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Anatomy of a Fall - 2023, French w/ English Subtitles

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 12 January 2024

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The reviews for this have already been written, but I'll throw in mine for good measure. A couple live together - The woman, a successful writer, German. The man, an unsuccessful writer and professor, French. They have a child. 

One day the husband has an accident - a fall from the upper window of their house. Is it an accident, though, or something more sinister? Suicide? Homicide?

And so the movie takes us on the dissection of their relationship as seen through the eyes of the courts. The relationship, complex, wounded, in parts, unsavory and uncomfortable, but - then, what relationships aren't. The performances are compelling - the Wife, (lead character), you know her by type, intellectual, distant, not overly sympathetic. And so it goes with the rest of the characters, some more sympathetic than others, but adhering to the new movie formula of having no one you can 100% root for.

For a French film they did a brilliant thing, which was ensure over half of the film is conducted in English - the German wife speaks no French, the French husband no German, and so their relationship - dialogue, transpires in English.

This ensures a wider international audience. 

Now, I've been sick and it's getting on time to find a comedy that runs under 3 hours, these foreign films, a treat for the intellect but once in a while I'd just like to laugh...

 

 

Fevered Dreams, quartz reefs in Tunisia, etc

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Dreams

Published: 11 January 2024

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A long night, fevered dreams, more selections of unrelated images; that I'm in Tunisia (and thinking "this is where they filmed Star Wars!") and I find under the sand a giant quartz reef, all quartz, deep, beneath the dunes, and digging it goes deeper and deeper and there has to be something here.... I must be living in Europe, because I'm grateful I've found this so close to home...

...or I'm finding a layer of fluorite/calcite under my house, it's fractured, shatters out easily, but what can I do with this (and to dig it up is to undermine my house...)

... or I'm with people, a party, maybe I know them, maybe I don't, emotional associations, "Auld Lang Syne"...

The night passes, I'm in sweats, fitful, restive,  tossing and turning, too hot, too cold, fever, chills. I'm up at 9:00, I could sleep all day but I'm not getting better and there are things to be done.

The dreams, all bits, yet the overtones, undertones, create a story much bigger than the images they provide.

Which brings me to consider an old theory, that dreams, ideas, they live outside ourselves, our mind is but an antennae to tap into them, but - given my fevered state it's probably not the time to be giving this too much consideration, my thinker's a bit bedeviled at the moment...

 

Covid JN.1

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Blog

Published: 11 January 2024

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And been feeling a bit under the weather lately, told myself it was the flu. Shortness of breath, thick green mucus when blowing nose, slight fever, chills, etc, so I get curious, look up the symptoms, pretty sure this is it:

Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10203470/jn1-covid-symptoms/

Today was worse, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up briefly, clubbed, and back into bed.

This - reading up on the variants expected, predicted, is going to get a lot worse, most people I know have had it - in the past couple of weeks, and - for something that's going around and laying us all low (and no immunity to this to be expected from the current Vaccines, too different) - it's getting surprisingly little press. Everyone, keep calm and carry on and DON'T MISS WORK ANYONE.

If I can stay awake long enough time to make some congee and head back to bed...