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ifeelbetterSo me and my ukulele, Buttercup, have been making progress. I stopped playing for a bit because my little brother made fun of us over Christmas break...but I have recently come to the conclusion that Buttercup and I simply do not care if we are not proper musicians. Lots of lovely people are not proper musicians.
So have The Tennessee Waltz:
Suck on that, bro!
ALSO. Has everyone seen the short film starring Andrew Garfield? YOU MUST.
☆ I think this may be one of the best short films I've ever seen. I was totally fooled by the saccharine-sweet romance at the beginning. I almost closed the browser when it suddenly became so very fascinating. I don't know if I would call this a tragedy, a love story, or a comedy. It could be any of those and about a million other options all at the same time.
☆ Of course the most striking thing about this film is the transfer of body parts. I'm not sure what I think about it yet. The whole film has such a teen/HS rom com feel to it...and those tend to be the types of love stories that insist on unrealistic devotion, the Romeo & Juliet style blowout ending. So it's fascinating to watch that kind of devotion play out literally--like, she takes every single piece of him. But--on the other hand--that's what love is, right? It's about, to some degree, being willing to make unreasonable leaps of faith.
☆ I'm also so fascinated by the fact he worked in a library--he was already different from all the other robots he rode the bus with and lived nearby, right, before he even met the wilder set of robots and the girl. So is there a sense that he sort of picked up an imagination by osmosis from the books as he shelved them?
☆ Where are her limbs going? The first instance, the one at the concert, makes sense--it's about abuse and being ostracized. Someone literally forces that injury on her, we know how and we know why it happened. We can understand it as a recognizable form of violence against a minority group. But the other injuries? She calls herself "clumsy" at one point--sounding a lot like a battered wife, BTW--and blames herself. But we never see that happen to others.
☆ I have never been so simultaneously creeped out and moved as I was by his recounting of his "dream." I just...I don't even know what to think about that, let alone what to feel.
☆ What is UP with that ending? Is the cop car there for her--did he save her knowing she would go to jail? Or is it symbolic of the jail they're already in, the way their species is imprisoned?
It's on Youtube in three parts too. Here's the first one:
PLEASE let me know what you think of this film--I'm endlessly intrigued by it. And Andrew Garfield is, of course, brilliant in it.
So have The Tennessee Waltz:
Suck on that, bro!
ALSO. Has everyone seen the short film starring Andrew Garfield? YOU MUST.
☆ I think this may be one of the best short films I've ever seen. I was totally fooled by the saccharine-sweet romance at the beginning. I almost closed the browser when it suddenly became so very fascinating. I don't know if I would call this a tragedy, a love story, or a comedy. It could be any of those and about a million other options all at the same time.
☆ Of course the most striking thing about this film is the transfer of body parts. I'm not sure what I think about it yet. The whole film has such a teen/HS rom com feel to it...and those tend to be the types of love stories that insist on unrealistic devotion, the Romeo & Juliet style blowout ending. So it's fascinating to watch that kind of devotion play out literally--like, she takes every single piece of him. But--on the other hand--that's what love is, right? It's about, to some degree, being willing to make unreasonable leaps of faith.
☆ I'm also so fascinated by the fact he worked in a library--he was already different from all the other robots he rode the bus with and lived nearby, right, before he even met the wilder set of robots and the girl. So is there a sense that he sort of picked up an imagination by osmosis from the books as he shelved them?
☆ Where are her limbs going? The first instance, the one at the concert, makes sense--it's about abuse and being ostracized. Someone literally forces that injury on her, we know how and we know why it happened. We can understand it as a recognizable form of violence against a minority group. But the other injuries? She calls herself "clumsy" at one point--sounding a lot like a battered wife, BTW--and blames herself. But we never see that happen to others.
☆ I have never been so simultaneously creeped out and moved as I was by his recounting of his "dream." I just...I don't even know what to think about that, let alone what to feel.
☆ What is UP with that ending? Is the cop car there for her--did he save her knowing she would go to jail? Or is it symbolic of the jail they're already in, the way their species is imprisoned?
It's on Youtube in three parts too. Here's the first one:
PLEASE let me know what you think of this film--I'm endlessly intrigued by it. And Andrew Garfield is, of course, brilliant in it.
