Posting at three on a Monday morning
Mar. 15th, 2004 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaFinished the Renault novel. Now how am I supposed to get to sleep? ;_; (I only got up at 2PM, and drank quite a bit of tea. But never mind that, it's the book's fault.) I don't want to dream about it - and I've been dreaming about it quite a lot, endless cities of white and gold and pink marble, fountains and winding staircases and carved balustrades. All mixed up with Prince of Tennis. ^^;;; But at least they were happy dreams.
Before that I watched Jisatsu Circle. Good going with the happy and non-depressing, haha. I've been told it was sobering, gory, hard to watch; but pretty much everyone neglected to mention that it takes several turns for the weird. I don't think I quite got it, and not because I was watching it raw. ^^; (The subtitle file wouldn't play... Actually that in itself says something, that I pretty much feel like I understood it all. The last Japanese film I watched raw was Neko no Ongaeshi, a few months back, and I was sure of missing bits of interest here and there.) Or scratch that, I probably did grasp the moral of the story, just that I don't think it was worth all the gore and trauma one literally had to wade through to arrive there. And it fails the police-procedural aspect utterly. If nothing else it's a good lesson in why Miike Takashi's films aren't gratuitous.
And I liked the music. Isn't that sad? Same thing happened with Perfect Blue. I swear if they really manage to pull off subliminal messages of destruction via sparkly trash idoru jpop I'll be the first lemming off the cliff. *peers suspiciously at gig-plus stash of Prince of Tennis mp3s*
Before that I watched Matantei Loki Ragnarok, up to episode 17. Past the introductory period it grew both interesting and amusing, by turns (interesting is wondering what Loki's sin is, and analysing Mayura's meta-role in the story; amusing is Heimdall pretending to be Sadako. The series does parody well, of a surety).
Before that I watched Jisatsu Circle. Good going with the happy and non-depressing, haha. I've been told it was sobering, gory, hard to watch; but pretty much everyone neglected to mention that it takes several turns for the weird. I don't think I quite got it, and not because I was watching it raw. ^^; (The subtitle file wouldn't play... Actually that in itself says something, that I pretty much feel like I understood it all. The last Japanese film I watched raw was Neko no Ongaeshi, a few months back, and I was sure of missing bits of interest here and there.) Or scratch that, I probably did grasp the moral of the story, just that I don't think it was worth all the gore and trauma one literally had to wade through to arrive there. And it fails the police-procedural aspect utterly. If nothing else it's a good lesson in why Miike Takashi's films aren't gratuitous.
And I liked the music. Isn't that sad? Same thing happened with Perfect Blue. I swear if they really manage to pull off subliminal messages of destruction via sparkly trash idoru jpop I'll be the first lemming off the cliff. *peers suspiciously at gig-plus stash of Prince of Tennis mp3s*
Before that I watched Matantei Loki Ragnarok, up to episode 17. Past the introductory period it grew both interesting and amusing, by turns (interesting is wondering what Loki's sin is, and analysing Mayura's meta-role in the story; amusing is Heimdall pretending to be Sadako. The series does parody well, of a surety).
