The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.
Iamwhomiam wrote:Well, that settles it... Tom Hanks, our favorite American hero, after Jimmy Stewart, has announced our decade of national mourning over.
Seems to me that Hollywood wants to play with 911.
This was already true by the time of Cloverfield. Or this:
We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.
To Justice my maker from on high did incline:
I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.
JackRiddler wrote:PS - Just found an old Michelin poster, eerily appropriate because it looks like "Bibendus" and his twin are in a command car near the embers of a No-Man's Land on the Western Front.
I had to add this to my meticulously curated, decidedly "Images Only"-influenced high weirdness, cold war paranoia, indie pop, and natural beauty tumblr: Flatwoods Blonde (potentially triggering, though probably not).
sunny wrote:I allege Sandra Bullock is a dependable covert Nazi agent.
Most likely.
The Rich and the Corporate remain in their hundred-year fever visions of Bolsheviks taking their stuff - JackRiddler
I guess the one at the wheel is sober, and only the passenger is drunk... paging Hugh
"Now that the assertive, the self-aggrandising, the arrogant and the self-opinionated have allowed their obnoxious foolishness to beggar us all I see no reason in listening to their drivelling nonsense any more." Stanilic
Thanks a bunch. I had some downtime last month and went nuts.
Oddly enough, Michelin runs some sort of "travel tumblr" and "liked" the Bibendum which is just insane to me.
