sneak: asylum
[mar 26 2007, 22:30]
ah, well, at least there was free ice-cream.
i just returned from... something. no, it was not as wannabe-cool as last time's alpha dog and not as frighteningly daft as dead or alive (yes, i've seen both of these movies and i still live to tell the tale) but it was close.
asylum (stellas versuchung in german) tells story of a woman in the fifties or sixties whose husband starts work at an asylum. there she meets an inmate, starts an affair, falls in love, follows him after he escapes, gets frightened because she feels he might kill her just the way he killed his former wife, returns to her husband and son, watches her son drown, ends up in the same mental institution she met the guy in, marries the new boss and ultimately drops herself off a roof.
quite dramatic you might say and you would probably be sort of right if the camera work, the soundtrack, the acting and... just about everything hadn't been that abysmal!
every scene lasted no more than about half a minute leaving neither the actors nor the audience time to get into it. characters showed inexplicable mood-swings, changes of personality (no, not just the inmates, everyone), again lots of things were happening for no apparent reason and the lines must have been taken from an old fifties movie script that's never been released for being too mind-numbingly stupid.
frighteningly, this movie starred the admirable sir ian mckellen who... well, let's say he picked the best role. which wasn't hard. and it still sucked. but perhaps he needed some money after all those teensy-weensy movie productions he's been in.
all in all, a pretty enjoyable night, although just because of the ever-so-cheery sneak crowd who had a lot of fun commenting the movie and suggesting new lines.
rumor has it, next time's going to be a funny one. i'm a little scared right now.
charon
i just returned from... something. no, it was not as wannabe-cool as last time's alpha dog and not as frighteningly daft as dead or alive (yes, i've seen both of these movies and i still live to tell the tale) but it was close.
asylum (stellas versuchung in german) tells story of a woman in the fifties or sixties whose husband starts work at an asylum. there she meets an inmate, starts an affair, falls in love, follows him after he escapes, gets frightened because she feels he might kill her just the way he killed his former wife, returns to her husband and son, watches her son drown, ends up in the same mental institution she met the guy in, marries the new boss and ultimately drops herself off a roof.
quite dramatic you might say and you would probably be sort of right if the camera work, the soundtrack, the acting and... just about everything hadn't been that abysmal!
every scene lasted no more than about half a minute leaving neither the actors nor the audience time to get into it. characters showed inexplicable mood-swings, changes of personality (no, not just the inmates, everyone), again lots of things were happening for no apparent reason and the lines must have been taken from an old fifties movie script that's never been released for being too mind-numbingly stupid.
frighteningly, this movie starred the admirable sir ian mckellen who... well, let's say he picked the best role. which wasn't hard. and it still sucked. but perhaps he needed some money after all those teensy-weensy movie productions he's been in.
all in all, a pretty enjoyable night, although just because of the ever-so-cheery sneak crowd who had a lot of fun commenting the movie and suggesting new lines.
rumor has it, next time's going to be a funny one. i'm a little scared right now.
charon