discovering new songs every day!
this one might be a bit too slow or cheese for some.
i felt it when i heard it first.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday = Big Bear Time
Winter brings on many changes in animals lives, whether it be migration by animals such as the whales, seals, turtles, eels, crabs, fish, butterflies etc.
However, for some animals hibernation is the preferred method of escaping the cold of winter.
For example, the small ground squirrel illustrates some of the remarkable changes that take place. It’s body temperature drops to within a few degrees of the cold outside its den. The heart will beat only once or twice a minute. When it is active, the squirrel may breathe a few hundred times each minute, but in hibernation it takes a slow breath only once every five minutes. Despite these changes, its blood remains saturated with oxygen, and little used muscles remain in tone ready for action when they awaken. Bears however, are not true hibernators. The body temperature of bears stays normal. They burn an estimated 4,000 food calories a day. While in hibernation they can awake and move about quite often. Yet they can exist for three months or more without food or water.
During their hibernation, the bears neither defecate or urinate. This would normally mean that nitrogenous wastes during that time would cause poisoning to the urinal system. However this it does not do. The bear solves its nitrogenous waste problem by a form of recycling." The hibernating bears body diverts nitrogen from pathways that synthesise urea into pathways that generate amino acids and new proteins. And it does this by glycerol (produced when fats are metabolized) and recycled nitrogen as the building blocks" according to the New Scientist Magazine of February 1985.
The female grizzly bear will have her cubs during the winter hibernation. During hibernation she does not eat or drink anything at all, yet still she is able to nurse and care for her cubs. The mating period usually occurs in may to early July each year, and the cubs are born generally around January or February, right during the cold winter months. But the gestation period is not very long for the female. She has very tiny offspring usually weighing only a pound or two at birth, so it is easier for her to nurse and feed them even though she does not eat or drink anything during those months.
Compared with winter hibernation of animals such as woodchucks, squirrels, snakes, frogs, and so forth, the winter sleep of many bears is only a series of naps. This is because the slumber of bears in the winter may be disturbed, as their body temperature stays high and their breathing remains at the normal rate. Some will even awake on their own accord in the winter and prowl around for a few hours or days at a time.
Scientists in Yellowstone Park discovered that grizzly bears were likely to choose dens where they would not likely be disturbed. Some of the dens were right on canyon walls where it would be very difficult for access by anyone or anything. All of the dens that were on slopes faced north, so that warm spells would not warm up the den and awake the sleeping bear. The dens were cozily lined with a fine insulation of pine and fir boughs.
It has also recently been discovered that grizzly bears would not enter their dens for hibernation until the onset of a blizzard, the type of blizzard that would quickly cover their tracks as they entered into their dens. This would serve as a fine protection for them during their hibernation, as no one would know that there was a sleeping bear deep inside of that den.
It would not be very practical for bears to refuse to play their roles in preparation for their hibernation necessary for their survival of the harshness of winter. In fact for them to ignore this would literally mean death for them. However, bears are not of such intelligence to appreciate the signs of approaching winter, but they act on an inbuilt instinct that moves them in such a way for their self-preservation.
Where man can read the signs of the weather, and can note on a calendar to see when winter is approaching, the bear does not have the same kind of intelligence.
However, for them to hibernate means their survival. These cold changes in the winter months can be taken for granted by man. Yet, for animals it is a time of great changes.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Saturday>Friday
10:00 - Young Lions @ Britannia CC for Film Festival 4 Peace
12:14 - Art Sale @ Mindan's House
16:20 - Babko Residence to check on the Grinders!
19:00 - TCC Gym
22:00 - Banana Peelers
22:40 - NBA JAM
03:24 - sleep?
Monday, December 13, 2010
RIPs aka Despicable Accents + Stories
Well time to put to rest "Dexter" as a TV Show, it was great for 2 seasons, too bad for me i watched it all the way through this 5th season, and while watching the finale i was swearing to myself that this is it! The show became too cheesy, too unrealistic, and simply pointless.
Kind of the way i did with the "Rubicon" earlier this year. After maybe the fifth episode it was giving me the blue balls. I hanged around till the seventh, but i was spitting in the air and trying to catch it, thats how boring the show was. Have to say the acting was big part of the boredom, never mind the worse plot/story ever for trying to be a mystery/conspiracy show.
Also a big RIP goes out to one of the movies that i was excited for only based on the suspenseful trailers that were released way ahead of the movies release date. What saved this movie was the music for obvious reasons that Hans Zimmer worked on it. Steve Carrel is the lead voice, or should i say some horrible Russian type of an accent. Maybe i am offended by it or maybe i just don't get it...
Official Zhukowski Rating: 6.2/10 bananas
Am i becoming a harsh critic? Have i always been this way? IS this just 'bad run' of few bad TV shows/films in a row? Hopefully!
Friday, December 10, 2010
You Are Out There
1 month ago 48 
Official Zhukowski Rating: 7.9/10 bananas + bonus 0.5 banana for actor being bananas and pulling this off, no matter from what side you look at it.
User Reviews
I'm Still Here - But Not All There
I'M STILL HERE will have people wondering - is Joaquin Phoenix all there? The twice Oscar-nominated actor (Gladiator and Walk The Line) is directed by his brother-in-law, the Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) in a documentary about a year in his life (Australian release - September 16).
It covers the period from when he blurted out he was leaving acting for hip hop, includes the infamous interview with David Letterman and serves as a reminder of the flipside of fame.
Did we need reminding?
Well, yeah - the current human addiction to fame is out of control. Ask a lot of people what they want in life and they'll say 'to be famous' - not to do anything amazing which results in a modicum of fame - it's fame in itself and for itself.
And such empty fame is a very destructive force. The Wright Brothers found fame by getting people to fly. That's good. Linsday Lohan found fame by crash landing her life. That's bad. She ignored the gift of her acting talent by getting distracted with the shiny wrapping paper of attention. (It's a very different thing to recognition.)
The beer-gutted, bearded, babbling boy that is Joaquin Phoenix is a revelation in the doco. The audience I was with laughed out loud all the way through it. And sure, it's funny - in a tragic way - like when a cat falls into a bathtub.
The thing is - I really understood a lot of what Phoenix was saying.
What bugs him bugs most people - to be misunderstood. He feels trapped by being defined as an actor the same way a dentist would if he or she yearned to be free to become a professional golfer but was told not to. I understood how maddening it was for Phoenix to be twice-nominated for Oscars which resulted in him gathering heaps of people around him that want him to pursue acting because 'he'd be crazy not to'. Agents, managers and friends felt he was at the pinnacle of success when really, he was at the precipice of a kind of prison.
I don't reckon he seriously wanted to be a hip hop artist - but he did want the freedom to do whatever he wanted to do professionally - whatever that may be. Unfortunately, stream of consciousness got the better of him and he shot his mouth off before he thought about what he was going to say.
He's become a peculiar kind of reality show Macbeth. A Howard Hughes of Hollywood - minus the mega cash.
The doco highlights the myth about acting and stardom. An actor is not 'brilliant' or a 'genius'. Pretending to be someone else convincingly is simply being a terrific phoney, an adept fraud and a well-crafted con artist - in a legal environment. It doesn't cure cancer or change the lives of people needing help from, say, Amnesty International. Acting is just a process of not being yourself.
What Joaquin Phoenix proves is this: there is freedom in being crazy and you don't have to be crazy to know that.
He looks less Boho and more hobo. The hair on the back of his head is coming alive like Medusa, holding its own performance and provides a metaphor for what's going on inside his head.
So how good is he at hip hop? He's 2 maybe 3 out of 5. Rhyming 'Wuckeen' with 'spleen' won't win awards or become a tattooed slogan on a fan's arm.
And there's something so very broken about the badly taped up arm of his Buddy Holly-styled permanent sunglasses.
It's a shame when people who are good at one thing yearn to be good at another when they don't have the skills and tools to pull it off. It also makes me a bit mad that they are so ungrateful for the one gift they do have. Then again - is a gift really seen as a gift if you don't want it?
Poor assistant Anton is abused in such a way, it's easy to see that Phoenix uses him to bash himself up. And Anton is a willing subservient whipping boy. He uses him like a tea towel to wipe his dirty feelings.
It's almost as if Joaquin has heard people say that awful thing - that the wrong brother died outside the Viper Room all those years ago. Maybe it makes him mad and hurt, hence the title. 'River isn't, but I'M STILL HERE.
So - is I'M STILL HERE a hoax? Phoenix's stab at immortality through immorality on a public stage? Starlets use weight gain and loss, so the guys stick a question mark over their sanity? Is this the greatest role Joaquin has ever played?
Could be. After all - there are a few parallels between this doco and DIG! - the doco about The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. And both star a 'character' called Anton.
If it's not a hoax, Joaquin is a guy on the edge. Is he a suicide candidate? Possibly. Does he need help? Definitely.
But if it is a hoax, then we're the ones who need help. And we should have the guts to admit it.
We've been conned.
But we've been conned over and over again by the high level spin doctoring that typifies 21st century marketing and promotion. And while we're all sniggering at his decrepit body and vagrant appearance, he's really holding up a mirror to everyone sitting in the cinema.
We're the ones who are ugly and crazy. And while we're at it, we can add cruel and unkind to that description too.
I feel sorry for him and sad for us.
Rare Times in Charlestown
On very rare occasions to i trash a movie after seeing it.
I try to never see movies that i feel will be below the "6/10" scale.
But this particular movie did exactly that. It was hyped by a lot of people. And i was looking forward to watching this 'gem'. Yet after seeing it i want my hundred and twenty minutes of life back!
The action itself was good, i guess. The plot and story as cheesy and unbelievable as ________ . Have to admit they did pull of a great cast, but so did the people that made The Expendables.
Maybe it is simply not my cup of a tea movie.
Maybe its too hollywoodish for my taste.
Maybe Ben Affleck did it just to bury his sins with some girl he knows in real life.
Maybe i am being too honest and harsh.
Not Sure. Yes. Yes. Maybe. No.
Official Zhukowski Rating: 5.9/10 bananas
Do NOT read anything below (as usual) if you are planning on still seeing this movie
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Honesty is the Policy
Artists make the best art when they are good at what they doing.
The media which they have worked in.
When they have an open mind.
And mostly when they are bluntly honest about their feelings.
Without any care about what the "world" thinks of it.
And I always find, yeah, I always find somethin’ wrong
You been puttin’ up wit’ my shit just way too long
I’m so gifted at findin’ what I don’t like the most
So I think it’s time for us to have a toast
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags!
Let’s have a toast for the assholes!
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast for the jerkoffs
That’ll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
She find pictures in my email
I sent this bitch a picture of my dick
I don’t know what it is with females
But I’m not too good at that shit
See, I could have me a good girl
And still be addicted to them hoodrats
And I just blame everything on you
At least you know that’s what I’m good at
And I always find
Yeah, I always find
Yeah, I always find somethin’ wrong
You been puttin’ up wit’ my shit just way too long
I’m so gifted at findin’ what I don’t like the most
So I think it’s time for us to have a toast
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags!
Let’s have a toast for the assholes!
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast to the jerkoffs
That’ll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
Run away from me, baby
Run away
Run away from me, baby
Run away
Never thought it would get crazy
Just run away
Baby, I got a plan
Run away as fast as you can
Run away from me, baby
Run away
Run away from me, baby
Never thought it would get crazy
Why can’t she just run away?
Baby, I got a plan
Run away as fast as you can
(Pusha T)
24/7, 365, pussy stays on my mind
I-I-I-I did it, all right, all right, I admit it
Now pick your next move, you could leave or live wit’ it
Ichabod Crane with that motherfuckin’ top off
Split and go where? Back to wearin’ knockoffs, ha?
Knock it off, Neiman’s, shop it off
Let’s talk over mai tais, waitress, top it off
Hoes like vultures, they wanna fly in your Freddy loafers
You can’t blame ‘em, they ain’t never seen Versace sofas
Every bag, every blouse, every bracelet
Comes wit’ a price tag, baby, face it
You should leave if you can’t accept the basics
Plenty hoes in the baller-nigga matrix
Invisibly set, the Rolex is faceless
I’m just young, rich, and tasteless
P!
(Kanye)
Never was much of a romantic
I could never take the intimacy
And I know it did damage
‘Cause the look in your eyes is killin’ me
I’m guessin’ you’re at an advantage
‘Cause you could blame me for everything
And I don’t know how I’ma manage
If one day you just up and leave
And I always find
Yeah, I always find somethin’ wrong
You been puttin’ up with my shit just way too long
I’m so gifted at findin’ what I don’t like the most
So I think it’s time for us to have a toast
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags!
Let’s have a toast for the assholes!
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags
Every one of them that I know
Let’s have a toast to the jerkoffs
That’ll never take work off
Baby, I got a plan
Run away fast as you can
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Let The Right One In [2008, Sweden]
It is such a pleasure to watch a movie without seeing the trailer or knowing much of anything really but the fact that is is a well made film. This is exactly what happened here. Heard many good things about this one. Knew that i would have to focus while watching it (as should be with any film in general).
The setting adds such lovely appeal to the movie. 1982. Snow. Sweden. Middle class. Small working town.
The main beauty of the film is in the acting of the two leading characters. Their interactions, without much words.
Official Zhukowski Rating: 8.3/10
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So the reason you believe your ending is better, even though it could be just as much of a stretch as the others, is because the other endings would be pointless. What I am saying is that they are not pointless. I think alot of people see this movie through the eyes of Eli while others see the movie through the eyes of Oskar. If you see this movie through the eyes of Oskar then you see a person who could go down the wrong way in life but then suddenly someone comes along who seems to completely understands him, doesnt judge him and cares very much for the "true" him. Why? Because this person is very wise. This person knows what lifes about and goes right to the heart of the matter. Why? Because this person is twice as old as the oldest person on earth and has alot more experience in seeing the patterns in life and this person finds out what is true and what is false on a much higher level than us mortals. This person must also kill humans. So you have a person who is smart and must kill. This person sees a lonely boy stabbing a tree saying "die, die". Yes its also true that this person is very lonely, just as lonely as this person is wise and experienced. It is also true that this person is stuck as a young child which compounds the feeling of being lonely and lost. But we cant read this persons mind and differ what is the lost and lonely part and what is the killing/surviving part.So we see all these things that could go either way. So back to the original question, what is the point of Eli being manipulative. The point is that this beautiful thing that happened between them has the possibility of going to complete sht. Its up to you to decide but the possibility makes it like your wondering if the person you deeply love, loves you back but even more worrisome because you could be enslaved by that love and kill innocent people for it. Its the extreme dichotemy of heaven or hell. Another take is that Eli is not manipulative at all but she still could have met Hakan at a young age and they both could have loved each other like she and Oskar love each other. Elis mind though has stayed the same and because she is stuck as a child forgot that she loved Hakan and began to love him as a father. When she meets Oskar, Hakan realizes that he has been replaced. Its not Elis fault though. |
29/5/27
How am i this scared of life? Not living the way i preach as in the right way of doing so. Yet not being able because of some mental, behavioral or basic human emotions?
Maybe it all is as 'black and white' as black and white really is...
Not able to view life for what it is on its most basic and of course it would have to be most important level...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Destiny
Watching 'Beautiful Losers' right now. How do most events in my recent life seem to be blimps of fate? Whether it has to do with music, love, films, friendships, and art. At this specific moment i am watching this film that i downloaded close to a year ago, based on a recommendation by Chris Killoran (a guy from my high school basketball team) that i saw on Facebook. I have been saving time to see this for a while now, and it feels so fitting to watch it just few days after discovering Vancouver Art Crawl (thanks to Sylvia and Iulia)!
Official Zhuk Rating: 8.1/10 bananas
Official Zhuk Rating: 8.1/10 bananas
I might not be able to wait until summer to start painting. Really want to read up more on everything and have my brain just explode eventually. It would never have to be anything amazing or pretty. It will just be me - what i am made of and what did make me.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thus Spoke Zhukowski
something has been missing up till now!
"creative/artistic output" - thanks, Iulia.
love something = throw yourself into it. crashing head on!
can't keep thoughts away from it.
zero action at work still...
need space? cooperative weather? tools?
why such strong emotions to something never done before?
(never using the word "I", because "i" am nothing really.
just a product of my surrounding. and there have been many.)
how important the people around and their influence?
oh so so much.
want to absorb /swallow the whole world into my head.
accepting of the negativity of the world of course.
but it would be negated (odd thing to state - negativity would be
negated),
by the knowledge and understanding.
would it?
or too much dreaming?
how hard does one dream/meditate till it becomes reality?
oh how powerful can one person be!
there is this line: "i can be anything on the internet"
well,
we are all forgetting that we can be anything/anyone in our everyday life!
everyday is present as in The Present/The Gift.
how different we all are yet all the same all at the same time.
love this world and everyone in it!
only wish everyone and the world knew this.
there is nothing i want in return then all of their well being...
Friday, November 26, 2010
Random Thoughts
Blah blah blah blabiddy blah, thats how it all sounds if anyone would listen to any human conversation. What makes us different from any other animal in the world? Of course this has already been answered! But are we forgetting to 'think outside of the box'? Or has the first question been so beat to the ground by the bright minds in our history that there is no real point to it? Probably. One might only need to search long enough or get educated to know. Can we trust those answers? Or does the world and our own existence keep changing and evolving while we are stuck in the old ways and mainly with the old answers? This is more directl towards the fact that maybe we are not at the top of this 'food chain', just maybe, not anymore. Only if we think outside of the box can we start asking such questions and look for answers that might not even lead us the original question but open our minds to most of the problems of the world today. It may be not even on such a big scale but just maybe help us understand one another better. Well since of course the world is such a big place. Is it? Or is it not? In my eyes it does not matter, what matters is that it is fascinating, beautiful and wonderful! Bladiddy blah blah blah...
HKx2
TIME + NATURE + HONESTY + PATIENCE + VIRTUE + ... = GOOD* LIFE
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Lady Vengeance
Finally had time to see 2nd movie from the Korean trilogy by Cha-wooh Park. First one being OldBoy (one of my all time favorites) that i saw some five years ago. At the time it blew my mind. Now i can see how being older i might have predicted the ending. But none-the-less that movie and this one "Lady Vengeance" are very well done artistically. A few good philosophical and moral questions arise. I am a bit too sleepy/tired to write them down at the moment.
by r-magar (Mon Jan 19 2009 14:50:55)
"I dont think she deserved the forgivness she was looking for.
Near the end of the film, the little boy she kidnapped apppears in front of her. She goes over to say something, maybe to apologise or to ask for forgivness. The boy turns into an adult, the age he would be if he were alive. He shakes his head with sadness and walks away.
I dont believe she should be forgiven because she was essentially not a nice person for the following reasons:
- She kidnapped the boy, wanting to get ransom for him. She was old enough (16) to know better, even if she was fed lies re: theory of "good and bad kidnappings"
- She confessed to a murder which she knew she was not guilty of. Instead of telling the police who he was, she decided to be wrongly imprisoned. I know her daughter was in danger, but this was selfish, though understandable. What about the feelings of the dead boys family? They would want justice, not the real killer still free. No wonder she was going to cut off her fingers for forgivness.
- Because she confessed to the crime, this enabled the real killer to kill other children. She indirectly caused this, since she had the power to stop it in the first place.
- In prison she changed completely to get released early and make friends on the outside. She was really decieving these people, killing their enemies (the big lesbian woman for example), being lovers with that girl and being overtly religious, to use them to her advantage in her plan for revenge after her release. She didnt care about these people.
She knew herself, that deep down inside she was a bad person. You can maybe equate her to the likes of Myra Hindley or a Rose West, whose partners did the more worse of the crimes.
I have sympathy for what she went through, and you were rooting for her, and her plan, to kill the bigger fish. I am perhaps being a bit harsh on her, but do you see where I am coming from?"
by r-magar (Mon Jan 19 2009 14:50:55)
"I dont think she deserved the forgivness she was looking for.
Near the end of the film, the little boy she kidnapped apppears in front of her. She goes over to say something, maybe to apologise or to ask for forgivness. The boy turns into an adult, the age he would be if he were alive. He shakes his head with sadness and walks away.
I dont believe she should be forgiven because she was essentially not a nice person for the following reasons:
- She kidnapped the boy, wanting to get ransom for him. She was old enough (16) to know better, even if she was fed lies re: theory of "good and bad kidnappings"
- She confessed to a murder which she knew she was not guilty of. Instead of telling the police who he was, she decided to be wrongly imprisoned. I know her daughter was in danger, but this was selfish, though understandable. What about the feelings of the dead boys family? They would want justice, not the real killer still free. No wonder she was going to cut off her fingers for forgivness.
- Because she confessed to the crime, this enabled the real killer to kill other children. She indirectly caused this, since she had the power to stop it in the first place.
- In prison she changed completely to get released early and make friends on the outside. She was really decieving these people, killing their enemies (the big lesbian woman for example), being lovers with that girl and being overtly religious, to use them to her advantage in her plan for revenge after her release. She didnt care about these people.
She knew herself, that deep down inside she was a bad person. You can maybe equate her to the likes of Myra Hindley or a Rose West, whose partners did the more worse of the crimes.
I have sympathy for what she went through, and you were rooting for her, and her plan, to kill the bigger fish. I am perhaps being a bit harsh on her, but do you see where I am coming from?"
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Marchioness Disaster
Summer 2006.
This next video made be a stronger believer in what i believe.
Also made me realize how technology can spread human spirit and goodness.
Ever since then Youtube has been a great part of my learning process and entertainment.
But back to this video. It was probably one of the first videos i ever saw there. I have no idea how i came upon it. I wish to know how i was able to find it. Who sent it to me? But i am very glad that it did happen.
Present day, November 2010
i Believe as i have always believed that life is wonderful/beautiful!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
El Duderino
"It's a travesty that most critics only read The Big Lebowski at its most superficial level and called it a modern take on a Raymond Chandler potboiler. I simply can't begin to perceive how one could sit down in front of this cinematic pop-poetry, as it plates gold on the silver screen, and not feel so incredibly alive. The dream sequence Busbee Berkley musical numbers are unique and awe-inspiring; the humor is rich, subtle, and clever in the way it satirizes politically correct arrogance; the free-flowing story avoids (even pokes fun at) nonessentials like plot points and pay-offs. But what really makes this film such a masterpiece, such a panacea, is the incredible humanism, the care that the Coen brothers put in developing The Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), Donnie (Steve Buscemi-tremendously endearing), and Brandt (magnificently played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Looking at the films use of Sam Elliott to play The Stranger, who constantly rambles about the many wonders of The Dude (among other things), it is clear that the film is an ode to a Dudist way of life. And in a time where so many film promise that they have the answer to the worlds problems and end up as slick, stylistic show-off films, what more could one ask for than a good-hearted film like this? Not to mention the performance by Jeff Bridges, which ranks among the best performances of the nineties; he has a relaxed slouch, a goofy smile, an enthusiastic dance, and his buttons can only be pushed by Walter, who John Goodman plays with charm and fury. The Coen brothers have always been considered 'cold' filmmakers, but there is nothing here but warmth and humanity (as is the case with the Coens' Fargo). What we have here is one of the greatest achievements in modern cinema and if you can't see that, grab a White Russian, hit the bowling ally, and find your inner-Dude as soon as possible."
Monday, October 25, 2010
"Amazing" (No Pun Intended)!
this right after i just read a story with the main character's name of Phoenix Jackson!
reading more in-depth about allegory and symbolism!
about "black" vs "white" discriminations!
right after VIFF!
about arts!
wp Kanye West!!!
Andy Warhol of our time!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Fargo (1996)
Official Zhuk Rating: 8.9/10 bananas
This story is relevant because once Marge learns that Mike lied to her and attempted to manipulate her, she rethinks her assessment of the disarmingly shy and soft-spoken Jerry Lundegaard. (And you can see her thinking
Finally had a chance to see a movie i have been putting away for over ten years. Glad i never really heard anyone discuss it. Although now after seeing it that is all that i want to do - talk and learn more about it. It is best described as a 'modern Shakespearean play on film'. Hard to even call it 'modern' because it has so many similarities to Shakespeare's dramas. It should be studied in the future as we study William's plays in this age.
The music was put together to an almost perfection in all the scenes and even within few scenes. For example when the two thugs are pulled over by the state trooper and he asks them
what they have in the back seat - we are able to hear it playing right at that moment. This movie's score kept me in suspense at the right times and added such great atmosphere to it all.
Also the visual camera work was a thing of beauty during few far away still shots. It is a filmmaking device that i have never thought nor noticed before i was able to view many films at this years VIFF.
Came across few little details on which a whole essay can be written. First one being at first a very random character by the name of Mike Yaganita. This post below by "Redisca" (in Russian meaning - radish [a root vegetable]) explains it perfectly and give more ideas about the movie:
 by Redisca (Thu Oct 8 2009 21:06:06) |
The purpose of the whole Mike Yanagita subplot is to show how sociopathic and manipulative people can fool us by appealing to naive sentimentality. Mike tells Marge that he married a girl he loved, but that his wife got leukemia and eventually died after a long and awful ordeal. Americans LOOVE stories like that. The idea of a young person slowly and horribly dying from cancer, while their significant other is suffering at his or her side has an almost pornographic appeal in this society. I mean it's the bread-and-butter of the whole Chicken Soup for the Soul series. It's a Lifetime Television classic, and a perennial subject in glossy magazines. Remember -- almost every Coen bros. film delves into one aspect or another of the American popular mythology and ethos. In Blood Simple, it was the belief that illicit sex inevitably triggers a cascade of violence. In Raising Arizona, it was the obsession with having children as an absolute prerequisite to marital happiness. And in Fargo, it's the sentimentality of wholesomeness. From a purely intellectual point of view, Mike's story should immediately have made Marge suspicious precisely BECAUSE it is so cookie-cutter -- but like most Americans, she simply can't resist what she sees as an ordinary man's heroism in the face of everyday life.
This story is relevant because once Marge learns that Mike lied to her and attempted to manipulate her, she rethinks her assessment of the disarmingly shy and soft-spoken Jerry Lundegaard. (And you can see her thinking
really hard while she's eating her fast-food burger.) The goofy-looking William H. Macy was perfectly cast in Lundegaard's role, and he performed it just right. So right, in fact, that most viewers remain fooled, believing Jerry to be just a hard-working guy who tries to provide for his family, though he is not above making "an error of judgment" (as if organizing a violent kidnapping of one's wife for ransom happens by inadvertence), refusing to see Jerry for what he really is: a greedy, murderous monster so devoid of any sense of right and wrong, he is perfectly willing to steamroll over as many people as it takes -- including his own wife and son -- to get his paws on a few Benjamins. This is because we too cannot resist what the surface of Jerry's life offers us: a suburban home, a seemingly normal family, mild manners, a funny-looking cookie jar in the kitchen, the wife's picture on the
desk in his office. Marge initially falls for Jerry's soft-spoken ordinariness, but after experiencing Mike's manipulation first-hand, she'll now call on common sense and her own obvious intelligence to discover not what it is that Jerry shows the world, but whatever he is trying to hide.
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Who would have thought that Sacha Baron Cohen could be beat in his own game, but this is beyond fucking epic. Joaquin totally fucking put his balls on the line for his art and has proven that he has more balls than anyone in show business.