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Jyan:
Movie
Abres Les Ojos (Open Your Eyes)
After an accident, a man who was formally known for his beautiful looks and elegant lifestyle finds every turned upside down after he is horribly disfigured. He later finds himself in jail for a crime he never remembered comitting, and it haunted by strange dreams. Things become stranger and stranger, as people begin disappearing and he loses track of what is dream and what is reality. The American film Vanilla Sky was based upon it, so if you've seen that, do yourself a favor and see it how it was supposed to be done.
Series
Freaks and Geeks
Kind of self explanatory. A series that was too shortlived, even though it was pure brilliance. Revolves around a group of geeks and a group of freaks as they experience the angst or high school life. Stars Spiderman's James Franco and 40-Year-Old Virgin's Seth Rogen in some of their earliest work.
Book
Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged
This is a strange little book. A very, very strange little book. A man comes into a strange world and really strange stuff happens. Giant albino penguins, battling pocket watches, etc. It is really difficult to describe this book. For people who want to step into the world of Bizarro fiction but don't want to dig through all the violence, sex and grossness, this is the book to go with. It carries the strangess of the bizarro fiction without all the gratuitous elements.
Hairy Joe Bob:
I have just seen, twice in one week, the film Dead Man's Shoes directed by Shane Meadows.
It really is a stunning film, one of the best I have ever seen. Beautiful and touching yet dark and horrific. It's set in a bleak Derbyshite wasteland where a gang of drug dealers run their village. They are big fish in a small pond and their lives are destroyed when an old acquaintance, played by Paddy Considine, returns from the army intent on revenge for what they did to his brother 8 years previously.
Truly a masterpiece, it has elements of the western, of a slasher flick, of a supernatural horror, and of a Shakespearian tragedy. Paddy Considine is a chilling and powerful force throughout, giving off waves of pure unadulterated menace and cold anger as a man who is pushed into performing horrific acts by brotherly love. The rest of the cast is made up mostly of local actors found through workshops and local auditions but they manage to give such a sense of realism that you may dream about them and their bleak lives in this wasteland for many weeks to come.
The soundtrack is amazing - it includes Aphex Twin, Smog, Calexico, Cul de Sac and M.Ward and adds tremendous atmosphere and emotional resonance to a film already brimming with both.
Really, I cannot recommend this film highly enough. It is a disturbing and moving experience but one well worth having.
dizzy:
Master and Margarita,(written by mikhail bulgakov) one of the best modern novels ever written.
in the master and the margarita, the devil comes to contemporary moscow and causes havoc in the communist state.
Kokoro By Soseki Natsume, marvellous even a translated version is great
about the life and reclusiveness of one man, if i was to say anything else i would ruin it for you.
Will:
I highly recommend the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf. It's just this very simple narrative that takes several diferent characters from a fictional small town in the midwest and weaves their storylines together over and over again. It's not anything heavy handed, but it does have some subtle social commentary to it...it's pretty uplifting, but not in the kind of cheap-feel-good fluff way that a lot of stories can be. I'm impressed with how delicately the author treated each character in the story...
sorry, I'm starting to sound pretentious so I'll shut up now. If anyone reads this book, let me know how you liked it!
gingersnaps:
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.
Holy shit.
Not only are felafels nutriciously delicious, but the style of the movie (and book) was just what I was looking for. The story deals with the convoluted lives of a group of renters in sunny Australia. From the likes of a psycho-bitch bulimic drama queen, to a heroin addict and a borderline depressed writer. The characters in their small vignettes are intensely gripping and I recomend that you check out this quirky, and humourous romp.
and of course a quote to end this rant!
Danny: "Why is 3 o'clock in the morning always the hour of choice to put on Nick Cave, get depressed and kill yourself? What's wrong with the middle of the day when everyone's awake and ready to call an ambulance?"
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