everyone I talk to says they had troubled dreams last night

[foxtongue]

Watched Tideland with Ryan and Eva last night. A strange journey following a little girl, Jeliza Rose, and her exploration of life, it left me with an unclean feeling, as if we had been witness to a curse. Do not mistake me, the film was excellent, but it worked very hard at making the audience uncomfortable. It whispered of things better left unsaid, the modern abuses of very old stories, of bad things that inevitably happen to the best of good girls and the sad hidden loves buried within the wicked witch of the west. It was very counter-intuitive, though it made perfect sense, (even through the scenes of magic realism), much like watching someone remove a cork that's fallen into a bottle by inflating a plastic bag. I found myself desperately wanting certain things to not be fact, to have them exist only in the wonderful mythical architecture of Jeliza Rose's imagination, though knowing, finally, that the true enemy, if there was one, was only the psychotic banality of life.

I'm not sure if I recommend it, only that you should not let young children see it. As a double-feature with Pan's Labyrinth, it might cause nightmares, insects crawling under skin, (the classic of the gentleman junkie, wrapped in a red stolen cloak, high on life and wetly muttering dirty stories into a gutter awash with dark fairy-tale glitz). However, everyone should have their kids watch this.

Comments

[breklor.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that video's by Pixar; it was the opening short for... um...

um... maybe Cars?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I have no idea whatsoever, except that it is utterly adorable.

[breklor.livejournal.com]

It is that. I love Pixar shorts; they're even more consistently entertaining than their movies.

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

I came close to calling tonight. Not sure why, other than I was awake.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I wsan't home until late. t was a nice eveing out, we went to the art gallery, I was fed delicous food, but I missed a call from Mexico. Would have been far too sad had I missed one from you as well. The Future is too precious to fritter away.

[givemesodapop.livejournal.com]

That movie, is utterly and amazingly adorable.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Pixar thrives on being clever.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

I've been to that place in Barcelona there. It's pretty great.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

BEEN TO??

That's the last straw, I am cutting you open in your sleep and eating your brain, DAMNED be proper science. I WANNA SEE!

[kindelingboy.livejournal.com]

In the highly unlikely event that that does work...

You know...just no... um... no.

Damn ethics.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

You just want to protect your father from my sense of culinary adventure.

[meoka2368.livejournal.com]

Add me to that list of people with the dreams thing.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Did Tideland give you nightmares?

[meoka2368.livejournal.com]

I don't get nightmares, but I do have some really really disturbing dreams.
Of course I don't remember what they all are...
I've had weird dreams for the past couple of nights.

[uminthecoil.livejournal.com]

That’s a perfect description of Tideland...it sort’a left me feeling satisfied that I wasn’t exactly satisfied...though I was happy it took it’s sweet and unsettling time in getting there.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

*nods* It didn't feel like it might end, somehow, as if the story weren't climaxing, only forever slightly building more corners to lead you through. We mentioned it while watching, how we lost track of time. It felt longer while at the same time remaining only two hours. Very strange effect.