Memento

No spoilers BTW

Memento is a truly brilliant piece of cinema and I am so glad Julia helped me pick it in the library.

When I booked it out loads of people said that it was brilliant so I was exited to watch it. I thought the idea of how it was edited was fascinating; it was so cleaver and the only way to tell the story. I can’t imagine how you could pitch it. “I want to tell the story backwards”

There was a point in the film when I thought that it could go on forever, which it could have done but they do round it up so nicely. This film would definitely go into my top ten favourite films of all time with out a doubt. It was extremely refreshing to watch a new type of film that didn’t tell a story in the conventional way. It engaged you by forcing you to remember what you had just watch and really pay attention.

Don't think that this is just a serious smart film, it did have quite a lot of funny points. I laughed out loud on a number of occasions.

I wanted to put a trailer in this blog but all the trailers have massive spoilers in them, so beware if you have not watched this yet. I say yet because you should watch it soon!

If anyone knows of any other films that are told in this non linier format please tell me because I would love to see another film that is a cleaver and twisting as Memento.

Im am not off to see the Wizard.

I have to pick one of these great films to write about,The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz, Blade Runner, The Shawshank Redemption but I am sure I am missing one. The one I am missing obviouly did not make that big imprestion on me.

I have decided to talk about the Wizzard of Oz.

Over all I did not like this film. I thought the set was tacky, you could clearly see the back drop and I wanted crawl into a hole and die when the munchins came out. They look so creaping and odd. Thats probaly not PC to say but they really did creap me out. The overall journy bored me, I thought that Dorathy didn't change that much. She learened that there was no place like home but she was not running away from home because she didn't like it. It was so she could save her dog and at the end she is in the same situation she was when she started.

Scenes that make us go ooowww

I have posted this on moodle but I thought it could also count as a blog for the week.

There are points in certain movies that make that movie brilliant. They are scenes which can do a lot the the audience member.

It could be the end of the 6th sense or the usual suspects. This type of scene sums up the whole film and completely changes the meaning of the film. It's like at the end of a crime film were you find out that the butler did it and everything makes sense.

But there are scenes in films which are just beautiful and these are the important ones. Perhaps a point were a character has a revelation or two people get together. For example Marly and me. The part where Marly walks up the steps but is limping is so sad but in a way completes the journey of this dog. This small 20 second part of the movie really got to me. I felt sad for the dog but also for the family.

There is also the end of Lost in Translation when he whispers in her ear, in Braveheart when Gibson is being stretched or in Joan of Arc when she has lost all she had and is about to face her fait.

It can also be not so beautiful like in requiem for a dream when the girl "performs" for men in order to get drugs. This part of the movie makes you cringe but also feel so sorry for the girl and the situation that she is in. You feel so many emotions at once.

Agos 9

I am still not that good about analyzing films and writing blogs about them. I am working on it and I promise you that there are a couple blogs about films saved in my drafts. However It has been a while since my last blog and I know we are meant to do one a week. I hope that this counts as one.

Agos 9

We have all grown to not like that room. That is not because of the classes held in there. I really like the classes we have, just not the room. We have to look at a wall which looks like is falling apart. The paint is peeling off from it. If we have to stay in this room I think there should be some sort of wall painting on that side of the room. The tutors get the pleasure of looking at our gorgeous faces but we are stuck with the pealing paint. If we could look at a beautiful painting we would be inspired to work much harder and I am sure that are creative minds would be able to flourish easier.

The other thing that I think is wrong with the room is that i is too small. If someone could knock the wall down so that the room would be bigger that would be great. When we had a class with Ray in the chandler studio we all thought that it was better. I found it easier to work in a bigger space. But this point is more for Rays classes. I suppose it is better to be closer so you can interacted with each other when auguring about torture or some some TV show.

The best thing that could be done to this room is to get rid of all the chairs in the room and replace them with bean bags. We would only need 14. If we where all relaxed and comfy we would be able to learn better. Also we would be happier on the whole so when some of our ideas are not aloud to be made or funded we could always say well they did get us bean bags. Another good thing is that if we get into heated debate in Richards class we would be chucking bean bags at each other not chairs.

I would also like to say that I am really happy with the way we are being taught and this blog is just for something to write about but I would like bean bags.

My 48 hrs

When we where first given this task I thought I had nothing planned to watch on tv so I would not have that much to write about. I decided to pick Monday and Tuesday, not because I had forgotten until Sunday night. So here is a list of what I watched.

Monday

BBC Breakfast News
South Park
Life
The Thick of It
Malcolm in the Middle
Come dine with me
The Biggest Loser
F1
Cycling

Tuesday

BBC Breakfast News
Mock the Week
The F word
Around the World in 80 Days
The White Beauty Myth
The Xtra Factor
Family Guy
Trick or Treat

I was so shocked when I was writing down what I had watched. I had do idea that I watched so much TV.

The Programmes I watched live where the News, The F Word, Around the World, F 1, Cycling, Family Guy, Mock the Week and The White Beauty Myth but I paused it and came back to it.

All the other programmes where time shifted. Some of them I watched on BBC iplayer and others where on my Sky + box eather recored or on any time.

Quite a few of the programmes I watched was simply because they were on when I entered a room. It is a form of socialising without having to speak to someone. I don’t think that that should be the way it is. I think that people should talk to one another but we are all mesmerised by the TV.