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flowerboy

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The Lost Language of Cranes

The Lost Language of Cranes

7.3
9
  • Apr 27, 2012
  • A dark, deep film

    I read the book way back in the 80s and I had heard it had been made into a movie. But it was only recently that I decided to look for it on the internet -- and voilà -- it was still there, just about alive. Yes, the film seems a little jaded after all these years, but I think it's a classic. Set in London in the 90s, it's about an intellectual middle class family (mother is a book editor, father a university teacher, son is (I think) a writer). The story was novel enough when the book came out. It was about a son coming out to his parents, thereby creating turmoil in the life of his father, who has been a closet gay all his life, furtively setting it off in porno theaters. The son's openly gay lifestyle is contrasted with the furtive lifestyle of the father. The best part of the movie and book, is the time the author and director gives to exploring the feelings of outrage of the mother. This is not a feel-good kind of movie but it will stay with you for a long time after you've seen it.
    L'Apprenti sorcier

    L'Apprenti sorcier

    6.1
    2
  • Jan 20, 2012
  • Whiney hero

    One of Hollywood's favourite themes has always been the reluctant hero who is finally persuaded and finally covers himself in glory. And gets the girl too. It worked in Die Hard but it doesn't work in this movie, which is annoying as hell. Jay Baruchel is the reluctant hero here, would be sorcerer's apprentice of the title, except that he'd rather be an ordinary nerd (he says so in so many words). He peed in his pants in front of everyone when he was 10 years old and he hasn't got over it. He whines and acts pathetic right till the end of the movie. He doesn't want to save the world, he just wants to get a date with a girl. Whew. Talk about loosers. He finally see the light in the last 15 minutes, but that's mostly because his girl is threatened. How are we supposed to feel about such a character, who is central to the movie? Baruchel was okay as the under achieving nerd in that other movie whose name I now forget, but here he just ruins the movie.
    Thor

    Thor

    7.0
    10
  • May 2, 2011
  • Superheroes don't incite wars

    I'm a great fan of superhero movies and I always go out and watch them on the big screen. This week, Thor was released in India a week before it's release in the USA and I dropped everything to go and see it. I wasn't disappointed. Though Thor is not as famous as Spiderman, Bat man, and I don't recall reading the comic, he is a Nordic God, so that makes him pretty big in the scheme of things right? As it shifts back and forth between earth and Thor's planet in another constellation, the movie uses 3D to great effect, much better than I've seen it used in recent movies like Tron. Chris Hensworth, last seen in The Perfect Getaway, makes for an charmingly adorable Norse God and Anthony Hopkins lends great presence in the role of his father, Odin. Shakespearean actor/director Kenneth Branagh adds lots of theatrical floorish to the proceedings, especially in the relationship between Odin and his two sons. The talented women in this film, Natalie Portman (Thor's would-be lady love), Rene Rousso (thor's mother), don't have much to do. Very little time is given to the romance between Thor and earthling scientist and I think it could possibly have been dispensed with totally (a movie without a love angle? why not?). The running theme of the movie is that good kings (and good superheroes) never incite wars, though they must be prepared for it when there is no other course of action. But it takes the protagonists a while to get this, and there's lots of battle in between.
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