Saturday, 9 October 2010

"The Boat That Rocked"

Radio-pirates!

Lovely doc/mockumentary about radio-pirates on a boat in the North Sea, defying the government and its cold bans on everything inappropriate.

Great music, 1967's 1968's, wonderful characters, lively story.

The deleted scenes (45 min or so!) are almost just as much fun as the film.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Sam Cook - "Summertime"

bit "haunty" as the Doctor rightfully said

Hard Candy

Grim film with Ellen Page as a 14 yo taking revenge on a pedophile.

Explicit use of strong colours and repeating camera movements. Particularly the visual effect was interesting in the beginning, but it began to slightly wear off after a while.

There was a sudden change in colorisation (enough to make me wonder whether my TV was doing something weird) but it was probably meant to emphasize the change in mood. Should not be necessary.

Was a bit doubtful how believable his suicide in the end (persuaded by her, since his crimes would come out) was, but it was ok.

Interesting.