Brick
I have waxed lyrically on Rian Johnson's other film, The Brothers Bloom, in one of my earlier posts. This movie is based on the same principle. Take two styles of movies and mash them up into an amalgamation of both. And Brick does that in spades.
Imagine a high school setting with your typical stereotypes: the jock, the spoiled little rich girl, the 'outcasts', the geek and the wise-ass protagonist. All of which are thrust into film noir cinematography, as the lingo and the plot twists soon reveal. Nothing is what it might seem and the entire movie just sweeps you off your feet. Kudos to mr. Johnson, I will be downloading your scripts and read them from cover to cover.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
From cinematics to the bibliophilic. Burgess' novel was a lot easier to get into than when I last read it. (a good ten years and a lot less experience with English novels ago)
The book takes some getting used to, with the lingo up the bazoomny on every page.
But after a couple of chapters you get the hang of whatever it is they're saying, no matter the situation. I must say I quite enjoyed the story, grim and grimy as it is, as well as the full circle storytelling that happens.
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
From books again to cinematics, of an animated kind this time.
Studio Ghibli released their latest creation, an adaptation of the Little Mermaid.
In lovely pastels and water colors, the Ghibli magic does its work once more.
Although the story is a bit childish and the imagery might have been a bit better, but I quite enjoyed it. Bring your little brothers/sisters, they will love it.
J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
To finish the final part of J.K. Rowling's saga, this little booklet gives you every little bed time story you want to read to aspiring witches and wizards (who should be in bed by seven, of course)
But it did prompt me, along with the Half-Blood Prince movie, to reread book six in the series. Hopefully I can find the lapses in the story.
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