fits in well with the general tone.
The three main characters also follow this real trend. At various points their hopeless, helpless and useless. And lovable, kind, sweet and decent. You want things to go right for them. And yet fate keeps conspiring against them.
Of course this description is useless, because I'm trying not to give away what happens, not because it's a thriller or there's a twist, but because the storyline progresses organically out of the things that the three of them do and I don't want to spoil it with my heavy-handed descriptions.
And now it's over to you.
~~~~
I missed most of TNA this week due to having a memory like a sieve. What I did see was
- Frankie Kazarian looking manically happy at winning the X-title.
- Loved the rest of Team NWA coming out to help Sabin. It's little things like that that I like.
- Dear NWA and the world in general, including the English media, the names United Kingdom and Great Britain are interchangable. The name England is not interchangable with either of the above, unless you want to deal with the Scots, the Norther Irish and the Welsh.
-Sting as the enforcer. I have no idea what his function was supposed to be but he looked like he was having fun. Yay Sting! The look of joy on his face when Raven decided to punch him was also deeply amusing.
- the simultaneous over the top suicide dives were cool.
- Raven, you are the master of all high sneakiness. Throwing in the towel when AJ didn't know whether to trust Russo was a masterstroke. I bow before you. (or the writers or whoever. Someone deserves cookies)
And that's it.
