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Jan. 29th, 2006 07:35 pmLast night I was watching the second part of a three part documentary called "The Romantics" about the Romantic movement in literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Writers such as William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare and Mary Shelley. It's been very interesting so far.
By the way if your interested in the Romantic poets, the official website for the series is at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/romantics/
I also saw a film, from 1998, called "Funny Games", directed by Michael Haneke. It's basically about a wealthy family, mother, father and young son, who go to their holiday home by a lake, where they are held captive and tormented by two young men. It's a fairly conventional horror film plotline but the film is anything but a conventional horror film. Despite a lack of explicit violence it's a very disturbing film and caused a large amount of walkouts on it's cinema release. The film is not meant to be enjoyable and the violence is not meant to be entertaining, in fact the film is a criticism of screen violence and the audience who watch it. Frequently in the film the two captors talk to the audience directly, almost as if the audience were complicit in their actions. It's an extremely powerful film, but so disturbing it's almost unwatchable. Which is what it's meant to be. Haneke said at the time of it's release "those who leave don't need this film, those that stay do."
Today I went over to my parent's house as usual for lunch with my parents. It was very nice and quiet afternoon. I'd brought along a Charlie Parker CD because both my mum and I like jazz and we listened to that. Dad replaced the broken lock on my front door when I came back, so, hopefully, it should work now.
By the way if your interested in the Romantic poets, the official website for the series is at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/romantics/
I also saw a film, from 1998, called "Funny Games", directed by Michael Haneke. It's basically about a wealthy family, mother, father and young son, who go to their holiday home by a lake, where they are held captive and tormented by two young men. It's a fairly conventional horror film plotline but the film is anything but a conventional horror film. Despite a lack of explicit violence it's a very disturbing film and caused a large amount of walkouts on it's cinema release. The film is not meant to be enjoyable and the violence is not meant to be entertaining, in fact the film is a criticism of screen violence and the audience who watch it. Frequently in the film the two captors talk to the audience directly, almost as if the audience were complicit in their actions. It's an extremely powerful film, but so disturbing it's almost unwatchable. Which is what it's meant to be. Haneke said at the time of it's release "those who leave don't need this film, those that stay do."
Today I went over to my parent's house as usual for lunch with my parents. It was very nice and quiet afternoon. I'd brought along a Charlie Parker CD because both my mum and I like jazz and we listened to that. Dad replaced the broken lock on my front door when I came back, so, hopefully, it should work now.
