I have become so comfortable living this isolated life away from people.
I'm ok with email and social media but I find even talking to someone on the phone has become kind of annoying.
When I hear human voices outside the building or in the hallway I just want to shout at them to shut up.
How will I cope when I have to go back to seeing people in person?
What a perfect little film.
The kind of film I love that doesn't rely on big budgets or special effects, just people who know how to tell a story. Actors, director, writer, crew who know what they're doing. Where the story and the characters are why we're watching.
Season Four: Episode One (via HOOPLA)
What the hell happened?
This episode was just a mess.
Acting, direction, writing, camera work. All bad.
I probably won't use any of my 8 per month credits to watch the rest of the season.
I've been watching this older series from Germany. It's been pretty good, if a little dated, and I suppose getting better as the episodes go along.
Then there's an episode called "Borowski and the Crystal Sky" which seems pretty typical, sad, and then there's this ending that takes your breath away and you realize that right at that moment you're in the presence of art.
So once again I've watched three episodes of a mini-series and realized that I'm only continuing to watch out of some misguided sense of obligation. Obligation to whom?? This happens so often and I think it is not a fault in me but that most mini-series just do not have enough content to sustain them - they'd be better with fewer episodes, or often they really would work far better as a two hour movie. I'm ok with a series when each episode is a different story, and I'm ok with a series when there's a subplot running through the series but the main part of each episode has it's own story.
And why does so very much of the dialogue consist of "fuck, fucking, fucked"? It's a word that used to have impact but now it's used so much in productions that it feels like it's just used by lazy scriptwriters attempting to have impact while being too lazy to actually write.