A nice day at work...one of those pleasant existential days where things just cruised along...not really having to be ready for anything etc...somewhat different to the film The Revenant last night.
But you learn things from films...like, if a bear rips your throat out, to fix up the gaping tracheotomy, all you have to do is apply a sprinkle of gunpowder to the separated integumentary surfaces on your throat, and light it.
I'll remember that neat trick. Perfect cauterisation.
Brilliant filming, so brilliant that within 20 hours you've put the gross brutality of it aside, and there's just that stunning photography of wondrous places. or maybe we have grown so accustomed to brutality that we don't register it any more.Whatever...
But still, you take care out there in the frozen forest or at work....you never know...
Sure, it owes a lot to Castawa, but probably more to Kurosawa's film about a hunter in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century...but still, the Revenant is a good film.
Maybe we have become so 'evolved' that we can only appreciate the beauty of nature with the intercedence of gross brutality...
But in this way, in comparison, Kurosawa's film, without brutality; well, Kurosawa's real genius shows through. If I recall the name of that film, I will post it.
Things to be careful of at work after watching The Revenant:
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But you learn things from films...like, if a bear rips your throat out, to fix up the gaping tracheotomy, all you have to do is apply a sprinkle of gunpowder to the separated integumentary surfaces on your throat, and light it.
I'll remember that neat trick. Perfect cauterisation.
Brilliant filming, so brilliant that within 20 hours you've put the gross brutality of it aside, and there's just that stunning photography of wondrous places. or maybe we have grown so accustomed to brutality that we don't register it any more.Whatever...
But still, you take care out there in the frozen forest or at work....you never know...
Sure, it owes a lot to Castawa, but probably more to Kurosawa's film about a hunter in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century...but still, the Revenant is a good film.
Maybe we have become so 'evolved' that we can only appreciate the beauty of nature with the intercedence of gross brutality...
But in this way, in comparison, Kurosawa's film, without brutality; well, Kurosawa's real genius shows through. If I recall the name of that film, I will post it.
Things to be careful of at work after watching The Revenant:
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