Movies watched since Saturday

Repulsion

Really creepy Polanski thriller starring Catharine Deneuve as a woman who goes insane when her sister and her sister's boyfriend go on vacation, and she is left alone. The movie does a really good job of setting things up. Little hints are dropped. The movie's greatest accomplishment is that when men look at Deneuve and objectify her, the viewer can understand how violated she feels. It's also just full of really fucked up shit. Will never see rabbits the same way.

Clerks II

Watched this on youtube somewhere around one in the morning. Much better than I expected. It does seem a bit odd that a big part of the main character's troubles is that he's caught between two attractive women. (Lookithim!) But at the same time, one of them is played by the wife of Kevin Smith, so ya. It was a lot different than Clerks, though, because that one almost seemed like a New Jersey version of a Jim Jarmusch movie at times (this was pointed out to me by a friend, and I thought that it was perfect), and the plot seemed more incidental. Not a huge fan of either film, but I can;t understand why anyone would really hate them, they're very good at what they do.

La Haine

FUCKING MASTERPIECE. Three guys in the projects in France wander around after their friend is beaten until comatose by a cop. one of them finds a gun a cop lsot during riots, and vows to kill one if the friend dies. Extremely tense, and very sad. Also, very fleshed out, three dimensional characters. It's like a road trip movie pervaded with a depressing sense of aimlessness, because the characters are in constant motion, but don;t go anywhere, except on one trip to Paris, and I won;t spoil any of their misadventures there for you. See if you can figure out what that cow is, though. In lovely black and white.

Life of Brian

What can be said? The Pythons are generally hilarious. Veddy silly.

Whath tho funny about the name of my fwiend?

Clerks

Wanted to find something to fall asleep to, and I had seen this before so I wouldn't need to pay much attention to it. It's a nice laid back sort of movie, and I don't really have much to say about it that I haven't said above.

This is England

Great movie, set in England in the 80s, about a preteen whose father was killed in the Falklands. He falls in with some friendly skinheads who are nice to him after he gets made fun of in school. Then, an old friend of his new friends gets out of jail spouting racist, nationalist garbage, splitting up the group. He is joined by Shaun, who is confused and upset. As coming of age movies go, you really can't get much better. Shaun's journey of self discovery is brilliantly conveyed, with not a wrong note.