31.7.05
Memento Mori
"Con Memento no existe punto intermedio, o te gusta o no te gusta. [...] Cualquier estudiante de cine la tiene que ver. [...] Para entenderla la tenés que ver dos veces" Esa fue la invitación a ver esta película. Ojo, estoy lejos de ser estudiante de cine pero esos datos me parecieron el indicio de que Memento constituye una bisagra en el, valga la redundancia, cine. La forma en que está contada es espectacular. Escenas que se repiten casi hasta el hartazgo pero que, sin embargo, cada vez aportan una perspectiva nueva. Así, a partir de flashbacks se construye esta historia. El final está ahí, sorprende, pero no hay que hilar demasiado fino para comprenderlo. Verla una vez más puede servir para atar un par de cabos sueltos, o por ahí para poner más atención en los personajes, en hechos que pasamos por alto al estar demasiado concentrados en ver cómo iba a terminar, quién era el asesino, etc. En fin, no voy a hacer un resumen de Memento porque yo misma terminaría enredada en palabras y no tengo la inteligencia para contar una película sin que mi relato esté lleno de spoilers. Pero veanlá.
Teddy: So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.
Leonard Shelby: [Running] Okay, what am I doing? [Sees Dodd also running]
Leonard Shelby: I'm chasing this guy. [Dodd has a gun, shoots at Leonard]
Leonard Shelby: Nope. He's chasing me.
22.7.05
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
It's not
What you thought
When you first began it
You got
What you want
Now you can hardly stand it though,
By now you know It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
You're sure
There's a cure
And you have finally found it
You think
One drink
Will shrink you 'til you're underground
And living down
But it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
Prepare a list of what you need
Before you sign away the deed
'Cause it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
So just...give up.
Ah, tema de mierda, cómo me hizo llorar. Y esa escena... aunque claro después vino el comic relief (?), las ranas del cielo... nadie se esperaba esa, but it did happen.
Stanley Spector: Dad? You need to be nicer to me.
Jimmy Gator: The book says, we might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
Narrator: There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and nobody knows; and we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I really do have love to give; I just don't know where to put it.
Claudia Gator: I'll tell you everything, and you tell me everything, and maybe we can get through all the piss and shit and lies that kill other people.
19.7.05
El Ladrón De Orquídeas
Charlie Kaufman: I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcome obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn't like that, and life isn't like that, it just isn't.
Donald Kaufman: The killer, the girl, and the cop all have split-personalities. They're all the same person. Isn't that fucked up? I'm putting in a chase sequence. So the killer flees on horseback with the girl, the cop's after them on a motorcycle and it's like a battle between motors and horses, like technology vs. horse. Charlie Kaufman: And they're still all one person, right?
Charlie Kaufman: You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
Charlie Kaufman: Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more and prove myself. What if I learned Russian or something, or took up an instrument. I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that. Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's going to change that.
John Laroche: You know why I like plants? Susan Orlean: Nuh uh. John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world. Susan Orlean: Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.
Un guión inteligente, buenos actores, la cantidad justa de drama y de humor hacen de esta una película totalmente recomendable.
18.7.05
Postales
Encontré un blog con algunos comentarios un poco perturbadores (?) y otros boludos. Acá está: www.postsecret.blogspot.com
"Cause your friends are fucked up anyway... And when they come around somehow they feel up and you feel down.... Have you forgotten how to love yourself?"
17.7.05
Vanilla Sky
1. "All The Right Friends" R.E.M
2. "Everything In Its Right Place" Radiohead
3. "Vanilla Sky" Paul McCartney
4. "Solsbury Hill" Peter Gabriel
5. "I Fall Apart" Julianna Gianni
6. "Porpoise Song" The Monkees
7. "Mondo 77" Looper
8. "Have You Forgotten" Red House Painters
9. "Directions" Josh Rouse
10. "Afrika Shox" Leftfield
11. "Svenfn-G-Englar" Sigur Ros
12. "Last Goodbye" Jeff Buckley
13. "Can We Still Be Friends" Todd Rundgren
14. "Fourth Time Around" Bob Dylan
15. "Elevator Beat" Nancy Wilson
16. "Sweetness Follows" R.E.M
17. "Where Do I Begin" Chemical Brothers
No estoy muy al tanto de la tecnología y no sabría subir los temas al blog (se puede?) así que a menos que alguien me explique (cosa que dudo) olvídenlo.
Pd: Poner una foto de este bobo no es una estrategia mía para atraer más gente al blog.
15.7.05
Hay que ser realmente idiota para...
13.7.05
LIT
Charlotte: You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?
Kelly: I'm under Evelyn Waugh.
Charlotte: Evelyn Waugh was a man.
John: Why do you have to point out how stupid everyone is all the time?
Charlotte: So, what are you doing here?
Bob: Uh, a couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday. And, uh, getting paid two million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere.
Charlotte: Oh.
Bob: But the good news is, the whiskey works.
Bob: I don't want to leave.
Charlotte: So don't. Stay here with me. We'll start a jazz band.
Veanlá y si les parece mala o aburrida denle una segunda oportunidad, háganme caso. Es una película en la que la mayoría de la acción tiene lugar en la cabeza de los personajes -muy a lo Katherine Mansfield diría mi prof. de literatura(?)- y lo importante está en las relaciones que se establecen más que en los hechos o sucesos tangibles. Se trata de dos personas, que a juzgar por las apariencias, la edad, etc. son dos mundos aparte y que, sin embargo, se encuentran en la misma situación de no saber bien quiénes son. Charlotte y Bob son dos personajes totalmente entrañables y sirven de espejo el uno al otro. El hombre 'maduro' no es quien, por experiencia, le enseña a la jóven recién casada sino que ambos aprenden cosas de ellos mismos y del otro a través de esa relación que arman. Una relación totalmente platónica, pura, que la directora (Sofia Coppola) supo no reducir a lo carnal como tantos otros. Igual, los que se sientan un poco perdidos, tengan cuidado (?), porque la película hace pensar y por sobre todo, deja una sensación de vacío que duele. Bueno, perdonden mi cursilería, pero así lo sentí yo.
Ah, me olvidaba, Scarlett NO puede ser tan hermosa...
10.7.05
Reservoir Dogs [Quentin Tarantino.]
[Mr. White and Mr. Pink are washing up after the robbery went sour, trying to figure out what happened]
Mr. Pink: You kill anybody?
Mr. White: A few cops.
Mr. Pink: No real people?
Mr. White: Just cops.
Mr. Blonde: Eddie, if you don't stop talking like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like a bitch.
Mr. Brown: Mr. Brown? That sounds too much like Mr. Shit.
Mr. Pink: How about if I'm Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me, I'll be Mr. Purple.
Joe: You're not Mr. Purple. Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple. You're Mr. Pink!
Mr. White: Who cares what your name is?
Mr. Pink: Yeah that's easy for you to say, you're Mr. White, you have a cool sounding name. All right look if it's no big deal to be Mr. Pink, do you wanna trade?
Mr. Brown: O.K., let me tell you what Like a Virgin's about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue: How many dicks is that?
Mr. White: A lot.
Mr. Brown: Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape, he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, "Like a virgin."
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.
Nice Guy Eddie: The chick got tired of him beatin' her so one night she walks in the guys bedroom and super glues his dick to his belly. Ambulance came and had to cut the prick loose.
Mr. Pink: That ain't all that bad.
Nice Guy Eddie: Oh yeah? How would you feel if every time you had to take a piss you had to do a hand stand?
9.7.05
Björk
6.7.05
Para Leer En Forma Interrogativa
Has visto, verdaderamente has visto
La nieve, los astros, los pasos afelpados de la brisa...
Has tocado, de verdad has tocado
El plato, el pan, la cara de esa mujer que tanto amás...
Has vivido como un golpe en la frente,
El instante, el jadeo, la caída, la fuga...
Has sabido con cada poro de la piel, sabido
Que tus ojos, tus manos, tu sexo, tu blando corazón,
Había que tirarlos
Había que llorarlos
Había que inventarlos otra vez.
Cortázar.
4.7.05
Cliché
Esta gadorcha (perdón) se está yendo para arriba. Ya tiene un contador de visitas (wow!). Se puede decir que es un blog del primer mundo aunque tenga dos visitas cada tres días. Por algún lado leí que la mayoría de los blogs se abandonan a los dos meses. Yo no sé cuánto tiempo llevo subiendo cosas pero me parece que dejé de ser parte de la mayoría.
Trágica Comedia
"A veces creo que nada tiene sentido. En un planeta minúsculo, que corre hacia la nada desde millones de años, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, nos enfermamos, sufrimos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, mueren y otros están naciendo para volver a empezar la comedia inútil.
¿Sería eso verdaderamente? Me quedé reflexionando en esa idea de la falta de sentido. ¿Toda nuestra vida sería una serie de gritos anónimos en un desierto de astros indiferentes?" [Sabato - El Túnel]
1.7.05
Cuentos De Hadas Fracturados