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[beccaelizabeth]

I just watched on FilmFour+1 a film, I think it's called "A Matter of Life and Death". Is about an airman who accidentally doesn't die on schedule and lodges an appeal when they try and get him later. It's lovely. The way it starts is full of poetry and sadness. The story looks straightforward, love beating death, but they do fun things to follow it. They use black and white for the afterwards place and color for the living world, and there's all sorts of details like roses and stuff that link things together, and symbols like a tear on a rose that are just elegant. There's flying through the galaxy, and views of a courtroom that pull out until they're a spiral galaxy, and all sorts of shiny. And it's, like, ancient. Old film. So it could probably be done smoother now. But I don't know if it would be done better. It might even detract from the surreal dreamlike feel. So it's a film that definitely does what it sets out to do. I like it.

And despite having heard of it before I only now see it.

Sometimes I feel like there's more data in the world than I'll ever get around to finding. So many films, and books, and tv shows, so little time. And yet my time fills up with such dumb stuff. Time is weird.