Various things.
Sep. 23rd, 2012 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windtearSo, apparently I am not yet dead. According to the latest book I'm reading, Death From the Skies! by Philip Plant, PhD, the universe would like to fix that for me. However, it appears to have terrible aim.
I have just gotten back from finishing watching this year's Reel Anime, the annual Australian anime film festival. Four films this year: Children Who Chase Lost Voices, the latest from Makoto Shinkai (he's the guy who did Voices of a Distant Star, the first film created and produced in its entirety by only one person; and judging by the extremely short credits on Lost Voices, he still hasn't learned how to delegate); Wolf Children, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda, the director of Summer Wars; Berserk: The God King's Egg, which is a retelling of the first arc of the TV anime; and the latest from Ghibli (though not a Miyazaki film), From Up On Poppy Hill. Lost Voices is bittersweet and I wished for a different ending; Wolf Children is an overall happy film that has a very melancholic, downer ending; Berserk ends on a 'To Be Continued' card, and Poppy Hill is interesting in that it puts two sensible, intelligent sixteen-year-olds into a soap opera situation and sits back to watch as they deal with the situation (amazingly enough) sensibly. So many opportunities for meltdowns and tantrums that they just pulled themselves together and behaved rationally through, it practically made you giggle. As the leading man sums it up, "This is just like something out of a melodrama. How absurd!" And they get a happy ending. (Finally! One of these films has a happy ending!)
We are up to four styrofoam boxes headed for St Vinnies', which now include a fishing tackle box and a CD player. Go me! I'm still keeping the melamine drinks coasters, the seven bud vases and the screwdriver set, though. (And I don't care what the parents say, those fridge magnets are gone.)
I have just gotten back from finishing watching this year's Reel Anime, the annual Australian anime film festival. Four films this year: Children Who Chase Lost Voices, the latest from Makoto Shinkai (he's the guy who did Voices of a Distant Star, the first film created and produced in its entirety by only one person; and judging by the extremely short credits on Lost Voices, he still hasn't learned how to delegate); Wolf Children, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda, the director of Summer Wars; Berserk: The God King's Egg, which is a retelling of the first arc of the TV anime; and the latest from Ghibli (though not a Miyazaki film), From Up On Poppy Hill. Lost Voices is bittersweet and I wished for a different ending; Wolf Children is an overall happy film that has a very melancholic, downer ending; Berserk ends on a 'To Be Continued' card, and Poppy Hill is interesting in that it puts two sensible, intelligent sixteen-year-olds into a soap opera situation and sits back to watch as they deal with the situation (amazingly enough) sensibly. So many opportunities for meltdowns and tantrums that they just pulled themselves together and behaved rationally through, it practically made you giggle. As the leading man sums it up, "This is just like something out of a melodrama. How absurd!" And they get a happy ending. (Finally! One of these films has a happy ending!)
We are up to four styrofoam boxes headed for St Vinnies', which now include a fishing tackle box and a CD player. Go me! I'm still keeping the melamine drinks coasters, the seven bud vases and the screwdriver set, though. (And I don't care what the parents say, those fridge magnets are gone.)
