Atonement
Lately, I have this bad habit of watching movies and then letting them un-reviewed in my backlog. So, the truth is that I am waiting for my next package of movies to arrive tomorrow, along with three more movies I have to see: „Blow Up“, „Bug“ and „Time to live and time to die“. After those three, there still is quite a large number of films in my watchlist. However, I must admit that my newest addiction has actually tampered my obsession for movies a little lately: I started watching „Six Feet Under“ and love it to pieces. It manages to make me interested and addicted to it even though I actually dislike some of the characters! Brenda is probably the worst character I have ever seen in a story, and that is all TV shows, anime, books, movies etc. counted in. But what can I say? The story is just really, really well-written, and while I wish there were more funny scenes and a little less relationship emo, I can’t help but continue watching. „Six Feet Under“ made me remember again what it means to marathon a show again, and oh I love it.
And by the way, I also re-watched “Coffee & Cigarettes”, and I still love it just as much as 5 years ago!
It is ironic that this particular TV show would have such an effect on me. After all, a film like „Atonement“ actually also provides some very easily digestable and enjoyable distraction. Perhaps I just found myself to be unable to take this movie for serious, and I don’t actually feel like writing about it at all for a very simple reason: I knew the story before. No matter how great the directing is (and except for this one horrible war scene, it was nice and somewhat pittoresque), the emotional impact the end makes on the viewer is probably what makes the film so good. When I heard about the story, its tragedy impressed me so much that I wanted to see the movie or read the book. But the movie itself did not give that feeling back, and I doubt the book would. Then again, I think McEwan is an amazing writer, so I might pick up the book simply because I actually like the story.
For those who have read the book, I don’t see all that much merit in the film, although I think that it looks like a solid adaptation. For those who have not read the book and don’t know about the story yet, I would absolutely recommend the movie, because it really is doing a good job in what is wants to bring across. It’s just never going to be a classic or anything, it’s a Hollywood mainstream movie we are dealing with here, after all.
ZOMGF, you fell for Six Feet Under?! XXXD
Exactly one year ago I marathoned the whole series in the course of… one month.
But be prepared: It becomes worse and worse, more unrealistic and more soap-opera-like, but you just have to watch until the end because of the characters. (Ruth! <3) Well, sometimes I wanted to kill them all though.
So why don’t you like Brenda? I love her actress and of course she’s steretypical in every sense, but all the characters are (ex-bad-boy, closet gay, artsy emo teeny, blabla). I think the show doesn’t even fail in giving Brenda the “mysterious” attribute.
Hahaha, I knew that somebody would comment on this posting without saying one single word about “Atonement”, lol.
I don’t know, I think I barely have started watching it a week ago so I might just as well finish it within a month too, hahaha. In fact, I think I would enjoy the soap-opera elements of the show as long as the dark humour is still kept intact. So far, it is. <3
I love Ruth too! Hahaha, all of them are such bad people, but I love that. XXXD
What makes Brenda the most horrible person, I wonder… Well, perhaps it’s because there is nothing redeeming about her except that she loves Nate pretty deeply. Her actress always has this painful expression on her face that makes me feel pain too, and somehow I don’t even mind her being stereotypical. The horrible thing about her is that she is an egoistic bitch (as are most other characters in the show) and a pseudo-Freud at the same time. I really cannot stand her way of dealing with her relationships and her life at all, that’s it I guess.
Also, the other characters aren’t that stereotypical either: Claire is not really emo (in fact, she is only artsy but she never dressed black and pretends she’s suicidal), Nate is pretty much the most normal character after Ruth and isn’t all that bad, he just ran away from life a little and did nothing. Perhaps David is a little stereotypical, but he’s quite evil in his relationships too, that and his latent humour make up for being a closet gay. :3 So, every character is better than Brenda! XD