On Friday I went to see 21 Grams. It was more arty than I had expected, with handheld camera action and grainy film quality. This doesn't bother me at all, but the overall depressiveness of the story and the characters was something I didn't cope with particularly well.
So much pain and misery in one movie! The last minute happy ending was too little too late for me. I thought the actors all did spectacularly well, and I guess in a way I'm pleased I saw it, although it didn't give me anything to think about or mull over except a feeling like I was going to be in a car accident all weekend. Maybe I'm not pleased I saw it.
After all that, we came home and watched Kiki's Delivery Service, which is a studio Ghibli film and just wonderful. Cheered me up no end.
It's about a 13 year old witch who leaves home for her independent year or training and sets up a broom-based delivery service in a seaside town.
I loved this. her cat Jiji is so cute it makes you go "what the Hell?"* Every time that cat did anything it was terribly cute and adorable and I loved it.
If you like animation, if you enjoyed Spirited Away, you should watch Kiki, it's very light and cute and just lovely.
*quote from Azumanga Daioh.
and now for the weather. I am wearing today an outfit that I would normally wear in the middle of winter. Seriously. We've got the heaters going at work, and it's supposed to be the middle of summer.
Railway lines have been closed, Wainui is closed. No-one can get in or out of Kapiti or the Hutt. Read about the storm here. Awful stuff. I feel half dead today because I was woken so many times in the night. Fingers crossed the Gale Force Southerlies die out today like they're supposed to.
Global climate change sucks.
Posted by jenni at February 16, 2004 08:30 AM