The Movie Journal is a compilation of notes and opinions of films that have been viewed by the birds. They aren’t necessarily reviews, but they definitely shed some light on what our contributors think of the mentioned piece of cinema.
THE FALL
Dir. Tarsem Singh (2006 / 2007
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In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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Well the last couple of months have certainly been quite eventful and uneventful at the same time. Summer is almost over and it’s time to look back. Some people may not understand, how I can just bum around all summer without actually achieving anything that can be called productive. But I did it, for the most parts. This summer was certainly odd. I felt like I was watching an old, melodramatic, foreign but somehow familiar television series unravel before me. Vancouver was weird, something changed me and made me a lot more detached than I should while I was back there.
It became incredibly hard for me to relate to people, and actually acknowledge them as individuals. But then, of course the summer came, and I was basically tight-packed into a claustrophobic situation that is Asia. It gave me no other option but to deal, and that’s a good thing.
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Dear Snails… Snailkind?
I recently moved to your area. I did not really know it was your area actually until tonight. In fact, until tonight I wasn’t sure snails actually existed in the wild. I believe until this evening the only snails I had ever seen were either in someone’s fish tank, or stuffed into mushrooms and sautéed with garlic and butter. For all I knew the only wild snails existed in those clever cartoons depicting one of you on a turtle’s back exclaiming “WEEEEE!” as the wind rushed through your antennae. (You see, to humans, you exist for the sole purpose of making metaphors for slow people, and the aforementioned consumption). However, all of my delusions were shattered this evening when I went for a walk and killed several of you. (more…)
So I am in Jakarta, I have been here for a few days now. It’s still as hectic and as disorienting as I remembered it from my last visit almost eight months ago. It’s only been days, but it feels like forever.
I hate to say this, but there’s something about Jakarta that just pisses me off. I’m not comfortable here. Well, duh, I mean I’ve been living abroad almost my entire life now. I lived in places that are pretty accessible, and where you don’t have to depend so much on people to get around and/ or get things done. It’s terrible. I have two maids in the house, and both of them are younger than me. I’m 21 years old. Yeah. It feels awkward to have them do chores and get things done for me. I also have a driver who drives me around whenever I need to go out and do things.
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Once in awhile, the gang would stumble upon shiny, sparky, somewhat interesting things. From art, to random shenanigans. From profound, to inexplicably stupid. The birds do, find things.
I’m just going to be blunt and say it. A lot of shit comes out of VFS, a lot. But, just like any other big corporate entity, the school spends a lot of money in marketing the institution (often more than the money that they actually spend for the programs themselves.) At the Film Production program, only 6 Dramas get selected and made from each class, which makes the program quite competitive. I hate to say this, but for a creative school, VFS tends to opt for movies that are ’safe’ and easy to digest. The result? a lot of hokey comedies, and just a bunch of student movies that I just dislike or completely hate.
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