среда, 27 июня 2018
вторник, 26 декабря 2017
Just saw the “Call me by your name” movie, a festival hit of the year. I was a little bit afraid that it’s gonna be too sweet and senseless, but it was just the kind of movie I needed to see at the moment. In fact it doesn’t have a real conflict, but that doesn’t make it any worse. It is considered that a movie about gay people today should have a social o political subtext, a strong idea or something like this. People start to forget that a movie sometimes doesn’t make any statement, but can be a piece of pure apolitical art, for the sake of beauty itself. And an act of love between two people is a great example of this beauty. I really enjoyed the slow motion of this story and the way it doesn’t make any great sense, cause I do believe that most things in our lives doesn’t make any sense, sense is really overrated. And I needed to see the audience that came to see this movie (which is screened like 3 or 4 times in Moscow in festival programs only). The people who came to see it today were different age and sex, couples and singles of all kinds, and in the end they applauded, and they applauded twice! Sometimes I start to forget that there are a lot of “normal” people (in my idea of “normal”), I even start to think that I am not the normal one. It is great to see the confirmation that my kind of people still exist - both on screen and on the auditorium. We all need a reminder about mutual acceptance and understanding, and this film gave me this positive feeling from the screen and from the people around me
понедельник, 18 декабря 2017
I just saw the “Victoria & Abdul” movie, and it gave me so much memories about my little trip to Isle of Wight. Half of the film takes place at the Osborne House, it was a lovely reminder about the day I visited it. Now I understand so much more about the Indian hall and all portraits on the walls. The movie is good, and Judi Dench as Queen Victoria is fantastic. I visited Isle of Wight in June, I went there for the music festival, where one of my favorite bands Arcade Fire were headliners. I think with my last year’s trip to Bilbao after them I started a tradition to see them every summer in small and strange places. On Isle of Wight I also had my best Airbnb experience so far. Neil, my host, not only gave me a room to stay, but also showed me all the interesting places on island, and his cat Buster was very communicative, the two of them never let me be lonely or bored. We spent three lovely days together, and I left the island with the feeling that I was leaving my friend. Neil is about my parent’s age, and he has two daughters about my age, who left him couple years ago to study on the main island. So I think he misses them and I reminded them for him. Now Neil and me are friends on Facebook, and we text sometimes, and on my next trip to UK this January I hope to meet him again. Just so many memories after one good movie
воскресенье, 17 декабря 2017
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I saw this tweet and laughed so, so hard. This is exactly about why I love “Capitan America: Civil War” movie. It is not a superheroes story, it is a small humane story about two friends getting in fight about another friend of one of them. They still had an epic battle, but the reason was small and absolutely personal, and I really enjoyed it. No one saved the world, they were just trying to save their friendship. I also liked the way they put accents in their relationship: no matter what, Steve still chooses Bucky (that’s my OTP. Never shipped Steve with Tony, cause I never liked him as a character, too many stupid jokes). That’s my boys
I saw this tweet and laughed so, so hard. This is exactly about why I love “Capitan America: Civil War” movie. It is not a superheroes story, it is a small humane story about two friends getting in fight about another friend of one of them. They still had an epic battle, but the reason was small and absolutely personal, and I really enjoyed it. No one saved the world, they were just trying to save their friendship. I also liked the way they put accents in their relationship: no matter what, Steve still chooses Bucky (that’s my OTP. Never shipped Steve with Tony, cause I never liked him as a character, too many stupid jokes). That’s my boys
четверг, 30 ноября 2017
Just spent an evening fool of laugh and inside jokes with my two friends from medical academy - ones who decided to move to Moscow and to start a new life here too. As usual we started to share things that inspire us and help us to get through the hardest days. Katya told me about David Bowie’s song I never paid attention to - “5:15 Angels Have Gone”. On my way home I put it on repeat and couldn’t stop listening to it. It is 15 years old, but sounds so modern jazz you couldn’t believe it was written years ago. It’s refrain feels like the boy you are in love with pushes you to the wall and kisses hard. David Bowie is still my absolutely favorite one, and still my greatest loss. I couldn’t believe that I will never see him on stage, it was my lifetime biggest dream, and since I started to work at 15 I had left of money for his concert. That was my stock to go to his concert in absolutely every place in the world. I still have this money, cause I can’t imagine a right way to spend it. For such a big fan as me it is hard to find his song I don’t know, but sometimes (like today) it happens, and this is one thing I love Bowie for: he is dead, but still amazes me.
среда, 18 октября 2017
So, I have never thought I would have a blog again, but my English teacher just gave me a task to write at least once a week, so here I am.
I do believe that things you are exited about are the only things worth to be written. So I want to write down some thoughts about the “Blade Runner 2049” movie, cause it’s kinda stuck in my head and doesn’t let me go.
I love the old “Blade Runner” movie, and I still think this story is finished and doesn’t need any sequel. As for me, the new movie is a separate story, may be it takes place in the same world, may be it doesn’t. But it is pretty much self-sufficient.
I feel deeply connected with the main character K, who can not understand what is real in his world. With all medications I have to take, sometimes it is really hard to say if I really feel sad, or just forget to take my meds; if I am excited about something, or is it my brain drowning in serotonin; if people talk nonsense, or I just do not understand them. This disconnection from a “real” life is something I feel a lot, and it makes this officer K my alter ego.
The next thing I like about this movie is it’s aesthetic. The picture we see is not pretty itself, it is more about finding some beauty in ordinary, even scary things. The things that shouldn’t be beautiful (like fields of garbage, or hundreds of the same houses, or some street advertising) are filmed like they are pieces of art. “What makes us human?” - this question is one of the main themes in this movie, and I do believe that seeing beauty in ordinary and scary things is very, very humane.
Cultural background is another thing that makes this movie special. We see kind of post apocalyptic world, but people still listen to jazz and read Nabokov, and this is so humane too (for example, no cultural background is the main reason I do not understand the “Star Wars” world, cause - where have all the poets gone? What are you fighting for?).
I also enjoy the feeling of uncertainty in this movie, a shift of the accents. In the beginning of the movie we see blade runner K as an ordinary officer. In the middle he understands and starts to believe that he is the main hero in this story, but then suddenly he understands that he is not. In the end of the movie we leave him with the feeling that he is nothing special, but from the distance we understand (even if he doesn’t), that he is still a hero in this story, the main one. I think this uncertainty about your place in life is also very humane.
There are other things that excite me in this movie, like a nontrivial love scene, or soundtrack. As you can see, this film disturbs me a lot, and the only way to calm my nerves in such situations is to read some good fan fiction, but I couldn’t find anything worth reading yet.
I do believe that things you are exited about are the only things worth to be written. So I want to write down some thoughts about the “Blade Runner 2049” movie, cause it’s kinda stuck in my head and doesn’t let me go.
I love the old “Blade Runner” movie, and I still think this story is finished and doesn’t need any sequel. As for me, the new movie is a separate story, may be it takes place in the same world, may be it doesn’t. But it is pretty much self-sufficient.
I feel deeply connected with the main character K, who can not understand what is real in his world. With all medications I have to take, sometimes it is really hard to say if I really feel sad, or just forget to take my meds; if I am excited about something, or is it my brain drowning in serotonin; if people talk nonsense, or I just do not understand them. This disconnection from a “real” life is something I feel a lot, and it makes this officer K my alter ego.
The next thing I like about this movie is it’s aesthetic. The picture we see is not pretty itself, it is more about finding some beauty in ordinary, even scary things. The things that shouldn’t be beautiful (like fields of garbage, or hundreds of the same houses, or some street advertising) are filmed like they are pieces of art. “What makes us human?” - this question is one of the main themes in this movie, and I do believe that seeing beauty in ordinary and scary things is very, very humane.
Cultural background is another thing that makes this movie special. We see kind of post apocalyptic world, but people still listen to jazz and read Nabokov, and this is so humane too (for example, no cultural background is the main reason I do not understand the “Star Wars” world, cause - where have all the poets gone? What are you fighting for?).
I also enjoy the feeling of uncertainty in this movie, a shift of the accents. In the beginning of the movie we see blade runner K as an ordinary officer. In the middle he understands and starts to believe that he is the main hero in this story, but then suddenly he understands that he is not. In the end of the movie we leave him with the feeling that he is nothing special, but from the distance we understand (even if he doesn’t), that he is still a hero in this story, the main one. I think this uncertainty about your place in life is also very humane.
There are other things that excite me in this movie, like a nontrivial love scene, or soundtrack. As you can see, this film disturbs me a lot, and the only way to calm my nerves in such situations is to read some good fan fiction, but I couldn’t find anything worth reading yet.