Saturday, July 31, 2010

What shall we watch?

I have noticed that it is getting difficult to decide on what to watch.
I spend so much time at our local DVD shop to rent a movie going through many movies, but nothing seems to be that much interesting to me. Some movies are so depressing, some are so lame, some are so predictable...
So, I am open for recommendations.
I really missed watching French movies for instance, any ideas?

Friday, July 16, 2010

Eclipse, It Was!

And a total eclipse it was!Darkness hovered all around which made it unbearable by the minute. It was not like I was expecting much from this third part of the Twilight Saga anyways. It never quite caught my interest. But hearing all the hype and being surrounded by some ardent fans, I basically gave in to watching this movie. & I thought why not give it a chance, it definitely would be an awesome experience to watch a vampire movie in Transylvania out of all places! The land of Vlad the Dracula ( maybe a distant cousins of the vampires). Well to me, Vampires or Draculas, what difference does it make, they're all the same... & Yes we did get to see a Romanian flag in the movie, rightly and proudly pointed by my brother :) Coming back to the movie, I think it is blatantly clear that acting is poor. I know it is supposedly this heartfelt love story between Bella and Edward, but I fail to see any spark there or the reason for the sexual tension between Bella and Werewolf boy! Nothing makes sense, even Bella's apparent confusion between vampire Edward or werewolf Jacob!! I thought she was madly in loooveee with Edward and that was the basis of the movie. Apparently noooot, coz she's all messed up in the head!! The movie is so slooowwwww, and too predictable, it leaves no room for the activation of our neurones! I have to say I don't understand why The Twilight Saga has become such a huge success, why were the cast on Oprah, why are there fan following all around the world! It just makes no sense, when u have a beau Ian Somerhalder in Vampire Diaries(verging on cheese here, but I can;t help it)! Anyways I don't think it is worth analysing in detail, coz there is not much that can be said. If I may say, I think Vlad would have been very disapponited!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Making it Visible

With Şeyda we are back in Turkey.
Quite difficult not to miss our life in Sweden.
We hope that movies will be a bit helpful.
Soooooooooo, as we used to do, I dropped by our favorite DVD shop 'Filim Hakan' which unexpectedly from a local shop, has a wide spectrum of movies.
To be honest, I dont like downloading movies; might sound a bit stupid for some though. I like spending time in the shop, going through the movies, talking to the owner, getting his opinions, and listening to mostly quite stupid comments of the other customers :) way too enjoying than waiting for the downloading status to get 100%.

Anyways, after spending 20 minutes I rented the movie 'Dark Blue Almost Black' by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo.
Great movie! The story, acting, and the pictures...So natural and so real. Loved it, but was soooo heavy for us, as in some ways very similar to what we have been experiencing in the last years. It is about the struggle of a 25-year-old boy trying to find a way out from his life which somehow he got stucked with but not like escaping I think, rather trying to get what he had aimed and worked for so that things would change into a more positive direction.

After the movie, we talked with Şeyda how cinema is powerful in making things visible. For instance, I have noticed that in general when I talk with people about how hard it is with mom's situation and all neither I am good at telling it well nor they are good at feeling it. But a movie can do that. It locks the audience to the story with visuals, narration, and the audio. As the audience you are an outsider but still very much like an insider. Sometimes it introduces you sth. new and sometimes it just makes sth you havent noticed, although you should have, visible.
May be we should try to find the movies that tells what we want to tell and make others watch that, might be easier than trying to tell it ourselves.