Strange Days
Dec. 1st, 2005 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethJust finished watching Strange Days
and rewatching the end because that kiss is just so perfect
it could have been a cliche new year kiss, but he leaves, and then thinks and comes back. and that makes it perfect. not reflex or being in the moment, he thought about it, and he decided he couldn't wait, and went back for her. I love that.
This whole film... I've watched it before, and the story is great, twisty and interesting and full of characters who grab me right from the first. Plus I really love Mace.
But this time through I kept noticing the craft of it, how it is put together. And the layers of meaning in it. The whole thing is about perception and reality, seeing and feeling, how seeing makes feeling and feeling makes seeing - we see what we want to see, expect to see, all that.
And also its about us the viewers, and how we're sitting there watching the ultra violence, and really where is the line where that gets creepy?
And all many more things.
I watch this and I want to dig out the Cultural Studies text books and write an essay.
This is how I know that's the right choice for university. I actively want to write an essay. I don't know as I could get any credit for it, but that isn't the point. I just want to apply all the stuff I know to this film, because then I'd know even more about it, and like it even more than I do.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed Point Break (another favourite) and Near Dark (vampire movie now sitting on my to-watch pile).
The thing I love about Point Break and Strange Days both, they've got this action plot, chase sequences, things blowing up, all the standards. And they've got detective stuff, with twists. And I like that they give you all the clues. I missed them, but they were there. But the plot is there because of the characters in it. I'm not saying that very well.
The characters create their own stories.
And they are characters I care about. With relationships and journeys I care about. They come out the end of the film fundamentally changed, and as we watched that happen they take us through it with them, and maybe we change a little.
Which is the point of stories. The big ones.
So, I love these movies.
I'm now going to decide between sleep and watching the commentary.
Is 0100 and I ate something my stomach doesn't like, so I'm thinking sleep, but I'm actually having to talk myself into it. Want to see how it was done.
and rewatching the end because that kiss is just so perfect
it could have been a cliche new year kiss, but he leaves, and then thinks and comes back. and that makes it perfect. not reflex or being in the moment, he thought about it, and he decided he couldn't wait, and went back for her. I love that.
This whole film... I've watched it before, and the story is great, twisty and interesting and full of characters who grab me right from the first. Plus I really love Mace.
But this time through I kept noticing the craft of it, how it is put together. And the layers of meaning in it. The whole thing is about perception and reality, seeing and feeling, how seeing makes feeling and feeling makes seeing - we see what we want to see, expect to see, all that.
And also its about us the viewers, and how we're sitting there watching the ultra violence, and really where is the line where that gets creepy?
And all many more things.
I watch this and I want to dig out the Cultural Studies text books and write an essay.
This is how I know that's the right choice for university. I actively want to write an essay. I don't know as I could get any credit for it, but that isn't the point. I just want to apply all the stuff I know to this film, because then I'd know even more about it, and like it even more than I do.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed Point Break (another favourite) and Near Dark (vampire movie now sitting on my to-watch pile).
The thing I love about Point Break and Strange Days both, they've got this action plot, chase sequences, things blowing up, all the standards. And they've got detective stuff, with twists. And I like that they give you all the clues. I missed them, but they were there. But the plot is there because of the characters in it. I'm not saying that very well.
The characters create their own stories.
And they are characters I care about. With relationships and journeys I care about. They come out the end of the film fundamentally changed, and as we watched that happen they take us through it with them, and maybe we change a little.
Which is the point of stories. The big ones.
So, I love these movies.
I'm now going to decide between sleep and watching the commentary.
Is 0100 and I ate something my stomach doesn't like, so I'm thinking sleep, but I'm actually having to talk myself into it. Want to see how it was done.