Rain, rain, more rain..

There has been lots of it. I mean, it rained the whole yesterday, and when I woke up this morning the ground was still wet. Well, can't say they didn't warn me. Like a couple of days ago, all they seemed to talk about on the weather report was the "massive precipitation" that was about to follow. Strange, I though I heard the same weather guys talking about a high pressure sweeping in from Russia, resulting in a smaller heat-wave. Well, rain drops falling outside the window is kinda cosy when it all falls down, hrhr.. *laughing at my own artifice*

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The Prestige (2006)



This story takes place at least a century ago. Acutally, I can't find the epoch written down neither at IMDb nor in the Wikipedia article. Anyways, a long time ago.. Barden (Christian Bale) and The Great Danton (Hugh Jackman) starts as friends, almost concurrently deriving their status in the trade of magicians. So, (as often) the hunt for glory - externally triggered by a little mishap - makes our friends go seperate ways. From here on, everything will be a contest for pride and glory, with no boundaries for it's cost. The big picture was sort of messy in the beginning-middle, which is sometimes just ment to be. Near the end, everything turned obvious, and it was so(!) well made. Perhaps a bit slow someplace in the middle, but it doesn't add up so the film will lose it's gage, holding Top #250 (#88) over at IMDb.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/
http://video.movies.go.com/theprestige/

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Paranoid Park (2007)



This didn't fly so well. It's a story about this sort of reservered young skate kid Alex, who accidentely causes the death of a security guard. How did this happen? Well, it's really not so interesting why, 'cuz it's more about his state of mind while bearing this horrible experience(!), without telling it to anyone. Side characters are his girlfriend, who seems to be more into the conjugal part that him, his friend Jared, and actually not so many others. The story was kind of dull, not really interesting. After I'd seen it I thought to myself: Wow, they could have cut this ~1h20m film into like half it's lenght by just shorten down those repeated scenes which is more likely to cause a yawn than comprehending Alex state of mind while working on his issue. So now I read that director Gus Van Sant found his actors over MySpace. Heh. Beware.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0842929/
http://www.paranoidpark.co.uk/