A favourite film a day for 365 days.
Here's one nobody ever saw, because Hammer Films didn't know what to do with it. They thought they were getting a quickie horror film about mutant kids and biker gangs. Instead they ended up with this haunting, downbeat look at abuse of power and lost innocence. A real shame it's not better known.
A favourite film a day for 365 days.
Bloody, scathing, deliriously over-the-top satire of late 80s capitalism. (And also unexpectedly touching.) If this doesn't quite make my Top 10, it's definitely in my Top 20. I love this film.
They are turning 20 and still act like 10-year-olds, from a country deeply rooted in hierarchy, respect, education, training.
It had a strong start. I gave it a good score. The last four episodes were delayed. Unfortunately, it went downhill by episode 8, and totally bottomed by the finale episode.
However, I think they painted their late teens in a very bad light, and that is so unfair.
Consider this, in my country (at least back in the 90s, my school years), by Grade 10 (16 years old), we underwent ‘Citizen Army Trainig’ (it still is a military training). We are not at war, but we have to go through that or we won't graduate high school. We didn't complain. And we perfectly understood the importance of hierarchy.
Yet, in this K-drama, kids turning 20 were complaining every episode. They were invaded by aliens, and all they cared about are their vanities and CSAT. They have to be lured with earning bonus points for their CSAT just so they'll go through it!
I am deeply sorry. Even though it is fiction, depicting high school students like that was far too unrealistic. AOUAD did not do that at all, and yet created a very good story!
Oh. I remembered another thing. I seriously can not believe their Commander, having seen how bratty the students are, did not teach and train them about the importance of hierarchy and following orders. He did not even assign hierarchial ranks, all he did was assign a ‘class president’ or an ‘assistant’ who doesn't have much authority.
It was actually a miracle that they survived for weeks after their Commander sacrificed himself.
Wait, was this show supposd to be a comedy?
Just watch AOUAD, or something else. Skip ‘Duty After School’.
When I listen to this track, I remember how Nirvana in Fire stomped on my heart, set it ablaze and scattered the ashes to the wind ... and me loving every moment of it. 😭 😭 😭
Everything about #ADreamOfSplendor is stunning. The sets, the costumes, the music, the actors...yes I am shameless enough to say that the eye candy is a big part of why I am enjoying the show.
Too few #CDramas have this standard. And I wonder why they don't bother reaching this level.
I also love Pan'er, the female lead in this one. Strong, witty, yet flawed ... She's not the typical squeaky-voiced female in a #CDrama I hate so much 😆
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
Joseph #Losey's The Damned (1962) starts out as your conventional, lurid, early counterculture affair.
An American tourist visiting #Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by King, a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous avances. They elope to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control. These are the damned.
A Story Written with Water 1965 ‘水で書かれた物語’
Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Yasunori Irikawa, Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother. #Japanese#Cinema#Japan#Movies#Drama#Nowwatching
I love the couple in this. In terms of power dynamics, they're both equally matched, and it's a very mature relationship with nary the usual "noble idiot" tropes.
Hi! What's the cutest #drama you've ever seen? Asking for me. I don't want too much stress; I want cuteness and #fluff and laughter. Food scenes are a bonus. #kdrama#anime#cdrama