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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Meryl:
Thanks for posting that, Mika! You bring up lots of things, like the use of the color red, that remind me of our discussions of BBM. I want to see EP again, too, but I think I'll wait a few weeks to let it sink in first. 8)
Tomorrow, I'm seeing Lust Caution with Lynne, John Gallagher and maybe Jenny and Juan. Will let you know what we thought! 8)
Mikaela:
Oh, yes please! :) :)
*small gripe warning*
Just checked the premiere dates for upcoming movies here and to my chagrin discovered the following:
Rendition - February 1
Lust, Caution - February 29
I'm not there - end of February, exact date undecided
Hello, this is totally unacceptable! I think I need to move to NYC on permanent basis!
*grump*
ednbarby:
Meryl, you lucky, LUCKY girl. On several levels. Please let us know how my dear John is doing. I think about him so often and miss his presence here terribly. Can't wait to read your thoughts on the movie as well. It doesn't start here until next week...
And Mikaela, my heart goes out to you. It's been difficult enough to wait for these movies this long, let alone another few to several months. Reminds me of how the premiere of the second season of "Dexter" got postponed from last June to - TOMORROW NIGHT. Woo-hoo! (Sorry.) And how it'll be April before I get to see new episodes of "Lost." I used to be such a TV whore. But these two shows (and a couple others before them, like "Six Feet Under") have ruined it for me. They're just too damned good, and nothing else compares.
Meryl:
Oh yes indeed, I know I am lucky! It rocks to see Eastern Promises with Mikaela, then in less than a week be able to see Ang Lee's new movie with a clutch of Brokies, then the very next weekend get to see Annie Proulx at a book signing! Living in NYC is the greatest. 8)
Meryl:
Well, we saw Lust, Caution tonight, and it was really good. John Gallagher, Jenny newyearsday, Juan (JCinNYC2006) and Lynne were there. If it hadn't been for Lynne, I would have forgotten to even go! But she was in Connecticut at a wedding this weekend and made the effort to get down here to see the movie. What a Brokie! ;D
The movie is beautiful to look at, thanks to Rodrigo Prieto, and has an authentic period feel, like the better Merchant-Ivory productions. It takes place in Hong Kong and Shanghai during World War II, when the Japanese occupied parts of China. A group of idealistic young students decide to serve the cause of patriotism by targeting an infamous Japanese collaborator for assassination. Throughout the film they become more hardened and sophisticated by the experience and have some harrowing ordeals. One young girl becomes the mistress of the villainous collaborator, and it is the story of what she goes through emotionally that is the core of the film.
We noticed several things that made us think of Brokeback, particularly a couple of shots of the full moon, Ang Lee's attention to colors (the heroine wore mostly shades of blue) and an elegiac last shot that made us think of the last shot in Brokeback. As reviewers mentioned, the sex scenes were indeed explicit and powerful. Those were brave actors! :P
I do want to see this film again because it's very layered and rich, as you might expect from Ang. But I agree with Jenny, who commented "I'm certainly not going to see this one 13 times!" as we left the theater. ;D
We had a fun dinner at a Chinese place (of course!) afterwards and got caught up on each others' doings. Then Lynne and I said goodbye to Juan, Jenny and John and picked up her rental car at the parking garage nearby. She's probably arriving at her digs in Hartford about now. Thanks for a great time, Lynne! :-*
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