Nothing doing.
Although he has been particularly active today (albeit whilst with his head stuck in my pelvic bones) to make up for two days of slightly edgy "Er... are you ok in there?" type noises.
Still clearing up like demons. did a whole load of good stuff today including seeing my friend zelda and her lovely ball of energy, Ella, who could teach Nora a thing or two about how to fall over and not be that bothered about it. She was bopping around all over the place, bumping in to everything going and tripping like it was a desirable attribute. I never worried about her apart from when she nearly got caught in some hoover flex. That was our fault. being in clear up mode makes a place slightly less childproof.
She's an absolutely lovely kid.
Meanwhile last night we celebrated the fact that dinner was ready at 7.45 by watching a DVD. "Requiem for a Dream" which you know, does live up to the portentiousness of the title but good god, it's well worth seeing, if only for the absolutely fantastic editing. Basically, it's a "don't do drugs, people... and you know, your mother's diet pills are drugs too, see?" type movie. But it's directed by that Darren Arononofsky guy (the one who did "Pi", which was similarly "Oh, I'm so bloody art house clever, me", except it was also really boring, whereas this isn't) so it has some lovely set piece camera work in but as U say, the editing, which is always an overlooked skill, is truly astoundingly good. The whole atmosphere of the movie is taut, tight and gripped by this disease of addiction - I'm not talking particularly about the zippy drug taking sequences, although they are clever - but the editing in, say, the Mother's total freak out, or the girl's descent in to prostitution (very clever direction actually - you think she's in a far more horrific position than she actually is... but then you do have the slow realisation that the situation she is in, is probably the beginning of something which will slowly get more and more horrific for her, unless she can kick the skank).
There's another excellent set piece after the gang that the two boys in the film are working for get shot up - the lad who isn't Jared Leto running down a back alley, with camera work as fast, as anxious and terrified, as worthy of the thought that these could be his last moments... what I enjoy about films like this is the point that, and I don't know why it did, but it reminded me of "28 Days Later" - the script in itself is you know... shrug.. fine. Nothing remarkable, different or amazing in it. It could have been a really boring TV movie, frankly - except for the prostitution bits. But the acting is all top notch, the direction is a bit too arch but when it works it's great and the editing keeps the whole thing tightly together.
So watch it if you can. Sorry if I gave too much away.
Posted by cait at March 16, 2006 09:56 PM