I cried at Star Wars. <<me and you and everyone we know>> (621 hits)
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Submitted by Sicknote (View user info) at 2005-08-31 09:35:17 EDT
I just (last night) watched a very strange film - thinking it would be a dark comedy full of cynical dialogue and the odd disgusting laugh, I dragged my bloke along to see 'Me and You and Everyone We Know'.
To be fair, the only thing I knew about it was a spoiler of the opening, which is where our male lead sets alight to his own hand and waves it through the window at his kids.
SOLD.
Who WOULDN'T want to see a sick, depraved film like that? But even though I was initially disappointed (he wasn't manic and scary enough) I loved it. And I cried at the death of a fish. Which is the real reason I'm writing this.
It was a sad film, ok? Unexpectedly but beautifully sad. And we're talking about possibly the only person ever to cry at Star Wars: A New Hope. But when Christine (our protagonist - a lonely visual artist with low ankles) is driving along with her elderly friend and spots a fish in a bag left on the top of someone's car, she holds a quickie funeral/last rites in its honour. And I should have laughed. But Jebus O'Reilly, I could feel myself welling up, and then the fish falls onto another person's car and then it's gone and off I went - Niagara Falls in the back row of the movies AGAIN.
Do you remember Titanic? Of course you do - appalling over-acting and Kate Winslet with her baps out (no change from usual there then - I mean, have you seen Quills? Disgraceful). And if you saw it at Greenwich Cinema, London, on a particular Thursday night in '97 you would have seen a certain 10 year old bawling her eyes out - not for Leo ('heartthrob' though he was) but for the simple fact that I go all mushy as soon as they start to tug on the old heart strings.
I am a bloody tool, feeling whatever the damn director wants me to. I go weak at the knees over the foxy bad boys with sexy foreign accents, but secretly cheer on the goody-two shoes hero Bruce (Die Hard, anyone?), cry when baddies who repent die (Boromir) and feel lifted and strangely aroused when Gwyneth and Joseph romp in the sack (phwoar, eh?).
Hollywood was MADE for saps like me. I'm the only completely cynical, blunt, vaguely intelligent, foreign and independent film fan I know (and I know a couple) who loved Love Actually. Yeah, I cried at that too.
But this film was awesome - not just sad but funny enough that we (me, bloke and every stuck-up Londoner in the cinema) laughed out loud and didn't care who saw. I don't know if you've ever seen a band here or been in a band and played London, but we are the biggest bunch of under whelmed, too-cool-for-school wankers you'll ever meet and to make us roll in the aisles is no mean feat.
This film was GOOD.
And the bloody amazing thing about it is this:
Written by: Miranda July
Directed by: Miranda July
Starring: Miranda July as Christine.
She's a genius! I shall leave you with the best scene in the entire film.
Christine is a video artist. In one scene she contemplates the games we play in the most fucking gorgeous way ever - writing 'me' and 'you' on her new pink shoes with a sharpie, she films them chasing and nudging and shying away from each other with her camera.
See this film. It won't make you cry, unless you're anything like me. But it will make you spray coke out of your nose into the Hoxton fin of the tosser in front. And he won't care.
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-03-09 02:56:45 EST (#)
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how the fuck did I miss this one?
here's mine.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/82347
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-09 02:31:35 EST (#)
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yeah, i was right, you're good enough to keep alive
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-08-31 10:48:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sicknote (user info) at 2005-08-31 10:42:49 (#)
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I just hate the way everything has to be a rant. This movie made me fucking orgasmic - called it how i saw it.
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I wouldn't take it personally, the heat is affecting everybody's judgement. Once we get into autumn everthing will be fine I promise.
Submitted by Sicknote (user info) at 2005-08-31 10:42:49 EDT (#)
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I just hate the way everything has to be a rant. This movie made me fucking orgasmic - called it how i saw it.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2005-08-31 10:39:45 EDT (#)
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Worth reading, but wasn't moved by your over emotional post.
Sorry Sicknote
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-08-31 10:08:21 EDT (#)
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For no immediatly obvious reason you make me feel very suspiscous of you, as a person not a writer. Wouldn't worry, it's probably just the humidity fucking with my head.
Good post, if rather dull.
Submitted by Sicknote (user info) at 2005-08-31 09:56:22 EDT (#)
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Aargh I forgot the ))<>((.
Tarnation.
Submitted by aerodynamically.curvaceous (user info) at 2005-08-31 09:55:30 EDT (#)
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Macaroni.
))<>((
Submitted by ozzy (user info) at 2005-08-31 09:50:18 EDT (#)
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You make a pretty compelling case for seeing this movie.
Welcome to Uber.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-08-31 09:39:21 EDT (#)
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Same thing happened to me when I saw Buckaroo Banzai.