Friday night... stuff?
Man oh man.
It's Friday.
I would be incredibly stoked by that fact, but I work tomorrow too, so... bleh!
I'm happy that there are some new movies in theatres this week... well only three in logan, but every where else has a bunch.
Anyone who checks out that Myazaki movie, send me an email and let me know how it is.
My options for Logan, for at least new movies are: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, and High Intensity.
I'll end up seeing two of those movies, maybe all three.
I'm still wondering why The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is Playing on 3 screens through out the valley?
I'm sure it's a fine movie, I haven't seen it and can't make a comment on the quality of film.
It just doesn't seem like it would warrent large enough draw to be on three different screens.
I watch what movies are going to be released each week now, and I can say... every time I look i'm dissapointed in Logans theatres.
That's what happens when one company holds all the cards; quality and variety goes down.
Japanese cinema
Japanese cinema.
I found that I really enjoy japanese films.
Not necessarily anime, though Myouzoki (sp) is quite adept at what he does.
No i'm talking live action.
Kurasawa i've become a large fan of over the past few years.
I love his samurai movies: Yojimbo, Ran, The Hidden Fortress.
I've only seen one of his movies that isn't set in medieval japan (technically Yojimbo isn't medieval, more or less in the early 1800's) that's a movie called "Dreams"
I liked dreams.
It is a beautiful, surreal movie; many short tales, some of them tragic, some of the poignant, some unfinished. Dreams is very cool. You have to be in the right mood for it though.
Another, similarly surreal film is one by Takeshi Kitano entitled Dolls.
It's a love story, a perfectly tragic love story, actually three perfectly tragic love stories.
I would say that they are all bitter sweet, but that wouldn't be accurate, nor would be singling one out as bittersweet be accurate.
They are all tragic, but only because of the actions the people took; Usually the men.
There is despair, longing, penance in this film. Made all the more haunting by the beautiful cinematography and imagery.
If you're in the mood for an art film, and don't mind feeling a little depressed by the ultimate outcome of the movie (but never the less moved) get "Dolls"
Snee!
So it snowed this morning.
I shit you not, there was large fat snowflakes, falling from the sky.
It actually stuck on the lawn across the way.
Yeah, it sucked.
It's not snowing any more.
But that's got to piss you off.
The Corporation
I know Big Brother.
I know who/what Big Brother is now, and I can say it's not the government.
At least it's not the government in any strict sense.
It's corporation, big business, all of them.
You know that nagging suspicion you have that you're being watched, the paranoia that things are out to get you.
Well, I have it now.
Over the weekend I picked up a few movies, one of which was "the corporation"
Go see it.
Then you'll understand.
That movie taught me many things that I had no clue to. Such as:
1) Corporations are considered individuals.
Yep, had no idea, perhaps i was being naive, but under U.S. law a coporation is considered an individual.
Yeah, i know doesn't make sense to me either.
2)Coporations have used the 14th amendment more than the any one else... yeah it goes back to them being "individuals"
3)These "individuals" called corporations are psychopaths. That's right, the acti0ns and policies of corporations would make them psychotics if they were real people. (Profiled by an fbi psychologist on the special features disc)
4)There is stealth advertising. A company called Big Fat Inc actually has people who wear, talk, ask, order certain products in restuarants, convience and grocery stores, or simply talk about things on the street. They have these folks sign non-disclosure agreements, hell some of you might be doing it and I wouldn't even know.
5)Advertising to kids; yes we know they do it, they are crazy over it, now gearing towards infants because they discovered that they could recognize logos.
6)Privatization of natural resources...
7)Control of the media.
8)Control of the government, of course this only occurs when we the people let them control the government.
Sure, all of you are saying "Frank, this stuff is obvious, any moron could see it." True, but do you realize how pervasive it is? Do you realize how "owned" you are by corporations.
Spyware on computers, phone surveys, real life product placement and the power of suggestion.
We are programmed by the corporations, i'm not even going to talk about the enviromental impact.
This movie is insane, and what frightened me the most wasn't the anti-corporation interviews the filmmakers conducted, but the interviews with the coporate people.
That's what's really frightening.
Go see this movie, rent it watch all the deleted scenes, what the three hours on the extra disk.
It'll make you think, and if you're like me, make you paranoid.
