i really enjoyed it. i also came to the conclusion that i must have a subconscious affinity for colin farrell movies. i've seen a good chunk of the thirty-five he's been in: ondine, SWAT, the recruit, phonebooth, scrubs (tv show), minority report, daredevil.
etc.
anyway. onto ondine: premise of the movie is that a fisherman (farrell) finds a woman in his fishing net. his daughter swears up and down that the woman, whose name we don't know (she says to call her ondine - which was a woman who showed up on the water or something), is a selke. selke: a seal who comes ashore after its lost its sealcoat. it can only return if it finds its sealcoat; but it can bury it for seven years and stay on the land and often times would fall in love with a landsman. there was mention of something to do with seven tears, but i missed that part for some reason. anyway. the little girl (annie, farrell's daughter) is in a wheel chair, but can walk. she has kidney failure. there's a nice element of supernatural to it, but i love the realism in the end. it shatters it, and yet, keeps it up. i liked it. it wasn't anything to write home about, but it was definitely enjoyable.
also, is saw source code. i have an issue with movies when i already know the outcome. and this movie had its outcome spelled out in commercials, so i don't know what i was expecting entirely. however, much like at the end of the fighter, i wanted it all to happen. i was emotionally invested. i think gyllenhaal did a good job. and i love michelle monaghan. the entire movie i kept picturing her from kiss kiss, bang bang which is a problem, of course. she's hilarious in that movie. but that's neither here nor there. there were little nuances that i enjoyed. him calling his father, the sly under-handed suggestion of creating alternate realities (or of permeating them), and i have to ask hobbit again what he said, but i think he was right about the whole loop of things. i'm happy that it ended the way it did, but if it had gone the other way, i'd be just as happy.
so there making a movie called priest soon. something or other based off an american-style-manga. i saw the preview last night. i'll see it because it has paul bettany, then again, i saw legion because bettany was in it, and look how that turned out...
i forgot i put blindside on here. i just transferred a whole bunch of cds onto my computer. there's quite a bit.
i'm tired and feeling guilty for not sticking to my schedule, set up as of yesterday. but i don't really feel too guilty. i've been looking forward to this vacation for awhile.
i had a strange dream that dane was walking me to playwriting last night. it was weird. very weird. we left a high school poetry reading where i was emcee-ing, (which i did do in high school my senior year, i think) and then we left. it was a bit of a flashback. and one of the girls from my native american lit class was there... and so we walked across in the dark and the rain (because apparently that's what it look liked mid-day). and i got lost in the school's cafeteria, and they made me spit my gum out in the middle of the hallway. i didn't even remember chewing gum. and then i broke into a building... it was weird. quite peculiar.
i'm not teddy bear
this is an interesting song. ha.
i'm going to need to get into the shower soon. and eat something. should definitely eat something.
it's weird, missing someone. even more so when the reason you miss them is fueled by confusion. and the need for clarification. but i'm too scared to ask for it, out of fear of the answer. i figure if they wanted to tell me they would've, right?
all right. going now for a bit.
huzzah!
-aleey
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