H. Mijail's Blog

(spoilers ahead! :P) I came out of watching Moon thinking that Blade Runner, if you only thought a bit about it, covered the same ground, and in a better way. Moon is a corollary, a footnote to the world of Blade Runner. And had the same feeling of fake-ish, exercise-ish, not-really-well-thought-to-the-end-ish that for example had Gattaca: there are a number of small details that are just left there hanging. They can be just forgotten and the main story is still there; or that's what I guess that the film makers thought. But nevertheless that makes it feel non-finished, not-taken-care-of. Like someone said "c'mon, the premise is good enough, don't mess too much with the details". But no, the result isn't good enough; interesting how that detracts from the whole feeling. (I will forget about these details later, so better dump them here now: isn't it too easy to have those "filers" with the clones ready to be deployed? Is enough Gerty with t...

Resulta interesante que, sin intentarlo demasiado (el argumento es más un cuentecito que otra cosa), Wall-E acabe siendo realista (e interesante) de sobra como para olvidarse de los trocitos más simplones. E incluso se puede decir que lleva mensaje. He tenido que leer alguna crítica para darme cuenta de que Wall-E no habla en toda la película. Aunque claro, la he visto en polaco, y los trozos en que se hablaba apenas los podía seguir. Y por cierto, ahora tendré que buscar algún subtítulo para ver si entendí bien qué pasaba en algún momento clave. Me encantaron los créditos finales. Una optimista visión de un nuevo comienzo para la humanidad... con robots... a través de la historia del arte... con música de Peter Grabriel. Chapeau . Y una bonita alternativa a la nueva humanidad de "Canciones de la Lejana Tierra", de Clarke (por qué no tenían robots?? no lo había pensado antes!), o a la Tierra habitada por los inútiles golganfrinchans de Douglas Adams . Pero no nos engañemo...

Interesting how without trying too hard to be realistic (the argument is more of a little fairy tale without much pretenses) it gets realistic and interesting and funny enough to forget the most simplistic parts. And to pack some message, too. I loved the final credits. A beautiful and optimistic alternative to the new human society of Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth, or the one in Douglas Adams' Golganfrinchans-inhabited Earth . Lovely quick recount of human art history - with robots. To the sound of Peter Gabriel. The Filthy Critic nails it again. ( Wall-E is a robot, yet he has way more personality than Hollywood's other robot, Tom Cruise. I love you, man.) Oh, and he seems to think that I shouldn't see Batman. Which is what I was suspecting after seeing the ads in the cinema, anyway. The short Presto was also nice; looks like more people are looking for its connection with Portal. The carrot should have been a cake... a delicious and moist...

I never thought I would begin a blog talking about a movie, but so be it. After all, it has been a long time since a film didn't hit me like this one (maybe "Solaris", about 5 years ago?). And what the hell, I should start one way or another. And am missing a good debate. Let's see how this goes. "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it" Those who cannot remember the past, but are informed of it (not too vividly, maybe)... can accept it? Even have a 2nd chance? (I would love that branch to be explored with the same guts) "External memories": the sore fist after the punch in Memento, the attraction in ESotSM, ... (though the first is a consequence, the second a cause). Anyway, for some reason, I was (so!) thankful that the word "predestination" didn't pop up. Would have been too cheap, I guess. (I was now looking for the word "predestination" in the english subtitles now just to be sure... but no...