Ah, that's playing near me down at the Landmark – I think I'll check it out this week. (I wonder if it's playing in San Francisco – my friend over there would love it, she speaks Russian and totally digs horror movies!)
Yeah, good people who are hypocritical are annoying (where have we seen those before?) but that still doesn't make evil any less relentlessly bad. Nor does it make evil honest. Yeah, they might be honest about not caring about people, but evil is not any sort of protection against being a hypocrite.
I suspect it's a self-fullfilling prophecy for those who consider evil more "honest", because it's to be expected that evil will be dishonest and so there's no real disappointment. It's a letdown when "good" people are exposed as hypocritical, but a pleasant surprise when a "bad" person does something right. It's a pessimistic point of view, definitely!
That kid better not be blaming his long lost father for his choice. The Dark has been trying to suck his blood throughout the movie and the Light keeps saving him--including his father, so as far as I can see he's just decided to base his own destiny and the destiny of the world on a passing temper tantrum.
Yet that strikes me as being realistic because...so many people DO base major life decisions on heat-of-the-moment perceptions and feelings, for good, ill, or a myriad of results in between. Sometimes the rashness of the decision is regretted, or perhaps accepted as "where one's head was at during that time". Sometimes one isn't allowed the luxury of acceptance or regret.
I don't know if her natural power was that she turned into an owl and the punishment was her being turned into a stuffed owl, but her transformation back into a woman is fabulous. She just sort of explodes feathers all over the apartment and winds up naked and covered with owl schmutz.
Yes! Now THAT'S what I call metamorphosis! :D
On a slightly more serious note, shapeshifting must be an excruciatingly painful process. Think of all the bones, muscles, nerves...shrinking, growing, twisting and turning inside the skin. That's gotta hurt.
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Date: 2006-02-26 05:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, good people who are hypocritical are annoying (where have we seen those before?) but that still doesn't make evil any less relentlessly bad. Nor does it make evil honest. Yeah, they might be honest about not caring about people, but evil is not any sort of protection against being a hypocrite.
I suspect it's a self-fullfilling prophecy for those who consider evil more "honest", because it's to be expected that evil will be dishonest and so there's no real disappointment. It's a letdown when "good" people are exposed as hypocritical, but a pleasant surprise when a "bad" person does something right. It's a pessimistic point of view, definitely!
That kid better not be blaming his long lost father for his choice. The Dark has been trying to suck his blood throughout the movie and the Light keeps saving him--including his father, so as far as I can see he's just decided to base his own destiny and the destiny of the world on a passing temper tantrum.
Yet that strikes me as being realistic because...so many people DO base major life decisions on heat-of-the-moment perceptions and feelings, for good, ill, or a myriad of results in between. Sometimes the rashness of the decision is regretted, or perhaps accepted as "where one's head was at during that time". Sometimes one isn't allowed the luxury of acceptance or regret.
I don't know if her natural power was that she turned into an owl and the punishment was her being turned into a stuffed owl, but her transformation back into a woman is fabulous. She just sort of explodes feathers all over the apartment and winds up naked and covered with owl schmutz.
Yes! Now THAT'S what I call metamorphosis! :D
On a slightly more serious note, shapeshifting must be an excruciatingly painful process. Think of all the bones, muscles, nerves...shrinking, growing, twisting and turning inside the skin. That's gotta hurt.