Keeping up with the movies

[petronia]

Mad Detective [trailer]: a bleakly cynical view of the police force. Genius investigator is able to see the "inner personality" and hidden thoughts of others, giving him uncanny insights into criminal motives - i.e., is a schizophrenic who talks to thin air. ^^; The main suspect has, count'em, seven distinct dueling personalities, which makes for endless entertainment from Mr. I-Don't-Take-My-Pills' perspective if no one else's. Johnnie To, no longer content with staging multi-person gunfights in mirrored rooms and such, makes half the participants in said action scenes imaginary. For the most part it even works.

Let The Right One In [trailer]: the bittersweet love story of a bullied, isolated twelve-year-old boy and the bloodsucking girl-next-door. Set in early-eighties Sweden and told in an understated, intimate style - lots of trudging through snow and having breakfast with one's parents and gym class and daily round of existence in general, even the kind that involves ripping strangers' throats out under dark overpasses. Seriously, as a coming-of-age romance it's totally adorable. XD;; The leads have chemistry to spare. A definite recommend.

(I wrote my first and only vampire story in the second grade. It was about making friends with the weirdo new girl at school, bringing homework over to her house, then developing a mysterious bout of anemia. Maybe I was never able to come up with normal story ideas, who knows. XD;)

Comments

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Both of those movies sound hilarious.

At least you didn't write a story about Satan's daughter running away from home and adopting two lonely street children? ...I just don't even know. It didn't even strike me as weird at the time.