In the continuing bout of Netflix induced movie-alism hit some Human Traffic crossing the road last night. A good hyper-kinetic British comedy, it was amusing to this anti-club head, and probably would have an average British clubgoer rolling (sic) in the aisles laughing. The plot was fairly weak and loose, a group of friends delve into the dabauchery of a weekend. At its heart a comedy so thats execusable, a bender romp with the most unresponsible of them. No ethical compassing to be found here. The director leaves you in never-never-land as to any moral, width, or height to the experience contained within. Lacking the redeeming dredgyness of Trainspotting, and never fully developing the characters shananigans into a cohesive line of thought, one's left with a vacancy in the brain department. Particularly, potentially poignant thematic elements, like the characters relationships, often seem to clash rather then meld with the overall feel of the picture. Its a comedy though so who gives a rats-@#@. The characters were cool and amusing, pacing was good, camera-work interesting, and it definately had its ROTFL moments. Like Jip and crew breaking out into a new British national anthem. On the bad, any Saturday night antics (would have strengthened the film a bit I think) were left out and the friendships between the crew could have been explored in more depth. Still though, I recommend it for all you ex-party-party-people/jaded ravers out there, who want a vicarious jaunt out when your stuck inside the predictable patterns of life.
So yeah movies, mirth and madness is all thats been going on. Also having some mighty surreal dreams lately...but I think that might just be psych compensating for boredom. Nothing disturbingly nightmarish or anything just odd, and sometimes fun, in an odd way. Anyway. O also if you know my crazy ex-coworker bloke Keith send some positivity his way, he appears to need it. Christmas and New Years can't get here any sooner.
posted by Brent at 12/05/2002 05:00:00 PM | permalink |
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