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A downloaded discovery (and he has more films that I'm not aware of and so will be on the Greenaway kick for a while) - "Nightwatching". It takes the premise that Rembrandt inserted clues that would identify a murderer in his famous Night Watch - and the entire film - par for Greenaway, reflects Rembrandt's use of darkness and light. Now reviews for this are mixed - and for the most part unkind - and Greenaway is not a director you would want to walk in on accidentally. But if you see it, knowing his previous work and style and expecting the density of ideas, the graphic sexuality, the rich, sumptuous imagery, then you probably won't be disappointed.
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Yes, I knew what I was getting into, but I'd shown the boy the original and felt obliged to take him to see the second installment. And what can you say? It's everything you'd expect.
I don't mean that in a good way.
Now because my expectations were low, very low, it would have been an easy thing to pleasantly surprise me. I mean, it's not like there isn't fodder for ideas here: there are the "lifeforms" (holodicketymorphosomethingorother...?) that spontaneously populate the world, but they're only a subplot to show how evil "Clue" (Jeff Bridges) can be. A shame, because there is potential there, as demonstrated by Conway's Game of Life. And while I like Jeff Bridges, he proved his evilness plenty well enough by consenting to come back and make this film.
And there's the idea of transcendence - Transhumanism, of a digital immortality, well, of loads of things...
None of which are touched upon even slightly here. Now it is what it is (not very good at all), so I can take it on those grounds, but - with the effects, with the countless unforseen turns technology has taken, and a decent writer - it could have been an awful lot more. For shame.
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An early Soviet animator - clips of his work available on YouTube. Delightful.
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With tongue in cheek I make the boy watch "The Secret". It's an exercise in critical thinking. I've seen it, laughed through it, but I want him to see it as well and note the many pitfalls of pop-spirituality.
Now on the very slight chance you haven't heard of it (where have you been?) it's a completely ridiculous "self help" film that promotes gross materialism through wishful thinking.