big fish
[nov 15 2004, 23:03]
when i went shopping on friday, right after work, i had intended to get some tea, a couple of empty dvds to try something with and get home again in time. well, there was no tea i liked by its smell (why is everything now so christmas-ish? hey, world, it's still more than a month!), i got a package of highly overpriced dvds and... well, it's horrible, i know, but when i stood in front of these huge shelves of dvds, i wondered what else i could buy. after some looking around, i found it:
i didn't buy it because it had gotten four oscar nominations. i didn't really care for ewan mcgregor (i remember star wars too well) or albert finney. i bought it because until now i loved every single one of tim burton's movies and all the soundtracks done by danny elfman and... well, just because i couldn't imagine that they'd do anything like this.
i had been really excited when i first heard about it coming to cinemas. but as usual, whenever there's something really interesting coming up, i miraculously manage to miss it (terminal, anyone?).
on friday evening, i got some hot tea and watched it.
and in my rather... well, personal rating scheme it got... hm, something at the top, probably even over the top. somewhere up there.
it's just such a... nice film. it's warm, it's cozy, it features everything, from giants to danny devito, it... it's just like a new kind of fairytale. it starts like one and it ends like one, with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. perhaps it's just because nothing has touched me like this in quite a while and i felt that i got rather... tough against anything from the outside world. i always tried to build up that stupid shell and... it's just so incredibly strange to notice that something as tiny as a movie, something as feeble as a fairytale, something as wee as an idea can break through and touch me that deep inside.
perhaps it's because i wished i had had more contact to my grandparents. perhaps it's because i would have wanted someone like edward bloom to take me on his lap as a kid and tell me stories. not necessarily good ones, important ones, with great morals or truths, just stories.
perhaps it's because i envy this amount of invention when i struggle to write one single idea down.
perhaps it's just because it's an amazingly good movie. i don't know.
charon
i didn't buy it because it had gotten four oscar nominations. i didn't really care for ewan mcgregor (i remember star wars too well) or albert finney. i bought it because until now i loved every single one of tim burton's movies and all the soundtracks done by danny elfman and... well, just because i couldn't imagine that they'd do anything like this.
i had been really excited when i first heard about it coming to cinemas. but as usual, whenever there's something really interesting coming up, i miraculously manage to miss it (terminal, anyone?).
on friday evening, i got some hot tea and watched it.
and in my rather... well, personal rating scheme it got... hm, something at the top, probably even over the top. somewhere up there.
it's just such a... nice film. it's warm, it's cozy, it features everything, from giants to danny devito, it... it's just like a new kind of fairytale. it starts like one and it ends like one, with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. perhaps it's just because nothing has touched me like this in quite a while and i felt that i got rather... tough against anything from the outside world. i always tried to build up that stupid shell and... it's just so incredibly strange to notice that something as tiny as a movie, something as feeble as a fairytale, something as wee as an idea can break through and touch me that deep inside.
perhaps it's because i wished i had had more contact to my grandparents. perhaps it's because i would have wanted someone like edward bloom to take me on his lap as a kid and tell me stories. not necessarily good ones, important ones, with great morals or truths, just stories.
perhaps it's because i envy this amount of invention when i struggle to write one single idea down.
perhaps it's just because it's an amazingly good movie. i don't know.
charon