*$I'VE SEEN GOMORRA~!

Last night Milk now Gomorra. I had some catching up to do. The Wrestler arrives this Thursday as well as Slumdog Millionaire which will most likely win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the year as it already has won so many other awards. But Gomorra. Lots of buzz. I can see why. However, I felt it didn't flow that well and never really got into it completely. Perhaps too many characters whom you never really get to know. It just presents bits and pieces, never really takes you in completely. It's okay, but not as amazing as I've felt a lot of people find it to be. An aspect I liked is how the camera stays real close to the characters their faces. But overall it's quite predictable and I was really missing some good character involvement, you don't get to really know any of them so you don't really feel for them and I felt that to be really able to get immersed in all the stories, getting to know these characters is essential. I expected a bit more and at the same time I didn't as I never felt it would be that great, or at least I never expected it to really overwhelm me. So in a way I got exactly what I expected.
Wouldn't be suprised to see a Martin Scorsese version of this in some years, faster paced and with big name actors.

*&I'VE SEEN MILK()

Finally I saw it. I thought it was great, I loved the way it looked especially the beginning. Kind of felt that started as a showing of where Van Sant had been the last couple of years, his last couple of works, with very intersting camera angles and beautiful close-ups during James Franco and Sean Penn's intimate moments. Oh and the coloured intertitles were so My Own Private Idaho-ish! Nice to have spotted Van Sant, he always seems to make cameos like Hitchcock used to do. Diego Luna and Emile Hirsch were real fun, Josh Brolin was good too. His role slowly develops.

But where were the aliens?!

Edit: there were none. Never have been any. A while ago I took at a look at InContention.com a site which follows all the awards chatter and something they happen to do is choose the top 10 best shots of the year from films. There was a shot from Milk and I quickly looked at it. I had mistaken it for something with aliens I guess, seeing some kind of UFO i thought. But no. :)

*&I AM AN EXCELLENT STEEL HORSE+_

I went to my room today and took some new pictures, but I can't access them right now as my mum has taken the camera with her to a concert to see Common (a rapper, for all of you who don't know) together with my brother. So I'll upload those when I have them. Made a cake and a bread today, yep, real signs of summer vacation. 'Cause that's what I most of the time do to get through the summer which most of the time happens to be very boring. Both look and taste real nice. I should have made pictures as well. Maybe tomorrow. Thanks to Marion for introducing me to Rock Plaza Central. Didn't know them before, but they're GOOD and sound kind of similar to Neutral Milk Hotel which is not a bad thing at all. So whenever I'm not listening to Bon Iver I will go and listen to them, while also discovering all these other new bands she told me about and some which I discovered myself today. Apparently their album Are We Not Horses? is all about steel horses who I guess seem to have a hard time excepting they're not real horses, but horses made of steel. Hence song titles like I Am An Excellent Steel Horse and Our Hearts Will Not Rust? Pretty wack, but who cares. If singing about steel horses is what it takes to make an excellent album, then so be it! And of course they're from Canada. ;)