i have no idea.....
2007-08-29 at 3:09 a.m.
Yes, it's 3am, and i have lessons at 10 tomorrow. Yes, i should be working, or sleeping, especially since i haven't done ANY vetting today. Yes, yes, yes.
but i am tooo blown away by Dead Again to sleep! ok, not true. i just wanted to blog about it, ok? pfft.
honesty. overrated, if you ask me..
but anyway.
back to Dead Again.
It's SO FRICKIN GOOD. i love Intro to Film. AND i got to switch to the tutorial i wanted! i like my tutor. NOT just because he let me change tutorial, but because he is the type of person who makes discussions nice and flow-y and easygoing. FILM ROCKS! we watched The Usual Suspects last week, and that one was fantastic, but Dead Again is just in a category of it's own. Both are excellent movies, and if you're reading this, find some time to watch them, really! if you think you've watched movies that play games with your mind, think again. you haven't till you've watched these two films. One is the perfect illustration of how a single actor can just steal the show with his intensity—kevin spacey is woah. he has that edward norton quality—or maybe i should say edward norton has a spacey-like intensity, i don't know, i've not seen enough of spacey to know if he's always like that, or if it was just the role. but woah. the usual suspects is just excellent. and dead again? what can i say? branagh just doesn't disappoint. there may be a certain 'typical-ness' to his films, but not about the stylistic devices, it's about the mind games he plays with you. the thing about the thriller is that you know, at a very basic level, what is going to happen—ironically, for a genre called the 'thriller'—which is why mst thrillers rely on the shock factor—making the bad guy jump out at an unexpected place, or gore, or a high body count and etc. but dead again is different. i'm not going to say why, exactly, because that'd spoil it for people who haven't yet watched it. but branagh literally uses the audience as a tool to achieve the thrill factor in his thriller. wow. i used to think he was overrated, but no longer, man! and he has a new one coming out soon!!! one of the few, i think, where he only directs, and doesn't act. the trailer looks fan-freaking-tastic! go check out out at apple.com/trailers. Sleuth. Jude Law and Michael Caine star, Branagh directs, and screenplay by Harold Pinter! there is NO REASON for me not to watch this. except, of course, that it's rated R, on apple, that is. and due for release in October. Presumably in the US, and although i really don't think it'll be 'delayed' till after april next year, and i really don't hope so, i am just going to watch it. i WILL. in the cinema. YES. just try to stop me!! *shakes fist at ambiguous theatre-villan or something like that*
right. so i really should be getting to sleep. i've realised that although i thought about going on a sleep-diet—5 hours a day, no more, no less, i really don't think it's feasible. I stay awake, and i pay attention in class, but i realised my mid-term memory, if there is such a thing, suffers from my lack of sleep. i become quite absent-minded, really. although at this point, i won't be getting that many hours. 6, if i get up at 930, which i won't be, 5 1/2 if i get up at 9. ohh, the trials of a working student. i hate myself for taking that job. GREED! greed will be the death of me!! and money!! the root of all evil!!! shakespeare was right. at least i think it was shakespeare who spawned that money-or-is-it-greed-that-is-the-root-of-evil discussion we had in sec1. yes, i rather think it was. merchant of venice, i think. ok, now i'm just rambling.
NIGHTSES!!
[exit yy, stage left, presumably to bed]