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Abandoned
It’s official. My parents love my girlfriend more than me. Two emails to Rae this morning, none to me in a week. Sigh.
Swings & Roundabouts
Well, what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts. I may have lost that site last week (see ‘Ouch’, June 19) but another client has just called me – BYS want another site just for their harbour.
The Falls
You know it’s a good book when you’ve got 20 pages to go and you actually gasp out loud.
Finally finished The Falls last night, and it was wonderful. For those of us who love Inspector Rebus and his city of Edinburgh this makes for an interesting read. Rebus seems increasingly aware of his own mortality in this book; perhaps the years of dealing with death are finally catching up – or maybe his latest interest has opened up a chink in his armour to let them in.
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Resurrection Man now (a phrase used repeatedly through this book) to see exactly was happened to Rebus, Jean and the flat.
Amelie
Quick Review : Quaint with a capital Q
Not So Quick Review : This movie is 100% heart, the most charming two hours you could ever spend in a cinema.
The Sun (Yarraville), 2.00pm
On an otherwise dismal afternoon this was more than a ray of sunshine, it was a full on summers afternoon.
The story can be described so simply : a waitress falls for a mystery man, but will they ever find each other let alone love? But that is not important for this is not a movie about story. It’s a movie about emotions and feelings; it’s a movie that celebrates the human spirit like none you have seen before. The magic that Audrey Tautou brings to the title suggest she was born just for this part.
Don’t miss this film, you will truly feel better for having seen it.
I’ve created a Monster
Oh no, I showed Phoebe the Internet. Twenty minutes on barbie.com and she was hooked. Wasn’t very happy when I told her it was time to go. Gives us one more bargaining chip I suppose.
Neighbours
Everybody needs good neighbours. Yeah right.
We have one next door – Marion (I have a long history of antagonism with neighbours called Marion, maybe more of that one day). Marion is large, loud and very very annoying. She obviously has a problem with Thomas, thinking that it is he who is pooing near her front door. Having noticed me sitting at the desk, window wide open I have heard the following comments this morning.
“Dirty dirty poo” as she sweeps something.
“Yes ‘insert name of yappy little white dog’, that’s where the dirty cat does his poo.”
Neither comment was directed directly to me or Rae, just comments loud enough to ensure we hear.
People like that annoy me so much – if she has a problem then tell me, if not, shut up. Unfortunately for her there is a cat in the front so she has to be moderately circumspect when it comes to accusations.
When I become prime-minister I will outlaw busy body loud mouth neigbours with nothing better to do than stir the pot. She has been warned….
Minority Report
Quick Review : Leave with 20 minutes to go & leave happy.
Not So Quick Review : Steven Spielberg makes great movies, if he can only stop his obsession with happy families they would be classics.
Village Sunshine, Cinema 20, E13 6.30
Minority Report, for the most part, is a wonderfully entertaining visually stunning Sci Fi thriller. The ‘unmost’ part is the last twenty or so minutes when Spielberg loses his way.
Tom Cruise plays a detective attached to the ‘Pre Crime’ unit – they arrest people before they have a chance to commit the crime. These crimes are seen in advance by a trio of ‘pre-cogs’. There is much intrigue, running, great chases and a wonderful vision of the future which would make for a fantastic film.
If you sense a however looming at the end of that sentence you are correct. The last twenty minutes abandon all that has gone before and we are treated to another Spielbergian homily on the value of family. It also features perhaps the worse case of needless exposition for many a year.
Please Steve, if I may be so bold, take the risk next time. Make us think.
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