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watership wonderland girl Nothing overly insightful today from me. I'm just going to ramble on about the three most recent movies that I've seen. Wonderland is a quiet little film centered around a dysfunctional family in the south of London. The three daughters and their parents lead ordinary lives that felt very real to me. There was no hidden message in the film, but seeing it made me want to go there again. Europe is on my list for next year with Greece, Spain and Iceland being my top three choices right now. Maybe I need to rethink where I want to go, because between my viewings of Doctor Who episodes and this film, I think that I may need to spend some time in the country that gave birth to the United States. I was probably nine or ten years old when I first saw Watership Down and what stayed with me the most was how mean the rabbits were to one another. Usually people think of rabbits as fairly harmless, but this animated movie changes all of that for me. Tribal is the one word that comes to my mind with shifting allegiances and staking out of territory. I suspect that there is some allegorical meaning in the story that I am missing, but I've never taken the time to do any research on the book or the movie. Most if not all of the reviews that I read about the French film A Real Young Girl stressed that there was strong sexual content and having seen it, I have to say that they were correct. Parts of it made me wonder if this is what goes through the mind of all teenage girls when their hormones start to take over or is this just what the director wanted to portray. I wouldn't call it shocking, but it does have some very unorthodox scenes in it that I haven't seen anywhere else. |