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sasha_featherBrideshead Revisited - movie not mini-series.
I liked the first part of this, which is about the friendship and romance between Charles (Matthew Goode) and Sebastian (Ben Whishaw). Sebastian's family lives at a palatial estate called Brideshead; the young men hang out there for a summer and drink wine, go swimming in the giant fountain, etc. The era is the time between the world wars, and the costumes are very fun.
The second half of the movie is about how Charles falls in love with Julia, Sebastian's sister. It is boring and I only half-watched this part.
The wealth displayed in this movie is unconscionable, but the movie doesn't seem to criticize here; it's a bit like "Crazy Rich Asians" in that way. Despite the characters' immense wealth and privilege, they seem to feel trapped into making certain choices, and it isn't entirely clear why; perhaps in the book this is made clear, but in the movie, the characters come off as ineffectual and filled with unnecessary angst.
Content notes: alcoholism, Catholicism, jealousy and infidelity.
The Wound - 2017
This is a South African gay film about the Xhosa initiation into manhood, which involves an adult circumcision ritual, fasting, and isolation from the wider society. It has good reviews, but it creeped me out on several levels, and I stopped watching after about 15 minutes.
The POV character is a gay man, Xolani, who has been hired to be a caretaker during this ritual. He has an ongoing tryst with another one of the caretakers, but this relationship seems very unhealthy. It seemed like the film is exploring masculinity, including the toxic variations of masculinity, which was uncomfortable.
I liked the first part of this, which is about the friendship and romance between Charles (Matthew Goode) and Sebastian (Ben Whishaw). Sebastian's family lives at a palatial estate called Brideshead; the young men hang out there for a summer and drink wine, go swimming in the giant fountain, etc. The era is the time between the world wars, and the costumes are very fun.
The second half of the movie is about how Charles falls in love with Julia, Sebastian's sister. It is boring and I only half-watched this part.
The wealth displayed in this movie is unconscionable, but the movie doesn't seem to criticize here; it's a bit like "Crazy Rich Asians" in that way. Despite the characters' immense wealth and privilege, they seem to feel trapped into making certain choices, and it isn't entirely clear why; perhaps in the book this is made clear, but in the movie, the characters come off as ineffectual and filled with unnecessary angst.
Content notes: alcoholism, Catholicism, jealousy and infidelity.
The Wound - 2017
This is a South African gay film about the Xhosa initiation into manhood, which involves an adult circumcision ritual, fasting, and isolation from the wider society. It has good reviews, but it creeped me out on several levels, and I stopped watching after about 15 minutes.
The POV character is a gay man, Xolani, who has been hired to be a caretaker during this ritual. He has an ongoing tryst with another one of the caretakers, but this relationship seems very unhealthy. It seemed like the film is exploring masculinity, including the toxic variations of masculinity, which was uncomfortable.
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Date: 2020-10-31 08:51 pm (UTC)