It was a friends Bday, she kept going on about this film '500 Days of Summer', so I bought it, had a sneaky watch before I wrapped it up. It was cute but a little bland, I fell asleep towards the end, managed to watch it through though...I love the actress who plays Summer, but I just don't get why it's anything special. Maybe I need more tension, I don't know.
In the same week I got another film through the post, something I'd seen on one of those late nights when you don't feel like sleep, I love these random times when you discover something special. Anyway, it was This Sporting Life, 1960's British New Wave, with Richard Harris. You couldn't get more polar opposite than this, that said in both these films the guys in love do get rejected.
Now that I think about it, this reminds me of a French film I saw a couple of months ago 'Dans Paris', I didn't see the ending though. There were thing's in it that I saw in my relationships and those around me family or otherwise. The younger brother who introduces the film is just like someone I know, little manipulate rat!
What it is about me that I need this tension, a certain harshness of reality, something raw...maybe I don't like being sold happiness. Bah! Maybe I'm just a misery (with a wicked sense of humour of course).
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I have to mention one of my favourite books in recent years: Philip Marsdens Spirit-Wrestlers : A Russian Journey . There's a particular...