What are you watching & why? (splain)

Prayers For The Stolen is a really great movie (not cheerful) if you understand Spanish or don’t mind subtitles. It is pretty powerful about peasants trying to get by in the mountains where a cartel is growing poppy’s. Young girls are stolen. Phenomenal acting and a terrible topic.
 
Watched a couple of movies last night that had been on my list for awhile, both starring Noomi Rapace - whom I am a bit of a fan of. I enjoyed them both.

First one was What Happened to Monday? A dystopian film that also stars Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe. Premise is that in a world where families are only allowed one child, a mother ends up with identical septuplets, dies in childbirth and her father takes the babies and raises them in secret. He names them after each day of the week and establishes routines and protocols to ensure they can live in safety and free from discovery. Fast forward to adulthood and things kind of fall apart...


Second one was Black Crab, a Swedish film in a post-apocalyptic setting - a ragtag team of soldiers are sent on a mission that involves them skating across a frozen archipelago.

 
Pàdruig said:
Watched a couple of movies last night that had been on my list for awhile, both starring Noomi Rapace - whom I am a bit of a fan of. I enjoyed them both.

First one was What Happened to Monday? A dystopian film that also stars Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe. Premise is that in a world where families are only allowed one child, a mother ends up with identical septuplets, dies in childbirth and her father takes the babies and raises them in secret. He names them after each day of the week and establishes routines and protocols to ensure they can live in safety and free from discovery. Fast forward to adulthood and things kind of fall apart...


Second one was Black Crab, a Swedish film in a post-apocalyptic setting - a ragtag team of soldiers are sent on a mission that involves them skating across a frozen archipelago.

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I liked her performance in the original Swedish "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" - which I preferred to the subsequent English version with Rooney Mara.
 
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Rewatching a few episodes. Spirited action sequences.
 
1) Suzume, at the local multiplex. Why? I enjoy good Japanese anime movies, and this one is beyond good. Really outstanding. Funny, poignant, charming, touching, great animation. I saw the version dubbed in English, rather than with English subtitles. I didn't want subtitles distracting from the animation, and besides since they are all animated characters with all voices dubbed anyway, it seems to me just as easy to dub them in English. The story is as if the ancient Greeks created a mythological story to explain the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and created a mythological hero to assure folks that it would never happen again. I give it a 9 out of 10, and I consider it a masterpiece.

Speaking of anime, during the previews they advertised that my all-time favorite anime movie, "Ponyo," will be returning for a limited enagagement in select theaters starting May 7. I took my daughter to see it as a child about 15 yeras ago, and it influenced her in so many ways until this very day. I think it is still her favorite movie. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it.


2) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, on Amazon Prime. Why? It's one of my favorite movies of this century, and I hadn't seen it in years, and now it's on Amazon Prime for free. I fell in love with the John Le Carre novel as a teeenager nearly 50 years ago (yes, I'm old). This movie does the book justice. Much as I love Ian Fleming and the Bond books and movies, Le Carre gives him a run for his money with a very different and probably much more realistic type of British spy. The all-star cast is amazing . . . Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong (a personal favorite), Benedict Cummerbund 😜, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Ciaran Hinds . . . This is NOT a movie one can really watch in background mode while cooking, surfing the web, or holding a conversation. It is subtle, and the plot is complicated. So you need to watch it as you would in a theater. Still, it is very highly recommended, and rates another 9 out of 10.
 
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