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dangermousieFirst off, for those few on my flist that haven't seen it yet, here is the pic of half-nekkid (yes, even more than in Colonial Day) littlest Adama (it's from one of the upcoming episodes and very moderately spoilery, as in "it involves more than just him and nothing else" so spoilerphobes beware). It's work-safe as it's a still from something to be shown on scifi at 10pm :D
In other news, I saw "The Constant Gardener" yesterday. I loved the non-linear structure of the film. Beautiful. It's actually a love story more than a thriller, which isn't so weird considering the only other LeCarre adapatation I've ever seen, "The spy who came in from the cold" was also that way.
Tired Dangermousie+Big Screen+Mireilles' signature jerkycam and super fast cuts=literally feeling nauseous in the theater and for the rest of the evening. People who think BSG overdoes it on handheld, just you wait!
Also, after seeing this movie, Ralph Fiennes is just completely, 100%, indubitably my image of book Remus Lupin. He's got the whole intelligence, and the weariness, and the withdrawal and the humanity...I am sure he will be a great Voldemort, but I am sorry, he is exactly my Remus. So there.
I thought he did an amazing job. There is this one scene where he is told his wife is dead (I am not spoiling anything as it starts the movie) and all you see on screen is his face and the only thing that changes at all is his eyes. And you can just see him curl up and die inside and you want to look away.
I just love his character. He is a very strong though quiet man, and you begin to realize it during the scene where he has to identify his wife's (horribly burned and mutilated) body. His colleague takes one look and ends up retching. But Ralph just IDs her, even though you see it's killing him to get the words out and he is the one who holds his throwing-up coworker.
And the one time you see him break down, at the door of his wife's flat, where they first made love, you just see his face through the glass and his sobs and it's so heartwrenchingly real and personal and you feel intrusive.
He is really good at portraying quiet decency. I guess the reason he is one of my favorites is because when you see him in a role, you can't imagine him ever playing anyone but this kind of character (in this case a quiet and really good man). I know in my brain he can obviously play very different characters (e.g. Goeth), but when I watch him, I cannot imagine it.
The lake where his wife was murdered is beautiful. I wanna go there, though hopefully not with a gang of murderers on my tail.
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I didn't care for Tessa I am afraid. You know, if you are investigating something and someone powerful tells you to stop or they will kill you, and you have a loving husband at home and plenty to live for, you stop. She is not like Justin, who has nothing to live for after her death and is really grieving horribly, and wants to avenge her. She has plenty of reasons to live.
Also, I believe in informed consent. Tell the guy what you are doing. Not only does he deserve to know and to make up his own mind, but that way he won't feel as if he is losing you. Though the scenes where he rediscovers her after her death and realizes just how much she loved him are amazing, it would have been a lot better for him if he could have had that understanding while she was still around! And it's not as if you saved him, as he got killed a few months after you.
The central plot is a macguffin. Why would any company test a TB drug on an HIV+ person? Their response will be very different than someone who doesn't have it, and thus worthless as a clinical trial. Plus, sorry, companies aren't really investing much $ in TB. But whatever...I did like that nothing much changed. The bad guy diplomat is in deep trouble, but the company just moved to Zimbabwe.
I absolutely loved the final scene, probably my favorite. When he has mailed that letter and he knows they will hunt him down so he just goes to the lake where she was killed and sits there waiting for the assassins, and he sees her (he sees her intermittently throughout the movie), and asks her, simply, "Would you like me to come home?" (Eearlier he told somebody that Tessa was his home). And then he hears the assassins get out of the car and he stands up and turns his back to them and closes his eyes and whispers "Tessa." And then you see a flock of birds fly up, as if disturbed by gunshots. Fadeout, the end. Wow.
Also, some more Roswell thoughts, Max-centric and dealing with the end of S2
Max is the kind of guy who is always looking for something to beat himself up about. He copes with the world by trying to have control (he is similar to Liz that way), which makes him feel he is responsible for everything which makes him feel waaaay more guilt than he should. And so when Alex dies, he feels guilty enough as is, without having to consider whether aliens offed him. The scene where he confesses to Tess (knowing what I know about the girl, it makes my skin creep to see her offer sympathy) and breaks down that he couldn't heal Alex and didn't want to touch him because there was all that blood, as if it's a mortal sin as opposed to a natural reaction, is heartbreaking. The boy takes too much responsibility on himself and in S2 it almost breaks him. Of course, it's not helped by the fact that Liz, who is also a control freak, is coping with her grief by trying to find something rational to do like investigate, and refuses any reasonable compromise he offers. Iz rejects his compromise as well. The guy is at the end of his rope. Liz is lost forever to him. Forget lovers, they are enemies now. Alex is dead, his life is spinning out of control, there is a human/alien conflict inside him. He really has all this guilt and fear about his loved ones and it results in him not wanting to lose control of the situation and of him and all of this comes out on Isabel who, when she rejects his Santa Fe option, makes him react not just to that but to everything else that has been happening to him. And then he snaps and then Tess. When it's horribly clear that he doesn't want to be human because he doesn't want to hurt any more. Argh.
In other news, I saw "The Constant Gardener" yesterday. I loved the non-linear structure of the film. Beautiful. It's actually a love story more than a thriller, which isn't so weird considering the only other LeCarre adapatation I've ever seen, "The spy who came in from the cold" was also that way.
Tired Dangermousie+Big Screen+Mireilles' signature jerkycam and super fast cuts=literally feeling nauseous in the theater and for the rest of the evening. People who think BSG overdoes it on handheld, just you wait!
Also, after seeing this movie, Ralph Fiennes is just completely, 100%, indubitably my image of book Remus Lupin. He's got the whole intelligence, and the weariness, and the withdrawal and the humanity...I am sure he will be a great Voldemort, but I am sorry, he is exactly my Remus. So there.
I thought he did an amazing job. There is this one scene where he is told his wife is dead (I am not spoiling anything as it starts the movie) and all you see on screen is his face and the only thing that changes at all is his eyes. And you can just see him curl up and die inside and you want to look away.
I just love his character. He is a very strong though quiet man, and you begin to realize it during the scene where he has to identify his wife's (horribly burned and mutilated) body. His colleague takes one look and ends up retching. But Ralph just IDs her, even though you see it's killing him to get the words out and he is the one who holds his throwing-up coworker.
And the one time you see him break down, at the door of his wife's flat, where they first made love, you just see his face through the glass and his sobs and it's so heartwrenchingly real and personal and you feel intrusive.
He is really good at portraying quiet decency. I guess the reason he is one of my favorites is because when you see him in a role, you can't imagine him ever playing anyone but this kind of character (in this case a quiet and really good man). I know in my brain he can obviously play very different characters (e.g. Goeth), but when I watch him, I cannot imagine it.
The lake where his wife was murdered is beautiful. I wanna go there, though hopefully not with a gang of murderers on my tail.
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I didn't care for Tessa I am afraid. You know, if you are investigating something and someone powerful tells you to stop or they will kill you, and you have a loving husband at home and plenty to live for, you stop. She is not like Justin, who has nothing to live for after her death and is really grieving horribly, and wants to avenge her. She has plenty of reasons to live.
Also, I believe in informed consent. Tell the guy what you are doing. Not only does he deserve to know and to make up his own mind, but that way he won't feel as if he is losing you. Though the scenes where he rediscovers her after her death and realizes just how much she loved him are amazing, it would have been a lot better for him if he could have had that understanding while she was still around! And it's not as if you saved him, as he got killed a few months after you.
The central plot is a macguffin. Why would any company test a TB drug on an HIV+ person? Their response will be very different than someone who doesn't have it, and thus worthless as a clinical trial. Plus, sorry, companies aren't really investing much $ in TB. But whatever...I did like that nothing much changed. The bad guy diplomat is in deep trouble, but the company just moved to Zimbabwe.
I absolutely loved the final scene, probably my favorite. When he has mailed that letter and he knows they will hunt him down so he just goes to the lake where she was killed and sits there waiting for the assassins, and he sees her (he sees her intermittently throughout the movie), and asks her, simply, "Would you like me to come home?" (Eearlier he told somebody that Tessa was his home). And then he hears the assassins get out of the car and he stands up and turns his back to them and closes his eyes and whispers "Tessa." And then you see a flock of birds fly up, as if disturbed by gunshots. Fadeout, the end. Wow.
Also, some more Roswell thoughts, Max-centric and dealing with the end of S2
Max is the kind of guy who is always looking for something to beat himself up about. He copes with the world by trying to have control (he is similar to Liz that way), which makes him feel he is responsible for everything which makes him feel waaaay more guilt than he should. And so when Alex dies, he feels guilty enough as is, without having to consider whether aliens offed him. The scene where he confesses to Tess (knowing what I know about the girl, it makes my skin creep to see her offer sympathy) and breaks down that he couldn't heal Alex and didn't want to touch him because there was all that blood, as if it's a mortal sin as opposed to a natural reaction, is heartbreaking. The boy takes too much responsibility on himself and in S2 it almost breaks him. Of course, it's not helped by the fact that Liz, who is also a control freak, is coping with her grief by trying to find something rational to do like investigate, and refuses any reasonable compromise he offers. Iz rejects his compromise as well. The guy is at the end of his rope. Liz is lost forever to him. Forget lovers, they are enemies now. Alex is dead, his life is spinning out of control, there is a human/alien conflict inside him. He really has all this guilt and fear about his loved ones and it results in him not wanting to lose control of the situation and of him and all of this comes out on Isabel who, when she rejects his Santa Fe option, makes him react not just to that but to everything else that has been happening to him. And then he snaps and then Tess. When it's horribly clear that he doesn't want to be human because he doesn't want to hurt any more. Argh.
