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February 07, 2005
konnichiwa, nakagawa-san. chorizo! hai.
ok.. so i just saw the grudge. fuck! thank you; now i harbor an intense fear of japanese people, awkwardly moving female figures, houses, wrinkly glass, reflective glass, children, hair, wind chimes in reverse, bill pullman* and THAT FUCKING THROAT SOUND.
seriously, the film was not so much a story with a plot and whatnot as it was 2 hours of creepy-creepy-what's that - WHAM! - sheeeit - does-anybody-in-the-audience-know-CPR stuff. well done, too.
not to spoil, but the lethargic old lady struck me as a distinctly western archetype of a kind of negatively-defined madness. you knew she knew something others didn't. had i my copy of folie et deraison here.. what was that about madness as some sort of lost truth, or madmen as truth-tellers? is that the same in japan, where you'd expect a wholly different mythology of loony?
anyways, go see it. like any horror flick, you need to check your disbelief at the door, and it doesn't hurt (much) to not eat anything for a day before it and then run a few clicks to the theater, faint from low blood sugar sex magik levels and then see the film like i did. or just rent it when it's out in three days or whatever the cycle is nowadays.
* not because of the film, though. it's just.. crikey. brrh. did you know if you stand reeeeal still, bill pullman can't see you?
update, a few hours later: when you've seen this film and you're an idiot with a syncopated circadian rhythm and a particularly nasty case of the deadlines, it's late and you're at an office with plenty of hallways, the absolute last thing you want to hear when walking to get some coffee is someone's desk phone ring while you're walking by. jesus. even more so when you don't locate which phone it is in time so you could answer and it'd just be a wrong number or something.
Posted by matti at February 7, 2005 12:03 AM
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