tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78475672754532307512024-03-13T21:32:07.169+00:00BlackberryJuniper and SherbetBlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-18849856200757477882023-12-17T21:20:00.000+00:002023-12-17T21:20:26.650+00:00Small Impressions: 'Every Vow You Break', by Peter Swanson (2021)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgMUBnNnnuUctCPg7A8rOAgMZBYtQvGpCXaE1CM5aXigPoqfptqveZF2qtLZwCAFcrNWRREYNKbmrgICC1t3akBK3Vvgl5IfO625-rIfQ21S6imyrBm9QAvfmlTX0VADzOnkXEMIdF-qSWvdni-qlbjKiy3qf8Z0t5vkDZz9dQXPzsSz8C2G_RYbW_dU/s275/swanson.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="178" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgMUBnNnnuUctCPg7A8rOAgMZBYtQvGpCXaE1CM5aXigPoqfptqveZF2qtLZwCAFcrNWRREYNKbmrgICC1t3akBK3Vvgl5IfO625-rIfQ21S6imyrBm9QAvfmlTX0VADzOnkXEMIdF-qSWvdni-qlbjKiy3qf8Z0t5vkDZz9dQXPzsSz8C2G_RYbW_dU/s1600/swanson.JPG" width="178" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>This was a quick read. The strong characterisation of the heroine kept it going. A very satisfying mix of a horror film of a folk horrorish kind (a bit <i>Wicker Man</i>, a bit Ben Wheatley), and a last girl survival slasher. </p><p>SPOILERS</p><p>Tiny Summary: A woman is honeypotted on her bachelorette weekend and is later taken to a remote island on her honeymoon, where it becomes clear she's going to be punished, somehow.<br /><br />Lots of people have mentioned the way the novel 'tries to be feminist but comes off as misogynist', and I totally see how they could think that. I've been raised on horrors, mostly made by men, glorifying in the beauty, fear of and hatred for women, all mushed up together. The psychology of all that is scary and fascinating. This book didn't have 'horror', no gratuitous blood, only clear descriptions of events. In that sense it wasn't horror, it was a psychological thriller. I didn't feel it was hostile to women. I did feel it captured the sort of feelings toward women some men have; at the end it tried to contextualise them a bit (mentioning seminars, mens rights movements etc), but it wasn't forensic, just indicatory.<br /><br />I give it 5 stars because after a slightly slow beginning, it held me totally and I put off meals, family time and sleep to finish it. It was very clear and coherent, I didn't lose suspension of disbelief at any time...<i><b>except </b></i>right near the end when she escapes and the rich men don't manage to cover her up, buy off ...whoever. </p><p>Maybe it's just the world we are in, or the world the news shows us, but I feel she wouldn't have made it; money would have bought her silence by someone coming for her, her disappearence or her discrediting as a witness. I don't beleive justice will have occurred, were this a real situation. But maybe that's simply the triumph of the news...it makes us give up, give in. Not believe anything can change.<br /><br />Maybe the end is Swanson giving us hope? Maybe it's a false hope, a lulling into a false sense of security...that a lone woman could survive a set up like that? I don't know. But it was a good thriller. I liked the last line:</p><p><b><i>Beasts had come for her. And she was still alive.<br /></i></b></p><p>(Smaller version of this, on my GoodReads page.)<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-10150364421713095282023-09-15T15:06:00.002+01:002023-09-15T15:06:14.300+01:00Our Wives Under the Sea, by Julia Armfield (2022)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP48y6lpICCt9OTABVDhbRxYNseBkpVJ9fGj7M3IQk_XdAc32Uab1xrU_g0L8Cpr-u_Asa7Y-9L-kOQuCU7lrc8aV8aU0xgNngASaL23BktxkVI2M5D7QOmS_3HiS7Uxo1muyocxZMFtXNLTij9kn5U0WMYc_Cqmyq7AZ3BsNs2vfyjunK7MEPRVTAyUs/s218/oUR%20wIVES%20uNDER%20THE%20sEA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="146" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP48y6lpICCt9OTABVDhbRxYNseBkpVJ9fGj7M3IQk_XdAc32Uab1xrU_g0L8Cpr-u_Asa7Y-9L-kOQuCU7lrc8aV8aU0xgNngASaL23BktxkVI2M5D7QOmS_3HiS7Uxo1muyocxZMFtXNLTij9kn5U0WMYc_Cqmyq7AZ3BsNs2vfyjunK7MEPRVTAyUs/s1600/oUR%20wIVES%20uNDER%20THE%20sEA.JPG" width="146" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This was amazing. I didn't feel very well (long working summer exhaustion), and started randomly reading this after being taken with the title and off kilter cover art.<br /><br />I couldn't stop reading and finished a day later. It's about the deep sea, what might be there. The love between two people, two women, the little everyday things. The parents you don't understand and can't get through to but love anyway. The failure of communication in its many ways.<br /><br />The haunting of grief. How people can not be dead, but already gone. (Like when my now dead ex husband had a stroke and was forever after like a cousin of himself, definitely related but utterly not the same person as before.) Relearning a new person, and what they might need, against what you need.<br /><br />I still think that one of the roots of horror as a genre are in the horror of the (relatively) well when faced with regular caring for or being in close proximity to a chronically ill person, a person slowly changing beyond recognition to you or themselves or both. Fear of contagion, mentally and physically. Fear of permeability, of fragmentation, dissolving.<br /><br />The story and it's characters were lyrical and brisk, clear and straight. The voices of Leah and Miri were so strong, so likeable. Pieces of a world already gone when the book begins. Story of a love story over except for one last act.<br /><br />I felt the echoes of so many films in this, as I'm sure was intended. "It's going to be alright now/it'll be alright now" echoed straight from <i>Paranormal Activity</i>, near the end, when Katie's voice doubles. Many loving references to <i>Jaws</i>. Many others.<br /><br />I haven't been this engaged with a book in months. If you like your horror/ghost stories a bit literary, a bit sad, strange, about women loving each other, and incidentally learning a lot more about something you didn't know loads about before (here the sea), you will not be disappointed. Very much recommended.</p><p> ***</p><p>(This review is also up on my Goodreads, but with less words!)<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-46194784017773233622023-01-02T22:20:00.000+00:002023-01-17T17:47:08.679+00:00Idol, Burning by Rin Usami (2020 originally) - small and perfect<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_FbjV9VLydfNPhIW1B2LSRj5UAxAnl6yk02dv65gon4AoTlqattJ3EIyjZnsAe-dvT61AwTFnCt4fW2DHQyJcfsEhKIu15diWNG_cAVh36VFk80jp4kyqCqgYAydiaS___3jnWOYFILj20wV3C36gNv4kTw9b0qxswR1JGgQzh0gz_vF-9mtbkMh/s248/Idol%20Burning.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="154" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_FbjV9VLydfNPhIW1B2LSRj5UAxAnl6yk02dv65gon4AoTlqattJ3EIyjZnsAe-dvT61AwTFnCt4fW2DHQyJcfsEhKIu15diWNG_cAVh36VFk80jp4kyqCqgYAydiaS___3jnWOYFILj20wV3C36gNv4kTw9b0qxswR1JGgQzh0gz_vF-9mtbkMh/s1600/Idol%20Burning.JPG" width="154" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I don't want to say anything about the plot of this book. It's an amazing character portrait of a lonely girl and what she spends her time and mind doing. One of those books where if you looked at the character from the outside they would seem weird and make little sense. But inside the character, there's reasons for it all, coping mechanisms. The end was wonderfully ambiguous.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This was so good. Exploring things that can't be held, or quantified. The choice of what to try to hold on to and what you never could hold in the first place. The confusion of everyday life and demands. The mess. The difference in tone between a life lived and a life blogged - one so alone and not understanding, the other so casual and confident. The reasons for obsession. Its a tiny little masterpiece. </span><br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-47853733717085784872022-10-13T00:53:00.026+01:002023-01-02T22:44:35.858+00:00A Serbian Film (2010) - a review of extreme horror for Halloween 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aePEJ5I2D-Nm7cjLRVoa1qBDicR-fWlzaELpUW236ebTDDQMws3_j8aU5FbHNu4le_OP6VoZj61GawkAvacN2rawa9x0o1nDFjwEDj0HWPP7O28ceL6IPMO3O08wxj4Szlsp6b1RsgiFB_0O3YIj8K3PlC4ZnECIAuJk58SA4KPaGC3VMOCHktMm/s178/a%20serbian%20film.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="125" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aePEJ5I2D-Nm7cjLRVoa1qBDicR-fWlzaELpUW236ebTDDQMws3_j8aU5FbHNu4le_OP6VoZj61GawkAvacN2rawa9x0o1nDFjwEDj0HWPP7O28ceL6IPMO3O08wxj4Szlsp6b1RsgiFB_0O3YIj8K3PlC4ZnECIAuJk58SA4KPaGC3VMOCHktMm/w144-h205/a%20serbian%20film.JPG" width="144" /></a></div><br />MANY SPOILERS, BEWARE. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I decided to do a review of extreme horror for Halloween for my blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just randomly, out of nowhere. This is the one I chose - and knew nothing at all about it before watching, except that people always mention it when they talk about films that have gone too far. It was apparently banned in 46 countries at one point. And its not for the gore, though there is some. It's for extended scenes of extreme sexual violence. And …I saw the edited
version with 4 and a bit minutes cut out, and I can see exactly where they went
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> This has to be the most thoughtful
film I’ve ever seen about porn, porn stars and what people pay money to see. Power, who has it, with what lies and evasions and greasy money are they keeping it. Its very easy to see this extreme film as politics of the region at a time of great violence, in microcosm. Propoganda, its construction.<br />
<br />
Tiny plot bit: Milos was the hero, a retired porn star, one last job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a live action torture porn snuff film,
which he didn’t realise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he is
drugged with a sort of Viagra that kicks out your memory too, and spends the
rest of the film finding out what he did in the missing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> It gets worse and worse, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But other reviews I read had most people
feeling he had become a monster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was drugged into being a machine; he was already a bit of a performance machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t his fault, he never would have been
so violent if he wasn’t insanely drugged. The minute he realised, and saw he
couldn’t fix the [IMO] justified multiple murders he did to the film makers,
and the heartbreaking rape of his own wife and small son, he kills himself and
them. His brother was the real monster; he didn’t do it for money. He was
jealous and wanted what wasn’t his. And Vukmir, the filmmaker, a child
psychologist. He was properly mad or evil or sociopathic or all of those. And
the security guards too. They all knew what was going on and sometimes
participated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lives were very cheap in
this film, and women were beautiful holes. Especially when their teeth are all
pulled out.<br />
<br />
It’s subtle and interesting that I felt such sympathy for a porn star <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- an antihero to some of society? - who did
that horrible angry man porn face during the clips of his early films, and yet
was actually peaceful and trying his best to live a good life, with his family
in the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The need for the money
suckered him in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Money – what it makes
us do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fevered drugs or emotions, what
they make of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What people do when
they have no choice, or are fooled or high; the people who seem to be at the
edges of our world to pull you under and make you swim with their bloody minds,
till yours is drowned.<br />
<br />
This was hugely well made, shot and acted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- due to the censor edits –
didn’t drive me away, and I really can see where those 4 minutes went, and it
makes the film more watchable, those scenes being gone; what remains has some
very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> effective small sound
effects: you don’t need to see. I can think more clearly about it not having
seen the missing bits. The film said a lot about what beauty is and isn’t; what’s
real and fake; why a person can’t be an object to another; what’s valuable and
what isn’t. About transactional interactions with people – they have to be
clear for both sides, and agreed on, to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Politics and life rarely work that way. And you can’t help thinking of
war crimes when you watch this. And Yugoslavia and all that went on there during its disintegration.<br /><br />This film is a velvet shot sledgehammer, a bit
like arguing in a pub with someone very clever but drunk enough to get very
shouty and determined to win the argument by taking everything to its logical
conclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, like Harry Enfield says:
“is that what you want? Cos that’s what’ll happen!”<br />
<br />
I wouldn’t watch the uncut version, so there’s my recommend: if you want to
clearly think about this, watch the edit. And it’s not just shocking, it’s too
well acted for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s thought
provoking. </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> <b>Update</b>: And the next day, here I am thinking its similar to <i>Clockwork Orange</i>, just more overtly violent and less stylised. Also I think my brain is going to take a while to wash this one through. </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> <b>And another update:</b> it's January 2023, and this film won't leave me. I'm still worrying at it. When people do bad things while drunk or otherwise high and say they can't remember, I'll always think twice now, maybe they really can't? I always thought that was a huge copout and way of taking no responsibility for what you'd done by pretending you don't remember; but maybe some things are too horrible to sit with. <b><i>They aren't you, yet you did them. </i></b>I feel there is some overarching truth here, that I've not seen in any other horror film, despite my years of watching them. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p>
<p></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-65807553235091172482022-09-04T21:33:00.000+01:002022-09-04T21:33:05.000+01:00The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris - I'm one of the people that loved this book<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwxk7wKR0NPaG9y5epkxv9rX3qX4SHuHXo01Eod15hlpdM6jQFEHQjkO5qC0bAT-u_p1Godb455FGK3ZLLvUaxG9VVPcsgHETr-2_v5U2GqMUJZbINDpOCcZTqQUk7yWBFX6d8e5lAYOE_Nes3kuhao16StncjnYialcpnVAKk1lVQAFXXcjHd23FY/s234/the%20other%20black%20girl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="158" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwxk7wKR0NPaG9y5epkxv9rX3qX4SHuHXo01Eod15hlpdM6jQFEHQjkO5qC0bAT-u_p1Godb455FGK3ZLLvUaxG9VVPcsgHETr-2_v5U2GqMUJZbINDpOCcZTqQUk7yWBFX6d8e5lAYOE_Nes3kuhao16StncjnYialcpnVAKk1lVQAFXXcjHd23FY/s1600/the%20other%20black%20girl.JPG" width="158" /></a></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fascinating that almost the first thing I’d note
about this book I really enjoyed is that it’s written by a Black woman and yet
though it was all about being Black in the workplace – and everywhere – that I
never felt thrown out by the language used or the descriptions: as a white woman, I didn't feel my total lack of this other life experience was stopping me from understanding someone else's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was written perfectly for your average
white bookworm stealing time in Waterstones to enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
I straightaway talk about white and Black 'cos that's what the book is about. Black female experience in a mostly white workplace. Racism, micro aggressions, code-switching, self sabotage, frenemies, paranoia, science fiction, horror and comedy. I'm not going to summarise the plot, I'd just say read it. Then I'd be confused by the responses.</span><br />
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When I gave it 5 stars on Goodreads, I was shocked to see how many Black people
hated it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>REALLY hated it – the writing,
the plot, the characters: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everything</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So by thoroughly engaging white readers (the star rating was much better here) and
painting a portrait of contemporary Blackness of one woman…she lost a lot of the
Black reading – the Goodreads section at least - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>demographic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t see how, cos I thought it was brilliant, but something was
hugely off for the Black readers, and really right for most of the white
ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s a huge experiment, a
big joke, related to the actual plot of the book, on the part of the author?? Obviously
I’ve no experience as a Black woman, I’m a middle aged white one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m sure all those people who hate it have
a point and there must be inaccuracies of speech or reported experience that really grate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t see them, as me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Big memories of the books of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Stepford
Wives</i> [quietly rage enducing and savage social commentary] and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i> [paranoid
and claustrophobic, mistrust of everyone] for most of the read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just one genre falsely marketed as a
thriller, it’s several.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I Loved it. </span></p>
<p></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-6812207224427032292022-07-24T20:02:00.001+01:002022-07-24T20:02:31.744+01:00Small review of Her Dark Wings by Melinda Salisbury (2022)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISEkeL-a6U4g9KlZvnH-ThWoKr0UUy-1dg7OCacT0PxYNujMcjKpZPVyygqYfcJfTqPhkTDmOeDBpY5_I78EpTZWdcR9-pwtT6G1kcr68kdUQS447LczgCIDzMlg2LQ7JOPRpOcE09fieWFhnc08M2JroroXZON1TMCLPQEJQvMcaNGvXCqurbWKo/s345/Her%20Dark%20Wings.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISEkeL-a6U4g9KlZvnH-ThWoKr0UUy-1dg7OCacT0PxYNujMcjKpZPVyygqYfcJfTqPhkTDmOeDBpY5_I78EpTZWdcR9-pwtT6G1kcr68kdUQS447LczgCIDzMlg2LQ7JOPRpOcE09fieWFhnc08M2JroroXZON1TMCLPQEJQvMcaNGvXCqurbWKo/s320/Her%20Dark%20Wings.JPG" width="211" /></a></div><br />Modern retelling of the story of Persephone (Kore), and how she came to be in the Underworld. I won't set it up more than that. That's the bones you need.<br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This has one of the best, quietest and clear last paragraphs of a book I've read in ages. Simple and calm but powerful.<br /><br />It's often hard to read characters that change a lot over the course of a book and them to not feel too fatally different, to the point you can no longer feel with them or identify with them; it's a common fault in books I read: a protagonist will become so much better/stronger/more powerful that whilst I am happy at her growth and wherever the end leaves her, I can no longer travel with her, she's like a friend grown well apart from me. You can say you knew her well, once. This book doesn't do that. Over the course of it, Corey changes a lot, but I was with her every step, and by the end, I still knew her. That's so important in a book, that it not leave you lonely.<br /><br />Also, the blurb on the back makes it seem like a romance. It has a love interest in it, but it's mostly about friendship and manipulation. Perceptions, how we don't know people as we thought we did, either from afar or in life. It's also about generosity. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So read on for Hades, Hermes, The Furies (who play a large role and are wonderfully painted), The Boatman Charon, The Fates, and Eris the Lady of Discord and Strife (ever not what's expected). More, but they are the main mythic characters.<br /><br />Ate this, lush like the pomegranates it talks of, in a very short time between hellish busy work days in a very hot kitchen in a heatwave. Lovely rest it was. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Recommended. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(a much shorter version of this review on my Goodreads feed.)<br /></span></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-69451402187943127762022-06-09T19:36:00.001+01:002023-05-11T15:20:59.498+01:00Review of Tell Me Your Lies (2022) by Kate Ruby<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT73NRRPY3Z60UafzY7D1JrJnuCayIqrwG4Iprr7Zmpo4kr4Y9zyuvGDvBYdOWk31VE5L8-6Vi987EnIqr3bt2L2jl-dnNh06mAhFZdQeGppeLdE306QQOXMDoKXO5t5slq3UpswrcSBoBJhwFBL5UITIIHyt-1ZcnSBYP3cnr1gFNattCfpZdEnvw/s382/Tell%20Me%20Your%20Lies.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT73NRRPY3Z60UafzY7D1JrJnuCayIqrwG4Iprr7Zmpo4kr4Y9zyuvGDvBYdOWk31VE5L8-6Vi987EnIqr3bt2L2jl-dnNh06mAhFZdQeGppeLdE306QQOXMDoKXO5t5slq3UpswrcSBoBJhwFBL5UITIIHyt-1ZcnSBYP3cnr1gFNattCfpZdEnvw/s320/Tell%20Me%20Your%20Lies.JPG" width="209" /></a></div>Some SPOILERS!!!<p></p><p>I really enjoyed this - it has lots of elements I enjoy, packed together in one book: therapy and its jargon; how New Ageiness can cross into sounding like therapy but <i>not </i>being therapy; relationships between characters that are layered with broken dynamics, resentments real or imagined, and expectations galore; possible unreliable narrators; lots of immersion in the characters mindsets...and more!</p><p>One of the reviewers on the back cover said the protagonist was 'flawed' but we 'can't help rooting for' her. The oddest thing about the protagonist Rachel, is that she's so normal! Not book middle class normal - but real life 'don't know who the hell I am and lie quite a bit as a result' normal. The sort of casual lying we all do here and there for self protection, or to grease the wheels of conversation, or to bond with a stranger: faces we wear. Rachel is a more extreme example but I can see where it all comes from; and as a narrator, she's very honest about her lying, you know when she's doing it - it makes her a reliable witness. In many ways she's so wonderfully open and almost desperate for connection and a sense of worth that she lies to herself, knowingly, to keep connections even when she knows they are all wrong for her, hurting her. I sympathised with and understood her, so many elements of me in there (hence I think she's 'normal'; I think we all lie about <i>how much or often</i> we lie in social situations (see my review of <a href="http://blackberryjuniperandsherbet.blogspot.com/2022/02/quick-review-of-fake-accounts-by-lauren.html"><i>Fake Accounts</i></a> here too), so Rachel was refreshing and true.</p><p>The other two main characters are Lily and Amber. Lily is Rachel's mother and the focus of her anger and desperately thwarted love (and vice versa). All she wants is a normal relationship, yet she has to choreograph each and every meeting and moment, to try and keep things even with Lily. Lily is a powerfully scary creation: someone who is so certain of herself and her right to control her children's (whole family's really) lives, she just goes right ahead and does so, with a mixture of passive aggressive "weaponised" conversations, twisting words and feelings to suit what she wants to happen and for them to feel; and outright hostility, toward the end. It's her undoing.</p><p>Amber is the therapist Lily finds for Rachel to help with her drink and drugs problems (is there an echo of Marian Keyes' Rachel of<i> Rachel's Holiday</i> here? The way Rachel in that book thought she was living one life and its not till later we see she's living quite another more tawdry drink and drug filled one). Amber is very expensive, very exclusive, and is a wonderful mixture of confidante, best friend, Catholic confessor (- the sort we all might of wished we had while reading the Susan Howatch <i>Glittering Images</i> series long ago, a Father Darrow figure), New Age guru and cult leader. She's hypnotic, you feel yourself falling for the intensity even as we see her leading the questions and turning the conversations with Rachel exactly where she wants them to go while bolstering Rachel with all the things she wished had been said to her, all the boundaries broken she wished she could have had with 'normal' family relationships, deep and satisfying. </p><p>(Moment while I <i>ehem</i>, as I haven't experienced anything like that in real life, but people write it so often, you assume either we are daydreaming our way to the better family lives we all crave, or someone out there <u>has</u> them and we are ever increasingly whispering these tales of betterness to each other and living vicariously through them...I don't know.)</p><p>Of course, Amber is more than she seems. The other main characters in the book are mostly female (nice, I like that) - Esther, a once upon a time teenage nanny to Rachel's sister Sophie, who is also not what she seems; and Sophie herself who who is adoreable and honest and ordinary in a way that Rachel is both frustrated by and protective of. The remaining male characters of the main ensemble are Nick, Rachel and Sophie's father - a bull and a bully with swagger and money, who is nevertheless protected by his wife from life (whether he asked for that to be the case or not); and Rachel's brother Josh, in many ways a MiniMe of the father and also a bully.</p><p>It's a wonderful exploring of the roles we get assigned in families - you are the black sheep, you are the dutiful daughter, you are the long suffering mother, you are the provider father etc - and there's a scene about halfway through the book at a retreat where Amber plays with these sorts of names for her clients during a very hippyish and almost Laing-like rebirthing scene, where the clients see 'past lives'. What the past lives appear to be is metaphoric realignings with how they see the relationships with the most problematic family member in their lives: Marco (another client at the retreat) sees his inappropriate and over fun-loving father as a soldier with him in a previous life, where they were best friends, and that the soldier-friend then died, causing Marco a terrible feeling of not having looked after him, that covers his feelings toward his father in this life: a man who behaves like a naughty uncle or friend instead of a father, causing Marco to beleive he must always look after <i>him instead of the other way around - </i>leading Marco to a sort of permanent adolescence, stuck needing a father but being a caretaker. When Rachel has her experience, its anything but ecstatic and illuminating; instead it's terrifying, but tells a truth about how she perceives her mother. Note: I'm definately a hippywitchy type and I do regard past lives (it's one of my <a href="http://blackberryjuniperandsherbet.blogspot.com/2011/10/personal-notions.html">notions</a>) as possible; and yet I loved the reason for these probably very false ones. It made perfect sense, with Amber's need to control her clients and their emotion flow toward others and especially toward her; and therapeutically, it seemed to help the others (a convoluted placebo; a reframing of a narrative).</p><p>I won't spoiler where the story goes - just to say that I very much enjoyed the interplay of these characters and I could not put the book down - this was a read till 3 a.m. and sod the consequences book for me.</p><p>Lastly, it's a book about addictions and how we swap drugs and substances for behaviours (self destructive usually) and sometimes people. Sometimes an unholy mix of all of those. It all rang true - expressed psychologically and pop psychologically; I even bought in to the hippiest of New Agey talk from Amber, because I could really see how it applied to Rachel; sometimes vague and lacking meaning when you examined the sentences spoken, sometimes simple and profound, like finding something you'd lost a while ago and being happy and surpised to see it again. </p><p>I don't know if Kate Ruby's subsequent books can be as absorbing and true to its characters as this one, but I really really hope so! Do I need to say this is recommended?? :-)<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-22315225977540410472022-05-13T14:57:00.000+01:002022-05-13T14:57:19.029+01:00What I watched for Friday The 13th - 'The Sadness' (2021), a free association to a madness not that far away<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /><br />Ok. I was meaning to watch a triple bill for Friday the 13th, but this was the only one of the three I had planned that I could get hold of for today, and to be honest, it's enough all by itself: it's concentrated horror. 'Gruelling' the way people first described <i>The Evil Dead</i> [1981] as, all those years ago, and I remember it being when I first saw it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Premise: it's an infected film, not a zombie film. Taiwanese made, set in Taipei. There's a pandemic people are not taking that seriously globally, as its been going on a long while. Within a very <i>very </i>short space of time, the virus mutates to have elements of rabies in it. People are crazed if infected. This is what happens in what feels like less than one day with a focus on two main characters, boyfriend Jim and girlfriend Kat. They get seperated and try to get back to each other. There's a major third, Molly, and fourth character, Creepy Businessman on Train, but they appear later. That's the plot, slight, simple, a vehicle.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This isn't so much a review of the film, as what it made me think about while I was watching it and immediately after. Yes: I was thought provoked, my favourite kind of horror (after a bogstandard slasher, that is). So I won't be talking about the debut Canadian director (whoa dude, well done), the politics of the film (ah, I will, but not in depth), the amazing special effects team, the borrowing from the 'Crossed' comicbook saga. Or that all the actors were very good indeed. None of that, really as such. So, off we go... </span><br /><br />I haven’t seen anything so utterly
theatrically bloodsoaked since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ichi The Killer</i>
[2001]. This was…it really felt like you could see how people were nothing but
their random bad thoughts acted out: ‘if I hold your hand, if I squeezed it, how
long till your bones pop – could I pull your hand right off your wrist, or would I need a saw?’ That doesn't happen in the film, but it so <i>could </i>have and worse things do (the teenage boys and their coach scene). They
aren’t just random thoughts, they are then immediately acted on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the worse and more taboo the thought is,
the worse the action, the more you <b>have </b>to do it, to satisfy your obsession,
single-minded focus with fulfilling your every wish. That is what the infection does to you. <br />
<br />
This is a film about how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angry</i>
we all are, under the surface, all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And how sad. Hence the title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
massively nihilist – all the main characters die (that's not really spoilering you), and with the virulence and
quick onset of the violence virus, I can’t see how anyone would survive long,
in the whole world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also – there are
some places in the film where you can’t tell the difference between the crazed
Id people, and the non-infected (Subway Worker had me confused twice). The heroine Kat is shot at the end [a la <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night of the Living Dead</i> the original], but has she
just turned, or did they just shoot an immune person they could have made a vaccine from who was having a bit of a
breakdown because her boyfriend Jim wanted to slice her up…and he loves her <i>so much he would really enjoy it</i>…<br />
<br />
The infected are all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happy</i>, they are
doing whatever they want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They smile and laugh, with black depthless reflective eyes. </span>They aren’t
zombies, once they are down, they are down. They <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">talk</b>, they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">reason</b>, in a
crazy violent person way. They are lost and found at the same time. In a place
of total violence saturated madness, which is a happy place for them. They are
insane, and the film I think, is trying to tell us that we all have a person
like that inside. And, you know, they should stay there.<br />
<br />
That there’s no truth, there isn’t allowed to be anymore – there’s only
politics: the mad doctor, and the President and his army men showed that. This
film is a short route to everything you keep a lid on, and what happens if
everyone lets it out. The levels of misogyny men have; the levels of violence and fear
we all have: all that resentment and anger and prejudice and wanting revenge.
Creepy Businessman on Train – one of the main characters, a most excellent creation of
what scares me about all those things. The endless hate and woman-fearing anger he spews are almost numbing after a while. All the infected men end up like that; Creepy Businessman just has a bit more wits left about him so he lasts a bit longer than most.<br />
<br />
It Is <b>Dark</b>. And occasionally blackly funny.<br />
<br />
And for all the violence and blood it does show – there is a surfeit of gore
and brain bits and electronic saws, barbed wire, torture, rape, necrophilia, an
eye socket event [no, way worse than Fulci in it’s second act] and more – there’s
plenty that’s not shown but only implied [the second act].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course by then, you can imagine it all, as the film has helped you
along with that; and as the mad doctor says: the infected have no lack of
imagination; they just now have no impulse control whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And did he turn very late, was he turned
already or was he so cold as to already be a killer when poor Kat, the heroine,
finds him? I think the latter.<br />
<br />
Callbacks to many other films, notably Cronenberg’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rabid</i> (1976) with the tube scene; and his <i>Scanners </i>(1981) with the President scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whole film has a Romero's <i>The Crazies</i> (1973) vibe in places. I’ve been suspecting for a very long while that horror is one of the
truest things we have, as an art form, because it shows us a/the horrible truth
underneath things, and how to survive it – or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s why I watch it. But it rarely lies to
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horror is viscerally truthful. This
film tells a definite truth about how people can be when others are just objects and their suffering as lesser creatures than you is the goal. And it gave no solutions,
as I don’t think we’ve thought of any yet, for this moment in history. Things
can go very wrong, very bad, very quickly, and sometimes what you might do then
doesn’t even matter, except to you; because the wrong things are so big and so
widespread and you're so isolated you can't stop them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It's a very paranoid film. Other people are the enemy, at any time.<br />
<br />
The only thing to do is to create beauty in the face of destruction, I think.
And in the case of the universe of this film: get to somewhere blockadeable,
defensible, have a lot of weaponry and water supplies. And then…you probably
wouldn’t have to wait too long till everyone was infected and killed each other
for fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then…then…??? Then?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">No one in the film gets that far. Maybe the helicopter people at the end (<i>Dawn of the Dead</i> [1980] echoes), but I doubt they'll last either.<br />
<br />
Perhaps the ultimate message of the film is listen to the scientists – as they
were trying to say what was going wrong right at the beginning of the film and
no one was listening [‘this virus is a hoax’; 'a lockdown would harm the economy'].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Listen to the science, listen to the experts in whatever field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hear truth and actual facts when you hear them, don’t layer it
up with politics and confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s
a disaster: pandemic, climate change, and it’s going to get bad very quick –
listen to people who know about these things and take suggestions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sod
election year, the economy etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this
is in the film, I’m not pulling it out of my free associating arse, here.<br />
<br />
This film is what would happen if we all listened to the sudden flashed bad
pictures in our head, or the occasional thoughts of ‘I want to cheese grate
your face, you are SO annoying’ that I’m going to go out on a limb and say we
all get, if we’re honest. Mostly, they are so over the top as to be funny, and
they dispel tension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this film,
people think them, then <i>do </i>them and find <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>
</b>funny. Its very prescient of the darkness in parts of the world, the fear, the
dread of it coming closer, the contrast between me safe here, typing away on a sunny spring day,
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flash</i></b> – somewhere on the
other side of the world, or the next street, where someone is cowering in
terror at what someone they love or have never met is doing to them, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right now</i>.<br />
<br />
I think this film just shows us the dark that's around the corner, anywhere. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don’t hide from it, keep a damn eye on it;
and then make something good to counteract it. What else is there to do?<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-11155949800862737432022-05-11T15:41:00.001+01:002022-05-11T15:41:47.224+01:00'The Wilds' Season 2 - I am loving all the complications...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW88UeTfa1pn9VpN3Fep6zViGkMWjSH-_UUHdZK4Pzfu_7KeSgyRlSzsBYY1T6eM5ReKLLn8oTwbbRo5JVpEKRzCzAhOIvilTrdDIBAOjWCisEu7lDlCtdvIiHa3FHFu9Oqedz6V6OBjtyWaBqpXwUTC0vkmi1PmFxlgtD9GIb8Q4L5_XTGmkIzOFE/s501/The%20Wilds%20Season%202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="501" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW88UeTfa1pn9VpN3Fep6zViGkMWjSH-_UUHdZK4Pzfu_7KeSgyRlSzsBYY1T6eM5ReKLLn8oTwbbRo5JVpEKRzCzAhOIvilTrdDIBAOjWCisEu7lDlCtdvIiHa3FHFu9Oqedz6V6OBjtyWaBqpXwUTC0vkmi1PmFxlgtD9GIb8Q4L5_XTGmkIzOFE/w379-h173/The%20Wilds%20Season%202.JPG" width="379" /></a></div><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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some people hated – and there was a lot of rather privileged white angsting; the
whole thing may have been done completely differently had there been people of
different classes and backgrounds making up much more (instead of just <i>some</i>) of the mix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But nonetheless, great idea, good mindfucking
and excellent music. That was my main takeaway for the first season, that and an abiding love for Dot's character.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I only noticed a day or so ago that Season 2 was available, and then I ate it whole and now I'm sad and sorry its over.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Firstly,
the soundtrack – Cliff Martinez, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Contagion</i>
– is amazing, alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The synthiness sets a wonderful tone of disjointed consciousnesses, emotional confusion and obsessive ideas. It's a soundtrack to study to, listen to late at night. It's very single minded. And beautiful.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Second, I </span>thought I would
hate the story of the boys being added (as the control group) and only want to see the girls, but I’ve been loving
both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The differences between the way
the boys and the girls camps are turning out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The boys camp got all rapey and
abusive quite suddenly mid season, and I found the sexual assault scene very disturbing, even though
it was very minor in what was actually shown – it was the fact of the character who did
it: Seth, the seemingly nicest most reasonable teambuilding calm one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
horrified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I had totally bought it, him with his lovely curly hair and nerdy glasses making him look all harmless. Especially compared with Kiran the uberjock (who later unpacked to a quite perceptive character with an unfailing BS meter). </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And then Josh, the abused
assaulted shy and insecure kid, in a small segment of being interviewed later showing a totally
different face – seeming in control, superior, scarily cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> His entire face was almost shaped differently, his bearing and manner - it was a wonderful transformation of mere seconds (a bit like the transformation scene in <i>Gotham </i>that reveals the Joker in conversation - proper face changing to a different person, wonderful acting). </span>The sudden manipulation of the perception of
both of these characters was really well done, I was unsettled by it the rest of the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially the fact we only see Josh's other self that once in the interview scene, and back on the island he's as unsure as ever, especially once seperated from Kiran, his protector and mentor - so when does this new scary cold confident self take over? We must see more of that in season 3, I guess. The abuse scene and the later Josh interview scene were so minimally done they really freaked me out - I felt as taken in and unsure as Rafe does. In many ways Rafe is the focaliser of the season, the still point around which we see the other boys.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">All the boys were great, Ivan, Kiran and Rafe
in particular, but all. Ivan was perfect: his confidence in who he is - an out gay Black man, his unsureness when confronted sometimes, his manner, his speech, his realisation that you have to fight stereotypes and prejudice, but if you become nothing but the fight, you are lost to yourself. He is simultaneously so young, and so old.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Henry. What a character. Loved him too. Useful knowledge and a depressed outlook. He was a quiet foil to all the other male characters.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The girls had more complications but their problems
didn’t get as physical and visceral to watch as the boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have Shelby, the now ex-evangelical Christian loved up
with her lesbian friend in the girls camp; in the boys, a rapey assault about
domination, power and identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It's not as <i>Lord of the Flies</i> as it sounds either, remniscent, but subtly different: you feel for all the characters; you aren't allowed to see them as anything less than complicated. Bad actions can mean a bad person, but...if you understand it's so much harder to judge cleanly.</span> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And the
mother issues going on here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should
have been annoyed by it – blaming all these people’s problems on the mum, as
usual, like we are so utterly all powerful and therefore so utterly utterly to
blame for anything our children do…but it was played well, so I couldn’t be
annoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
I wanted to hate Seth for what he did, but I couldn’t when I saw how he blamed
himself for his mother’s leaving and how he got all obsessive and needy and chameleon-like
trying to get a base line of love and security from anyone, everyone around
him; leading to that horrible temper when it failed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i> manage to hate the main doctor, Rachel Griffith’s character for
her Medea like role in it all – trying to prove that what doesn’t kill you
makes you stronger…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> more mental
[dubious]; using her ‘children’ as tools for her vengeance and point proving to
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A feminist who wants to
create other feminists by killing all that’s soft in a person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a good character to despise. They haven't yet (the writers) managed to humanise her fully for me: I still see too much her will, not enough her frailties (blanket scene notwithstanding).<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the girls camp, the saddest thing was watching the character that reminded me most of me - Martha - because of her love for animals and her unfitness for general society, having a bit of a nervous breakdown. She has gone from loving animals and being unable to face the fact that there's not enough fruit and veg alone on the island to live on, in season 1 (the girls have an ongoing problem with preserving food that the boys sort far more quickly; though the girls camp is definitively psychologically the healthier place to be IMO) - to becoming a hunter. She's almost proud of the trapping, and seems to try and kill humanely. But then one of her traps goes wrong, and she sees the consequence to a small family of animals and their young that she has done. It tortures her and after mercy killing the young she fades out, for most of the rest of the season. It was a beleivable development, and good in that no one screamed at her about not being tougher, and instead all banded together to look after her and try to help her come back to life - despite showing 'weakness' she was valued. As they did with Rachel, mourning Nora's death the whole season (as well as the loss of her own hand). Her grief was moody and true.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It was in all, a way darker season than the first. Which is not a bad thing. It was also funny and suspenseful. And surreal (Leah having all those conversations with a hallucinatory Ben Folds).<br />
<br />
The further layer to the end of the season, screaming out for an immediate
continuation was good – I was left thinking how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lost</i>-y and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homecoming</i>-y it
was becoming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like shows about experiments
and shifting perceptions, so all the reveals made me more curious. Season 3
needs to appear yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Oh, and buy the soundtrack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">buy</b> the soundtrack.</span></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-53469958362583659982022-05-05T14:31:00.000+01:002022-05-05T14:31:04.346+01:00'The Balloon Thief' by Aneesa Marufu (2022) - small review<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQp25y-t-3NeqdsbxPQ4orcV9INjPDioFaEJMTUd4niDJJcLpn64P6vma71kHnhgduQOFjUAkSixv4td-7XVmtdrs5hIOuoNQz-owrBza9th1Po5hFTluvpdqpu4vQsVWWnJ2z-u15jLlPxSbqK7o7H2FdcqpAkXSY92hqd5YvlujyWNzfRUqZqD6r/s231/balloon%20thief1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="150" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQp25y-t-3NeqdsbxPQ4orcV9INjPDioFaEJMTUd4niDJJcLpn64P6vma71kHnhgduQOFjUAkSixv4td-7XVmtdrs5hIOuoNQz-owrBza9th1Po5hFTluvpdqpu4vQsVWWnJ2z-u15jLlPxSbqK7o7H2FdcqpAkXSY92hqd5YvlujyWNzfRUqZqD6r/w188-h290/balloon%20thief1.JPG" width="188" /></a></div><br /> I loved this. It was written very calmly, and very visually. I loved the blend of Islamic folklore – djinn and djinn possession/exorcism, with a tale of female empowerment. Issues of transgender politics and repression were also woven in. <br /><br />I felt engaged and sympathetic to the heroine, Khadija, and her friend, the fair skinned Jacob of the hari, the slave labour of her people, the dark skinned Ghadeans – known as ‘darkers’ in anger by the oppressed hari people. <br /><br />There was much about perception and prejudice here, about the need to feel self-agency and have control over your own life – and the image for it all was floating free and high in a hot air balloon. The protagonist steals several balloons over the course of the book, but by the end, has her own, symbolising her newfound freedom. It felt incomplete in that the hari people and their treatment wasn't extensively addressed or solved at the end; but then again, that made it very true to our lives: racism isn't ever resolved here either, it takes education, activism and a lot of time. I think Khadija's story showed the beginning of a civil rights movement going into its next phase, becoming more powerful, reaching more people. And yet it didn't read as a political book at all - it read as a story of one girl doing her best to navigate life and her need to choose for herself. <br /><br />It was a good story and I’d read anything else the author writes next. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2TtSNRMKXUvLr6Oo9f4LP-hS3IFy1zCzY9etVTgtJL3B5GX1r9gjZJSbvE7SeJJbSfS-en0_z3VmOi1shEigieXFF3Ybje_ZFHaQ8or-PCjBfomP-tdtu73rqXwi0iqKCCSJ13JjMymXwS5FZZJxG2TQQ88_9extf9PkP6ugT4slHsaYaD5XCvIo/s3017/noah-hill-Okauvk9iCF0-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3017" data-original-width="2413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2TtSNRMKXUvLr6Oo9f4LP-hS3IFy1zCzY9etVTgtJL3B5GX1r9gjZJSbvE7SeJJbSfS-en0_z3VmOi1shEigieXFF3Ybje_ZFHaQ8or-PCjBfomP-tdtu73rqXwi0iqKCCSJ13JjMymXwS5FZZJxG2TQQ88_9extf9PkP6ugT4slHsaYaD5XCvIo/s320/noah-hill-Okauvk9iCF0-unsplash.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="_c67r llffB"><br /></div><span class="rTNyH RZQOk">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@noahkhill?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Noah hill</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/hot-air-balloon?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>
</span><p></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-26543013616416623752022-05-05T13:33:00.003+01:002022-05-05T13:33:44.389+01:00Destroyer (2019) - layered heist film with noir elements<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Kidman is brilliant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And does that thing people always wow about,
where a beautiful actress allows herself to do a part where she’s very real,
old and haggard looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought the
most amazing bit of the transformation was still the acting: her walk – it was
as though everything hurt, all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This pained arthritic walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> She's Erin Bell, aging detective, haunted by a case involving a heist long past that she would give anything to redo and fix her part in.</span><br />
<br />
Everyone was good in this - Sebastian Stan as the other undercover cop, Chris, who loved Erin; Toby Kebbell as Silas, perceptive and ruthless; Zach Villa as Arturo, also haunted by the heist and trying to atone; Bradley Whitford as the horribly supercilious DiFranco; and Jade Pettyjohn as Shelby, Erin's daughter, in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It was a very
sad story of a heist that goes wrong with an undercover pair of cops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to Kidman’s character’s understandable
greed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two people die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She could have stopped the heist from happening by reporting it, but she doesn't, as she wants in. She is haunted by it, and the film cleverly
does a loop where you think the beginning was the beginning and the events spin
from there; but actually the beginning was the end – she kills Silas and then
dies alone in her car, having sort of apologised to her daughter and in her
mind having squared the circle a little, for what happened in bungled heist and
for wrecking her own daughter’s childhood by being unable to be a reliable mother - she hadn't had one herself either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
She’s a brilliant example of the fucked up detective trope, done really
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a character led film - more of a psychological portrait than a heist film or simple thriller, and
SO sad at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting
dying in her car, she sees a memory: her walking off, with her daughter as a
child on her back, through the snow, walking determinedly…for no reason they
were there in this messed up lost situation out in the freezing winter, but
what she remembers is being there, walking forward – protecting her child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like she tried to go back and walk out
of her life and take daughter Shelby with her. But of course, there is no
squaring the circle, she did bad things that can't be undone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Its all very dark, and just gets darker as you go along, a feeling of inevitability about her actions. The whole thing is scripted beautifully by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi (they've paired on several other films as writers, preferring to always write together; but I didn't like any of them as well as I liked this; this was understated loveliness, in scriptwriting terms). </span><br />
<br />
I think the film is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Destroyer</i>
because that’s what she thinks she is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She thinks it’s all her fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are hints of a neglected and deprived childhood, explaining her ‘hungriness’,
but they are explanation, not reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She doesn’t forgive herself for any of it - witness her never using the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also doesn't forgive Silas, for accurately seeing that part of her, back in the past, as well as shooting Chris - who belatedly tried to stop the heist, as Erin and he had agreed...While Erin, when it came to it, sat by and did nothing, resulting in his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just about what Silas did at the heist; it’s about
what he saw of herself that she can’t bear: "I know what you are". She kills Silas, then dies
herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all a bit Shakespearean
tragedy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Great to see it directed by a woman, Karyn Kusama (known mostly for <i>Jennifer's Body</i> [2009]) - incidentally married to one of the scriptwriters, Phil Hay. Well made and very watchable - a different take on the heist genre. Almost noir, in the sense that when you think about it, Erin Bell is a femme fatale - just no longer a beautiful one.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Strongly recommended if you have a spare two hours and like character portraits with depth.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kx5WDQq-RWJ8qqNp0IwjbtZ5YWbRZFQQjF4crhB2a73fe1z-TnLYk032d_F35FTfy_faft366y00_PmxjjM_ZDFA3ThvSVYuHh4Ux2l4-T_-RnQWsUl70R11vKnAn4C6do9yB7hRW5N1L9qxEQB4lCkX9GhmvTdrgnbaqRX2JoTeYIUxPgPtamMx/s497/Destroyer2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="497" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kx5WDQq-RWJ8qqNp0IwjbtZ5YWbRZFQQjF4crhB2a73fe1z-TnLYk032d_F35FTfy_faft366y00_PmxjjM_ZDFA3ThvSVYuHh4Ux2l4-T_-RnQWsUl70R11vKnAn4C6do9yB7hRW5N1L9qxEQB4lCkX9GhmvTdrgnbaqRX2JoTeYIUxPgPtamMx/s320/Destroyer2.JPG" width="320" /></a><span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> The memory of when younger, walking with Shelby through the snow storm<span> (image copyright - Ascot Elite) </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-7636107320702174722022-03-21T20:48:00.000+00:002022-03-21T20:48:08.250+00:00Review of The Girls Are All So Nice Here, by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (2021)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6Yn8RFZDC194AXt_s3AOp08ampVigY-TTrxOOYli09U17zxlSDzqWLW0HEto98nBZfeu9vZ_g9mSz4Jp55B13s_QIYRNXANBmk_jr2laRr6C0CfbI845gdOmTI71Sxaz8ROsE5OSlmentNjgLbogd-8f4vIM-W3lo-0z4-SQZoy-Ny_Y37chRBBHI=s342" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6Yn8RFZDC194AXt_s3AOp08ampVigY-TTrxOOYli09U17zxlSDzqWLW0HEto98nBZfeu9vZ_g9mSz4Jp55B13s_QIYRNXANBmk_jr2laRr6C0CfbI845gdOmTI71Sxaz8ROsE5OSlmentNjgLbogd-8f4vIM-W3lo-0z4-SQZoy-Ny_Y37chRBBHI=s320" width="217" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>SLIGHT SPOILERS!</p><p>Total page turner. Explicit and spot on about what can happen in a female friendship where one upmanship and insecurity are the drivers. When you look for approval in the wrong places, place blame in the wrong places. </p><p>It talkes place at Wesleyan College (USA), and I do love the sub genre of horrible things happening at colleges, as it encompasses thrillers, horror and fantasy, its a great niche - so much can be played with in it. This is firmly a psychological thriller with a hugely strong female lead voice. She's a very honest narrator, and the ups and downs of her emotional state and her reasonings for how and why she behaves as she does are crystal clear, we are there every step of the way.<br /></p><p>For the protagonist you find out why she is vulnerable to this behaviour, being sucked into a need to impress a cruel other girl; for the other girl, you don't find out why she is as she is. You do see what happens and why to their victim/s. Their own innocence gone, they take it from others as revenge and cynical protection of themselves. This is what happens when two damaged and very angry young women get together, and decide other women need to pay a price for their own feelings. It felt very real: the jealousy, the doubting of another's motives and emotions, assuming people are like you or assuming they have perfection when you don't...deciding what others do and don't deserve. The cruelty you are capable of.<br /></p><p>It's all very well handled, a back and forth from then to now, and then an ice cold ending. I really enjoyed this. The protagonist is NOT nice, but so understandable. And it's really well written, there's some great lines in here.</p><p>The making of predators from ordinary women, laid out. Moving through the generations.</p><p>Totally recommended!</p><p>*<br /></p><p>(A smaller version of this review is up on my Goodreads feed.)<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-36146681046333890392022-03-14T22:59:00.000+00:002022-03-14T22:59:35.647+00:00A Smidge of a Poem for the Day, most days really...<p> <br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">I wish I had something to say</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wish I had words for this day</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But my voice is raw</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yours matters more</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I’ll sit here quiet, out of the way.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">©Wendy Harding, March 2022</p>
BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-5547920901317682982022-03-01T22:27:00.002+00:002022-03-01T22:27:58.678+00:00Psychological and other Horrors I Watched Last Year, Part 2<p style="text-align: left;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT7JC4vXJMBn4Rp06fSnpgdb_w1CXKQOYvk4pgpZTPpocF3TMaNPSO7StHNDJ1xYby-HpQE9Bwzcn8dN_xzm6EYxfL1PGkMzK-NqT7EAry_oOKluEaDYi8qcuCGuLgGIuQt3yf3v4k5d-k7VFCkZqXAF5ltrC78oGkmrDsYjJRnSuK1I50VGGuBxKS=s3504" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2336" data-original-width="3504" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT7JC4vXJMBn4Rp06fSnpgdb_w1CXKQOYvk4pgpZTPpocF3TMaNPSO7StHNDJ1xYby-HpQE9Bwzcn8dN_xzm6EYxfL1PGkMzK-NqT7EAry_oOKluEaDYi8qcuCGuLgGIuQt3yf3v4k5d-k7VFCkZqXAF5ltrC78oGkmrDsYjJRnSuK1I50VGGuBxKS=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />A clue to one of the films...<span></span>But this pic is Richmond Park, Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@digitalcontentkings?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Tom Shakir</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/english-forest?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Part 2 of
the weird horror/psychological dramas I watched last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">** <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feeling sad today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Watching and tracking the course of the Ukraine invasion, for days
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So angry, so sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Twitter, in particular, can’t help but
give you a massive sense of how many Europeans hate all of England now, and
will never have us back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss Europe
so. Ukraine fights so hard to save itself, and to get into the EU; which is
righteous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then there’s England –
now thought of everywhere as small minded, a joke, a dangerous unsettlement –
and I meet enough of us that are. It’s enough to make you lose hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ukraine is this shiny example of caring to
fight for your people and your freedom, and we just suckered ours away. Look at
the laws the Tories push through Parliament, just yesterday for example…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope the Ukranians win, somehow. They have more spirit than we do. here in this whiny country. Ashamed to be English, so much of the time.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To the unreal horrors. As usual, there may well be massive
spoilers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Assistant (Julie Garner - 2019)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
About Harvey Weinstein and men like him without saying so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Him’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A horror film about the normalisation and everydayness of
dehumanisation, in circumstances where we cease to see certain people as
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heroine loses her soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, offices helped take it; as they do.
Hardly any soundtrack, just the drone of office equipment; enough to steal your
mind on a good day, let alone a morally ambiguous one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saint
Maud (2019)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hmmmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously weird, and very watchable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adore that God spoke in Welsh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of course, God should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soundtrack reminiscent of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hereditary</i>, in that it was disturbing
and I loved it. Very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> strange
film about religious nutteriness, and how you shouldn’t believe omens and
portentous sexually repressed feelings that start off as sightings of
hallucinatory big beetles. It’s only a horror film because of the last 7
minutes. Really it’s a psychological drama, a beetle on the wall about a
psychotic break.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Innocence
(2013)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
random rather excellent film watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
liked the picture on Prime. The minute it started, with a girl going to an
elite boarding school, and it having a sort of overly atmospheric air to it, I
was thinking – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suspiria</i>, they’re all
witches – I wasn’t far wrong: lamias, stealing youth from virgins with their
blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a premise like that, you
just have to go a bit gothic, and very floaty and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Story of O</i> pastels all at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Tomandandy did the music – you can’t
really go wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was both shallow
and extremely silly and totally and utterly beautifully filmed and a bit
wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if the book is as good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[No, I didn’t find it so – later that year.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Emma Wants to Live (documentary - real, 2016)<br />
</b>Interesting and so sad look at a Dutch girl dying of anorexia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no happy ending, there’s just her
thin bone body and what ends up as the shape of her face: these huge eyes and skull
with flesh only really in any muchness around the side of her eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had no muscle, no tissue. The disease
that made her not eat, ate her. Those taking care of her, survivors themselves
– and how strong and solid of them to be able to do it, they commented on the
power of the disease, controlling her till the last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, tellingly, how merciful it was she left
home to die, so her family could live, as her disease ran them as well as her,
as diseases do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew anorexia was
powerful, but just this very unmedical look at it, and I feel I understand
more. I wonder if this film will save any lives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it maybe has?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or if for everyone who watches it it’s
already too late? Like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thinner</i>?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the
Earth (Ben Wheatley - 2021)</span></b><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Bat
shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if it will offend other
pagans or witches? It was good, but not as good as it could have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pacing problem after the very funny Reece
Shearsmith segment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Music not as
immersive as it could have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me
worrying if they actually played all that loud noise to the woods, and did it
piss off or upset the woods? Everyone was a great actor in this, and loved that
the main 2 characters weren’t white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nice change. Was Alma possessed by the woods at the end or was she
simply doing her job in a traumatised situation when they were still having
mushroom flashbacks, offering to lead him out of the forest? Weird and not
quite as wonderful as I had hoped considering how much I love <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Field in England</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Midsommer</i>
was better. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Censor (2021)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Really
mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Used the same <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chernobyl</i> theme as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Field in
England</i>; and had Michael Smiley [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amazingly</i></b> creepy cameo], which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In the Earth</i> also didn’t, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Field in England</i> did, so it was a good
pairing of films, they felt related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Niamh
Algar was amazing, her thinking acting was …strong! I enjoyed this a lot, very
atmospheric. A film about video nasties and a woman disintegrating from guilt
at the incident of her sister disappearing when they were children, and she
thought it was her fault. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dark Eyes
AKA Satan’s Mistress AKA Demon Rage AKA Demon Seed (but not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> one) </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saw this back in 1982 when it was released, though it was made
‘78 or ‘79. I remember loving it hugely, though watching it now I’m not totally
sure why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much chestiness from Lana
Ward, and how could I forget Britt Ekland and John Carradine were also in this?
Kabir Bedi almost does the best acting just looking pent up and longing/cross.
I like the totally overdone music and the endless sea shots?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s overdoneness was why I liked it? I
think I was mentally a very melodramatic teen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mentally mental. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Carmilla
(2020, Hannah Rae)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Amazing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really dreamy and strange, 70s-ish. Really
felt like it was one of those BBC2 Christmas horrors from the early 70s, except
it wasn’t and had many sensibilities of now. Why the lonely girl wasn’t just
allowed to get on kissing the other girl and being actually happy, and was
instead punished so permanently by the sex starved governess companion….grrrrr,
in WendyWorld that woman …well, I would have had a really long conversation
with her about why she’s so nasty and judgemental. It was all so needless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">beautifully</i>
filmed – full of countryside and ideas of England from my childhood: lanes with
overhanging trees, dreams of the south, warm sunshine, leaves in the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was its own little world, that went wrong
for all the characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English people:
never satisfied!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Thing
(1982)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AGAIN!
Icky perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am Clarke, in it, I
realised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be consistently more
concerned about harm to the dogs. Stanley <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pointed out how large Mac’s hat is – I had
never noticed how huge it is, now I can’t unnotice. It’s going to pull my
attention every single time I subsequently watch this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tsk.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Nanny
(1965)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quite
sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy was wrong, but then right
about the nanny being a killer; it was more a psychological horror about consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pamela Franklin is always good to see, and
was very perky and unflappable here. Had never seen Wendy Craig do serious;
felt sorry for her character – I identified with her givey-uppy floppiness. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Omen
(1976)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AGAIN!
Still excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though can’t help
thinking of the child abuse angle watching it now, and that maybe Damien wasn’t
the Antichrist, and maybe Billie Whitelaw was the sanest person in the whole film,
ferociously protecting her charge from the insane nutters that his parents and
other adults became…! Though have to note this interpretation doesn’t explain
her turning up unannounced; or the telepathic dogs…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Itsy
Bitsy (2019)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
A film only incidentally about a really big spider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(But Fry still wouldn’t watch it with me; he
really hates the Large Spiders.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly
it was actually about PTSD and grief and pill addiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it made me cry near the end, very sad.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nocturne
(2018 – not the one about the school)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
was really a good surprise – it was excellent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Echoes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Evil Dead</i>, of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triangle</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i> Halloween episode where they got stuck in the horror house;
and the episode in the basement of the school where Spike could see Buffy but
the others couldn’t, so that he was having 2 conversations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the possession wasn’t about effects but
manner, behaviour and creepy Bible quoting. Really impressed, everyone was
excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it didn’t explain what
was going on at all, you just had to work it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was Hank to Jo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boyfriend, step dad? How long does Jo get
stuck in the loop – does she remember it after she goes in the house the second
time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Liam and Jo weren’t together
at any point, they were friends only, yes? Still wondering – may watch again.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that’s it for the horror/psychological stuff I saw last
year – there was more, but I didn’t note enough to remember them by. Hope you
enjoyed and were made curious by what you read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Despite my shameless spoilering, they are all worth watching – go see
for yourself…</span></p>
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BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-18707754864610221692022-02-24T18:16:00.000+00:002022-02-24T18:16:08.090+00:00Psychological and Regular Horrors I watched last year, Part 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBloUcoNP9RAUv65Al1c27C10ja9eLggIL8WfxNzaOrlIQJZTyo0gCED4SoiGt6-lPPY7__u9wegIg5TSebhKO6nGay0WX3TG3FRQgLiq_mHQ0XVD_DZRAx06e4C_12pHWPhkhlAsP4z4nH0OpG-499i_Tl8_CkZKm424wWETzCiVTQCW5jxTRwa6M=s799" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="799" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBloUcoNP9RAUv65Al1c27C10ja9eLggIL8WfxNzaOrlIQJZTyo0gCED4SoiGt6-lPPY7__u9wegIg5TSebhKO6nGay0WX3TG3FRQgLiq_mHQ0XVD_DZRAx06e4C_12pHWPhkhlAsP4z4nH0OpG-499i_Tl8_CkZKm424wWETzCiVTQCW5jxTRwa6M=w457-h304" width="457" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>© Raimond Spekking - on Wikimedia Commons<p></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Wheatfields in Ukraine</p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">I wondered if today was a shite day to post about horror films. You know what, it really isn't. It's a mirror, its an appropriate day. The real world is full of obvious horrors today, and I can totally tell the difference between what I watch and the real life tragedies and suffering out there. At least what I watch isn't real.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I haven’t been watching so many old classics lately, from
the 70s or 80s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been watching lots
of newer things, and films/series that are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sort
of</i> horror, psychologically speaking, but maybe not entirely. So it’s a
strange list – I just went where the fancy took me. If horror films seem too trivial or upbeat (mad, eh?) for the real world as it is today, feel free to tut at me and click away. I'm doing my best to carry on as normal (ish), and this is what I had planned today. Come back later for unreal horror if the real world's horror has made you feel too ill. I get it. Or just don't read this. More book reviews and some articles about art coming soon (after Part 2). If its not about art and beauty and the peace and passion they give you, what the fuck is all this about anyway? Life? Fighting for independence, against invasion? Fighting for life, to just <u>be</u> here?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes horror films are the truest things I can find in a mad world. And some of them are downright beautiful art. Maybe none of these, but some.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">**<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let’s go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual
I’ll be RANDONLY SPOILERING LIKE CRAZY, and also in some cases barely
describing the plot at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I comment on
what I thought, if I liked characters or what the films made me think of or
about. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should probably mention the
sexual assault in real life that one of the series’ made me think of, in case
you’re not wanting to read about such a real thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here you are on a post about horror and
psychological strife, posted on the day Europe did not much to contain the start of a continent wide war, so – well, some things are real in my life too.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll list them in the order I watched them…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deadline
(Brittany Murphy – the 2009 one; not the much weirder Italian influenced 1980
one)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I don’t think I’ve seen this before . Found it in a tatty old charity shop I’d
not seen before years ago, and it only just called me to watch it, finally. I
thought it was a horror film, but it’s a psychological ghost story with a
little bit of a confusing end. Did she become David?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why did they let her look so heroin chic
through the whole film, was she ill while making it, why didn’t they take better
care of her? I really wanted to feed her some toast and jam, on a regular
basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marc Blucas was good, but no one
has got him repeating the intensity he brought to the role of Riley in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>, since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cheer him on though. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Haven,
Season 1 (2010)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Excellent, kooky and strange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to
live where it was filmed in Canada.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Haven,
Season 2 (2011)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Getting darker and sadder. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Audrey
Parker’s Day Off</i> was the saddest day repeating episode I’ve ever seen. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wendigo</i> episode was also sad, but
because everyone seemed cross with her for killing the Rev, who was a total
shithead we can all do without.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Haven
Season 3 (2012)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
After Audrey finds out she is going to disappear in 2 months; manipulates Duke
to kill a troubled man, and refuses Nathan’s love…it goes all dark and
relationship-py.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He meets Jordan of The
Guard who he can touch because he feels nothing so she can’t hurt him, Clare
the psychiatrist starts popping up in every episode but I don’t know whether to
trust her, and the Black police guy…who’s side is he on? He turns out to be the
Bolt Gun Killer – I did not see that coming at all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’m stalled in season 4 now, in 2022.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll come back to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was annoyed Audrey isn’t being Audrey at
the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much the same as they do
with the new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twin Peaks</i> – when Agent
Cooper isn’t himself for far too long; and when you add that up with what they
did to his character at the end of the original…well, I walked off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stanley finished the new one, but I wanted
Cooper as Cooper, I really missed him – so I left. They should be careful with
beloved characters.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Serpent – 2021 series</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
The genius that is Tahir Rahim, and how much hair can change your head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And helped me understand my exhub better.
Possibly exhub too was a narcissist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though it seems Charles Sobrahj was maybe a sociopath, and maybe a
narcissist too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of ego and a LOT
of anger – I don’t think sociopaths have anger, as it’s an emotion, so…maybe …I
would like to know what made him tick – it seemed to me to be all about racial
anger and society owes me and my mum didn’t love me and I’m sneaky and sly and
a liar but she should love me anyway…<br />
<br />
Jenna Coleman – also incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
just fell in love with someone who made her insides glow with belonging and
dreams and the present moment. Mmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
And Amesh Edireweera who played Ajay – should have had an episode of his own
about how he was found, and also why he was abandoned and not killed by
Sobrajh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was an important and oddly
overlooked character in terms of development. What happened to him after?<br />
<br />
And the Billy Howle playing the Dutch man….all those disparate European actors
speaking languages not their own beautifully, such dedication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a multinational performance in these
tiny days of little England bullshit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
loved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the music was so good I’ve
bought it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>100/10.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dietland (2018
series)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
was really original, very varied in tone – funny, sad, moving over a whole mass
of issues that face women every day, some we are so used to that we barely
think about them – they’re just things we have to do before going out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know, that one of the reasons I overate to begin with, was
that I’m not comfortable with my body when it’s properly slim because of the
way men look at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if it’s theirs
and as if my body’s slimness means something, a message, to them, of
availability, of willingness, of a loss of my space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By looking a way that pleases them I invite
them in, they think; I feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember
thinking these things very clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it’s not a big part of why I got fat, but hiding inside this fatter body is
definitely part of how I got this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Feeling that my body wasn’t mine, that its boundaries became less as I
became slimmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trouble is, you take
it too far the other way and again, you’re property of anyone: they see your
fatness as a message too. A call to attention in a different way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
It was coincidental but interesting, that I was watching this while the Sarah
Everard case was all over the UK news, and women were wanting to do vigils and
being denied by the police because of Covid regulations – but it sparked a
whole ‘Reclaim The Night’ thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women
speaking up about how unsafe it is, just to walk about after dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is, just is. And Sarah Everard was
dressed anything but provocatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Totally warm, ordinary clothing. <br />
<br />
Street harassment has become an issue – as it is in Plum’s life. It’s odd,
while this was on the news, I was agreeing this was true – I remembered the boy
who just came up to me and groped my boobs in the street when I was with a
friend as a teen, outside Edgware Road Station, on a sunny day in May; the way
I carried a little old man’s shopping home for him when I was 14 as he seemed
in difficulty getting off a bus, then he got a lot taller – unwound somehow –
when we got inside his house, and then groped my breasts and more of me, and I
almost felt like I should let him, as what did it cost me, and he was so alone
and thought them ‘so soft’. I felt dead and sideways to myself while he did it,
like my body was not mine at all. Not my property. I was lucky to get out of
there. After I recorded my creepy arse message on his tape recorder that he
directed me to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘My name is Wendy,
and I’m Gilbert’s friend’. Things you say to get out of places and situations. No
good deed…I never went back, of course. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But many issues raised in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dietland</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A terrorism group called Jennifer. What
a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>great name, would never have thought
of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friday
the 13<sup>th</sup> (2009 remake)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Actually
very good – there was a whole mini plot in the teaser at the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jared Padalecki acted better than usual – I’m
pretty sure he can act really well, he just keeps getting parts that constrain
him massively…brilliant to see Amanda Ringhetti, loved her in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mentalist</i>. The whole underground
area – what was that supposed to be – why would it be there under Camp Crystal
Lake? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Honourable mention to the 2 awful guys – the ‘your tits are
stupendous – perfect nipple placement’ guy, and the miming behind you sex
guy…it just makes Jason’s work so much easier and more fun for the rest of us!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Void
(2016)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rather
insane Canadian horror film with Kathleen Munroe and – yay – Art Hindle, that
was a bit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Thing</i>, a bit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hellraiser</i>, a bit bodyhorror/<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Brood</i>, a bit a double episode from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Supernatural</i> and several other things
with nods at Lovecraft all over the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Very absorbing and imaginative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did feel the end was too talky; despite having a deep gravelly voice, you
really have to be something special to pull off the word ‘apotheosis’
seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally happy to have spent
time making faces of WTF at this </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Devil’s
Diary (2007)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Excellent piece of trashy horror – brilliant music, excellent acting and Brian
Krause [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charmed</i>] was in it as a
priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was oddly well made for
schlock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally enjoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wish this combination of people had made more
films. Ah, quiet little Canadian horror films: they so totally rock.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Seasoning House (2012)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Feels familiar – maybe I saw it before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hard hitting. Like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">28 Days Later </i>but
with militia trained rapists and one deaf mute girl in the walls of a
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excellent acting, excellent
atmosphere, heartwrenching, and horribly plausible set up situation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a year later and it’s still in my head,
this film - and its horribly relevant re Eastern Europe, today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wrong
Turn 2: Dead End (2007)<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well,
the first one was classy and good; the second was insane and enjoyed
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erica Leerhsen seems to turn up
in my favourite sequels to things – even better in this than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blair Witch 2</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This film led even more to my recent, sudden
and should have had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">much</i> earlier in
life realisation that Backwoods Horrors/Inbred Cannibal genres are deeply
political – all about haves and have nots and left behind communities in rural
areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one had chemical waste from
a closed paper mill in a now dead town, causing birth defects as explanation
for the whole family of odd looking, nimbly dislocating enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s actually a fascinating genre if done
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I missed its obvious
messageyness before as I was just so creeped out by the faces of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flashbacks to original watching of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hills Have Eyes</i> and its brutality. And
that insane X Files episode where they kept the mother under the bed on a
trolley…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Girlhouse
(2014)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Disturbingly well made – and stuck in my mind because it was slick enough to
feel plausible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You understood why the
killer did it; you weren’t on his side, but you weren’t hating him either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt odd for several days after watching
this and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Seasoning House – </i>and I
think they both gave rise to the first fully formed character pair and plot
that has shot into my head for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I honoured it by writing it down; but I don’t actually want
that story to be what I write. Horror is one thing, sleazeporn another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blur the lines a lot and often with horror,
specially 70s horror, Eurohorror…but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">those</i>
characters and plot that appeared in my head made me wonder what chemicals I
percolate without realising it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
demons do you feed? I might let these characters turn up in another story, but
I don’t want them to have their own one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t want to feed them too much.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that’s it for Part 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Part 2 in a day or so...what other horrors will have hit the real world by then?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithUkraine?src=hashtag_click" role="link">#StandWithUkraine</a></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
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<![endif]--></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-18687471295082646882022-02-24T17:33:00.042+00:002022-04-14T21:28:38.274+01:00Crying All Day...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirSZDps5joMpnzhrNzYfw8aOfQ8LxhQPVHzrznim06nM0q3a96mcSej1q2vxvK0dmnJgjpkmPOO4FPVWSPMFJJODasGiUhG4z-gJEeXUsbhSyY4GmXHSzUQkTW58XNAVhM6S9st9K0_JFNi5BjQTKy0dhXqG_H3C47B5C54kGCBpBezCODdrK55FJq=s5184" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirSZDps5joMpnzhrNzYfw8aOfQ8LxhQPVHzrznim06nM0q3a96mcSej1q2vxvK0dmnJgjpkmPOO4FPVWSPMFJJODasGiUhG4z-gJEeXUsbhSyY4GmXHSzUQkTW58XNAVhM6S9st9K0_JFNi5BjQTKy0dhXqG_H3C47B5C54kGCBpBezCODdrK55FJq=w488-h325" width="488" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@ykhomi?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Yura Khomitskyi</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/ukrainian-flag?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a> <br /></div> <p></p><p>This was the first thing I heard when I got up this morning. That Ukraine had been finally invaded in a way that people couldn't deny. (People like Farage are, but that wanker is in the pocket of the oligarchs.)</p><p>Feel powerless about this. We should be helping them, sending anything they need. </p><p>Not delaying sanctions long enough to give Boris's friends time to move their money from the tax havens here. </p><p>The Ukrainian people are so brave, you see them on TV, so prepared to defend; they must be as as scared as I imagine, but lots of them are standing. </p><p>Its sad for the Russian people that don't want this, of which I am sure there are many. They don't want to fight their neighbours and friends.</p><p>The Ukrainian people just want to live their lives, freely, as much as you can in today's world.</p><p>We are such a destructive species, I thought we were already doomed due to climate change (that the rich will do nothing to stop - wonder where they think they're going?), now it seems we're set on all out war over Europe, or even a nuclear issue. Oh yes, and Ukraine gave up its nukes necause WE and the US and RUSSIA guaranteed them their safety and security. BETRAYAL. I'm so ashamed. <br /></p><p>I am so angry our government is being so weak and doing so little to help them.</p><p>I have nothing inspirational to say, nothing hopeful. I just support the Ukrainians. I am so angry we are letting them down when they need us. I wish I could do something.<br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">#StandWithUkraine </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">#DefendUkraine </span></p><p><u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Addendum, 14th April 2022</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">After watching a lot of coverage this month, a lot of vile stuff before it got collared by Twitter or Youtube, and reading a lot of Ukraine journalistic work...I have to say...much of Russia seems under the thrall of their propoganda machine, which seems as imperialist and superiority based as anything the vile British Empire ever spewed out (yes, I'm English and my country is going a bit fascistic itself right now, it sucks; and its past sucks too - I'm not proud at all). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I understand there are people there in Russia protesting and I understand everyone else is scared to, so bowed down by lies or beleives it all (like idiots here beleived Brexit rhetoric)....but. But. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I've rarely seen a case of one country so blatantly peaceful then invaded and now being razed to rubble, senselessly, before. Yes, I should have paid a fuckload more attention to Aleppo, and now to Yemen. Yes. I'm paying attention now. Even more strongly I say give Ukraine what they need, anything they need. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">If Russia is brothers with Ukraine - as I ignorantly thought, before I read more - then they are the viciousest most abusive of dysfunctional brothers. The kind you free yourself from and never want to see again ever. 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<![endif]--></p><p><br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-33707425801721442882022-02-12T17:38:00.003+00:002022-02-12T18:22:29.411+00:00Quick review of Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler (2021)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw9pkeDOIAnTzMKXm9R2RA4QXhkAGX1SOZ56KXOjTBHz_loK9OsnwZ_0F1qLIw2fQFOdUnBo4-vcqxVPkUbxflvfAXXWzEAuaeS4YMPpKFF6xmww-ANPWCcee9urcDh38yJi4ESFWiep0D0Cthmiwpz8OkoVeVMKKYbzHG4EAf_JgCkWorcQyifA0B=s231" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="153" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw9pkeDOIAnTzMKXm9R2RA4QXhkAGX1SOZ56KXOjTBHz_loK9OsnwZ_0F1qLIw2fQFOdUnBo4-vcqxVPkUbxflvfAXXWzEAuaeS4YMPpKFF6xmww-ANPWCcee9urcDh38yJi4ESFWiep0D0Cthmiwpz8OkoVeVMKKYbzHG4EAf_JgCkWorcQyifA0B=w184-h278" width="184" /></a></div><br /> This was the best novel I've ever read for showing how routinely performative we all are in every aspect of our dealings with others, both online and in person. The shameless scale of the lying for no real reason other than to hide our true and often shallow thoughts about things was scarily accurate! A very honest book about routine dishonesty in social interaction.<br /><br />It also had a very unexpected and sudden twist at the end, dealt with coldly and inconclusively, which made me feel sad for the isolation of all the characters and how no one was honest with anyone. In the end, everyone was rendered more and more alone, despite the illusion of constant contact. It simply led to more dishonesty and more performativeness. Very real depiction of failed communication in the digital age.<br /><br />In some ways hugely fun to read, wonderfully Laurence Sterne/Samuel Richardson-esque long rambly sentences and playing with form and language; but as a whole, the message was sad. <p></p><p><br /></p><p>(Review also up on my Goodreads account.)<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-74308164945459386402021-12-26T12:01:00.004+00:002021-12-26T12:09:15.995+00:00A tiny review of the tiny book, The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh_Esu5zZAlS7krQ34E_84Wx4gW974v9Rq0ubPd1H7db6NavWDKq-2yu0j_rhM4eYHjiJ7OvGqSaRphnjnolDClCtkCe8_Te_GXdTc1I93qGmz2znzrwYhBm5i8xJlu84umaRCY86xkurl4wQ1NEoD-C_y36Vwf73oj1qt2WP94lLNzz2btpwFcr5_=s487" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="382" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh_Esu5zZAlS7krQ34E_84Wx4gW974v9Rq0ubPd1H7db6NavWDKq-2yu0j_rhM4eYHjiJ7OvGqSaRphnjnolDClCtkCe8_Te_GXdTc1I93qGmz2znzrwYhBm5i8xJlu84umaRCY86xkurl4wQ1NEoD-C_y36Vwf73oj1qt2WP94lLNzz2btpwFcr5_=s320" width="251" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a wonderfully quiet calm book. A couple meet a neighbour's cat and slowly become friends with it, welcoming it into their house and lives as an 'honoured guest'. The minutiae of the cat's activities, and the joy in watching it, are described. The story moves slowly and quietly through the seasons and years, telling me much about the sort of area the writer and his wife live in; the Japanese society they inhabit, and how you can come to love an animal that just wanders into your life, that you never touch. Beware, it gets sad. But there's hope at the end too.<br /><br />This book proves that nothing much needs to happen, that there's no great need of 'conflict' in books, contrary to current wisdom and expectation. Just hearing about this small string of shushy events was enough. It was thoughtful, and spare and very real. And at the end there is a confusion of events and timings that puzzles and pains the author - and that was perhaps the realest moment in the whole book. Knowing there are some things you will never never understand, and that time has taken them, they're gone, you can't search for 'the truth' or evidence or reasons. You will never *know* some things. So human. This book was a tiny gem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Also posted on my goodreads feed.) </span><br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-29317297137023150402021-11-24T16:45:00.000+00:002021-11-24T16:45:00.968+00:00On Buffy, aging without noticing, and people’s opinions of you<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_giK88F3HEw/YZ5mnOKQRgI/AAAAAAAACng/2bXJOporWhUugoZ1TqMpcPzNmJGuCtdlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BuffyS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_giK88F3HEw/YZ5mnOKQRgI/AAAAAAAACng/2bXJOporWhUugoZ1TqMpcPzNmJGuCtdlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BuffyS3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grrr Arggg.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
finished watching Season 3 of Buffy again, for the however many-th time. <a href="https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Wilkins">MayorWilkins </a>was the best villain Buffy ever produced, for me. Oddly layered,
humourous and relatable (in a way <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)">Ted </a>wasn’t, even though they were written
similarly). I almost wanted him to be in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my</i>
family.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There were two things watching this time that I saw that I
never saw before – after all these decades of watchings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">First that Angel probably did sleep with
Faith in the episode where he pretended to turn to get her to talk about the
Mayor’s ascension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Buffy was so
righteously sick about it, much worse than a kiss – how could I have missed
this implication before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">And the other
was seeing Oz and Willow sleep together for the first time; and seeing Buffy
and Angel break up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oz/Willow thing
was realizing this is the first time I’ve watched it and known I’ll very likely
never be back there again in this life: that place of first, early hope in a
relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That place where you want
to kiss your boyfriend all the time, and just be within touching distance –
never straying too far, lest that silvery connection fizzles out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Energy exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Buffy and Angel – that fatal connection
that hurts so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s thankful I will
likely never be back <i>there</i>, but also sad that I didn’t go there the very first
time with someone who wasn’t a liar and as selfish as I was, but should have
known better because he was so much older and more experienced with life.
Either way, those extremes of hurt or hope…getting them from a person is a gone
girl now. Not a possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likely.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The thing is, watching someone tenderly cradle someone’s
face, look at them with such love or awe…I had no idea I’d one day watch that
and think: not for me, anymore, that level of youthful hopefulness<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
did I age?</i></b> I’m 50.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
think it would feel so different, to realise these things that may never happen
again. Or that I don't view love the same way. I'm irritated that Stanley and I are no longer cradling each other's faces! What happened!<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I really enjoy sleeping (bear with me here).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was wondering the other day if I’ll be consciously on my death bed one
day, and think I wasted so much of my life being scared of the pressures of the day
and sleeping as a result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But maybe I
won’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you’re dead you can’t get
that lovely liquid, pastel feeling of falling asleep, or waking up feeling
different (“have you tried turning it off and on again?” says <a href="https://hypecrumbs.com/maurice-moss-quotes/">Moss</a>). It’s just
the one way street, and possibly right when you were in the middle of something
fun or important. No more being massively productive in evenings and the night, like I always have been. No more of that. No choice. Weird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>When
did I get so much closer to this?</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Much</i> earlier this
year, in the just beforehand of the Charisma Carpenter revelations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Joss Whedon turns out to be a shithead
fallout (go Google it), Alyson Hannigan said of Buffy’s character that Angel was the
right boyfriend for Buffy to have as she was coming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">into</i> her power; and Spike was the boyfriend she needed when she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>had</u></i> her power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An ideal of youth, and a messy rather mental painful
reality, respectively. I wonder when I'll feel its time for my 'power'? A very nebulous idea that. Maybe it simply means self-worth, and the degree of confidence that comes from that.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I also meant to say, watching Buffy after all this Joss
Whedon stuff is fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t get to
kill it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s always been bigger than
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers and actors, the music
people – what they all made has survived and been extraordinary despite his
toxic personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a lot of things,
people made beauty despite pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
a lot of places pain shouldn’t be but somehow it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may not really have been a feminist, or
taken us all for fools in that respect – but he still somehow managed to have a big hand in
creating a character, a set of characters so relevant they still sing out today,
so strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me cry to think they
suffered to make this beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at
least it’s beautiful, and strong, and will survive him. Those characters still
help me now, today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This day.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even if it’s only to see that I’ve gone past some points and
may be headed in a different direction now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There’s this thing happening as I get older.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only does my quirkiness appear to no
longer come across as cute - I used to regularly be told I was <a href="https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay">Phoebe</a>-like, from <i>Friends</i>. Now instead I get reactions as if I am always nervous, uneasy and weird. People seem to
have either judged me before they met me (people at the café I worked at with Fry,
judged me as Fry’s mum only); or made up their minds very soon after and decided
I’m too much work, or awkward and totally lacking in confidence, or they think
I’m a bit stupid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This last is the cafe
again, where one boss in particular (the annoying one) but also the other boss
(the brilliant unusual one), seemed to view me as someone with no expertise at
all, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was <i>cleaning</i>…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I used to get it from my a more recent boss sometimes too, in a more conventional officey setting
– I saw impatience or gritted teeth or something, go across their face when they
ask me to do some writing, and I would ask for tone for it: perky,
conversational but formal <i>or </i>conversational but informal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They</span> acted like they felt they’d said the answer
enough times already, though each piece was different. Then they would over
explain without the answer being within those words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It makes me wonder if people actually see me properly at
all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I ask the questions in a way
that makes sense; sometimes I’ll say the questions again in a different way if
the answer isn’t forthcoming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s
as if people answer to their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">idea of me</i></b> rather than what’s there
or what I said or acted or did.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And people’s ideas of me appear to not be as friendly or
charitable as they once were. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When did this happen and what did I do? </i></b>Is
it partly to do with the <a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/jenny-middle-aged-women-arent-invisible-theyre-just-ignored-39391761.html">Invisible Woman phenomenon</a> noticed by lots of women in their late 40’s
onwards, that once you get to be ‘middle-aged’, people (<a href="https://pcar.org/blog/invisible-woman-syndrome-can-make-aging-hard">especially men</a>) seem…to
simply stop seeing you as active/dynamic/competent…<a href="https://medium.com/@victoria.maclennan/the-invisibility-cloak-of-middle-aged-women-14eb12161a85">or much at all</a>? It’s as if
you fade a little at the edges, and start to prepare to be someone’s nan, in
print dresses, lots of polyester and very comfortable shoes; short helmet hair.
Ugly coats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a whole <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">thing</b> coming at you<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m annoyed in a way to be writing this kind of thing
(overthinky negativity) again – it’s the death of me ever wanting to read
things back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many times in the past,
I write to make sense of things, but then I’ll look at it weeks or days or
months later, to see if I’ve learned anything, or can learn from my previous responses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all I find is this long tortured,
convoluted and over complicated narrative I want no part of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even moreso if I handwrote it – I hate my
handwriting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But things aren’t always simple, and especially not for me,
personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So…I make sense best as I
can?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ghost of Fry is over my shoulder, and he says “your
<i>head</i>, man…” while shaking his own head and looking rather smug that his head is
not my head.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So who sees me and sees that I am an ok person, as much
right to be here as anyone, and not useless, hopeless and stupid? I don’t
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s a shame we can’t trust our thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect other people’s thoughts about me
are incorrect (and maybe more about them), and I have read in countless books
that thoughts precede feelings states, so that if I am sad and feeling
hopeless, as I am now, it’s a problem with the thoughts I have had<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The words are useless and hopeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the thoughts seem to come <u>as</u>
feelings and they feel so true. It’s tiring to have the thoughts; it’s tiring
to correct the thoughts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know who the hell I am anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People judge me on my children’s behaviour
and attitudes; Stanley judges me on my sleeping habits, Best Mum thinks
everything I say to her is a criticism; and I judge me on these thoughts that
hold me down. But here they are.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Things are beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole
(slightly doomed) planet, filled with beautiful nature and creatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I really <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i></b> enjoy my books, films and TV…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There’s two quotes from Buffy that are apposite to my state
of mind confusion here (of many, these were just the ones the popped into my
head just now – it’s a damn quotable show).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ever astringent Cordelia, to Buffy in a moment of
exasperation at her angry behaviour and navel gazing: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Embrace the pain. Spank your inner moppet. Whatever.
But get over it, because pretty soon you’re not even gonna have the loser
friends you’ve got now." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gulp. That's me told.<br /></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And also the way more aspirational speech by Buffy in the
last ever episode: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></p><blockquote><b>"I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking yet.
I'm not finished becoming...whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to
be."</b></blockquote><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I’m 50. There’s more to be done yet, no matter what
people see and make of my currently chunky and rather grumpy exterior. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bring it
on.<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, you know, it'll come regardless what I say, so being spunky and feisty, and possibly even <i>graceful</i>, is the way to go, right...?<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MiVAeUkypfs/YZ5j11rRDHI/AAAAAAAACnY/3BhtiyF7d-En7SOwzn3kNZGKCu-I2dCqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Me%2Bat%2B50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MiVAeUkypfs/YZ5j11rRDHI/AAAAAAAACnY/3BhtiyF7d-En7SOwzn3kNZGKCu-I2dCqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Me%2Bat%2B50.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><i>Me at 50; and Fluffhead at 11, unfiltered</i></b><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And then, if you fight it, and dress your mental age or actual figure – you’re ‘mutton
dressed as lamb’?!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><div id="ftn2">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
There’s the basis of CBT – change the thoughts to change the feelings.</span></span></p>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Of
course, there’s also the immortal</span><span> "Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be
brave. Live." </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">But I usually save that one for when things
are <i>really</i> dark.</span></span></span></p>
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BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-33624112675559406992021-11-05T17:08:00.000+00:002021-11-05T17:08:00.462+00:00What I Watched for Halloween: The Burning (1981) - time to overthink the characters!<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ey2WBWs-vgg/YYO99r1NFgI/AAAAAAAACmQ/EpdaN7tWcfsuq6B5hVeregqfFFxdMLkegCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/SHEARS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ey2WBWs-vgg/YYO99r1NFgI/AAAAAAAACmQ/EpdaN7tWcfsuq6B5hVeregqfFFxdMLkegCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/SHEARS.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So MANY SPOILERS...</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have a very long history with this film, as a longtime horror fan. I first watched it in the living room with my dad when I was 12 - with my mum hovering nervously by the door, saying (as she did so many times), "Sid, do you really think she should be watching this?" To which he replied (as he did so many times), "Woman, sit down if you're staying, and stop worrying." Cue, mum looking very worried for my mental health - and immortal soul - and leaving quietly. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So dad and I would carry on my unexpurgated exploration of all the dodgy 70's and 80's titles from the video shop. The rule was, I could watch whatever, as long as he was there for the first viewing to make sure...I don't know. That it wasn't porn? (Though I am strongly convinced after seeing 70's and 80's porn later in life that horror and porn are so linked up as to be close sister genres, in many ways; the low budget kinds of both, at any rate.)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So I saw lots of films I probably shouldn't have seen at this age because dad loved it when I thought for myself (except when I disagreed with him, when of course, it was disliked intensely!). I was fascinated with horror, and still am. It's partly because I'm deeply woo, and convinced there's more here (in the world) than meets the eye and so far recognised science, and supernatural horror was around a lot at that time and was one of the few places to feed my need for more. Since then there are many more books, documentaries and other sources for my speculative ideas on life. But it was too late. My love of horror, supernatural and otherwise, stayed with me when it's initial function was over. I stayed with the countryside camp slashers (<i>Friday the 13th</i> [1980] being the classic there), because...I loved the scenery. I know that sounds weird - but sometimes I'd be looking straight past the characters and slight plots and be wandering off mentally into the woods/fields myself. American countryside is beautiful. <i>The Burning</i> was a favourite of this sub-genre from the first time I saw it.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I've seen it off and on again over the years, always having new ideas and opinions about it, mostly about how I'm relating to the characters. Sometimes I hate it - so many unlikeable characters; the time I forgot about Cropsy killing the sex worker near the beginning (so cruel, she was nice to him, and she wasn't representative of those who hurt him, so why her other than opportunity?); the orderly in the hospital being needlessly voyeuristic at Cropsy's suffering (more cruelty, casual and unnecessary)...so many unlikeable people. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And then sometimes my mind focusses on the better natured parts of it - Fisher Stevens and Jason Alexander's characters sarcastically sticking up for the hapless and odd Alfred - who can't seem to express in words his fascination for the Sally character, creeping about after her and trying to scare her instead. The constant joking about, the sinking kayak scene. As an English person and an introvert, the very idea of American summer camp seems hellish - you can't get away from people if you need to! - but these films often make it look like chaotic lighthearted fun. Fiction is great. Then there's Glaser - what a weird boy: strangely childlike all the time, sweet and insecure with Sally, but a bully and a thug with everyone else. All the teens are much more childlike than we are used to now in our horror. Not even the self awareness of the original <i>Scream </i>(1996) teens; and have you watched the series remake of <i>I Know What You Did Last Summer</i> (2020)? Oh my god, could you squash any more unlikeable, selfish and shallow Insta TikTokers into one series? Why do TV execs have this idea of millenials as like this? They are a much more varied lot of people than this constant stereotyping as vicious overgrown children. I had to stop watching an episode before the end as I only liked 2 people and one of them got killed in a very early episode. I just didn't care what happened next.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Yes, I am complaining about character development and portrayal in horror, be it in film or TV. There's no reason why you can't paint a shorthand character and have it be interesting and sympathetic, even when you don't like that character. Everyone in <i>Final Exam</i> [1982], for example - tiny portraits, you get who they are, what 'types' and it works. Though, teen slasher horrors specialise in teens you don't like much. It started off with the 'if you have sex you die' trope, but then just became about general spoiled youth, overprivileged and 'getting what was coming to them' in the eyes of...? I'm not sure who, middle aged white men most probably, since they are to blame for more or less everything in Western society (I'm not kidding).<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Back to <i>The Burning</i>. I always used to remember Alfred as the
strange little hero – but it’s Todd, denim shirted Bruce Campbell lookalike, just oozing responsibility and grown-upness who actually saves the day.<span> </span>Yet…Todd,
in a twist I totally forgot, is to blame for the whole thing, by being one of
the people who originally burnt Cropsy and caused him to stop being grumpy and
start being psychotic in the first place.<span> </span>He seems so nice
and reliable and responsible – <i>because </i>of what he did before?<span> </span>Trying to make up for it?<span> </span>But…how could he tell the Camp Blackfoot
story with such relish round the campfire, knowing he was a part of it?<span> </span>That Cropsy may have survived, in agony,
because of what he’d done?<span> </span>On the other hand –
they 'pranked' Cropsy in the first place because he was a bully, from what they
said (beating a child for no reason was mentioned); so here is Todd again, sticking up for bullied (and now killed)
children.<span> </span>So maybe not all bad?<span> </span>Complicated.<span> (And where could they have possibly gotten a skull with worms in it that looked so realistic?! Far too realistic for ...Stanley just walked past and told me to let it go. Tsk.)<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
My relationship with the film is further complicated by realising Harvey Weinstein wrote the main story idea – the film is full of men
trying to have sex with women – the women get killed either way – Karen for not
doing it; Sally for doing it.<span> </span>There’s prominent
bullying entitled men here – and <i>they die too</i>: Glaser and Eddie.<span> </span>When Jason David was asked what his best
memories of filming <i>The Burning</i> were, he answered, “looking at Carrick Glenn” (actress playing Sally – naked shower scene comes to mind, lots of gratuitous and at the time
expected boob action). In the context of a Harvey Weinstein stink laying over the production, which until all the stories broke years later with Rose McGowan in particular, I had no clue about because I follow films, characters and actors, not directors or producers; it makes the playful comment seem sad. But Jason Alexander distanced himself from <i>The Burning</i> many years ago, and in the same Twitter exchange too, see below. One of many actors making a film on the way up that is looked at differently later, the film a bit damned by association with an actual predator. The past is a different country. I've always liked Jason Alexander too. I'm a sucker for the socially awkward characters he so often plays.<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img alt="" 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/></span></span></span></p></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As a feminist (among other labels), I've spent years a bit conflicted as to why I love male made horror films, full of the male gaze, killing women. The Italian and Spanish 70's directors in particular, enjoy it too much. The answer is complicated, and inconclusive. There's the usual strong final woman protagonist who triumphs over the 'killer' - which is always cathartic. Though I used to worry the women would be in mental hospitals for the rest of their lives as a result of the events, whatever they were. (<i>Halloween Kills</i> [2021] tried to riff on trauma caused to a final woman, and her town. Sorry to say they botched that film almost unimaginably badly, but I see where they were <i>trying </i>to go with the idea of longterm and repeated trauma and how it haunts and warps you as a person, family, town, culture; abused becoming abusers etc.) The subject of why I like horror is a seperate post another time, I think. It's a lot about the characters, a lot about the psychology of being afraid and how to get past it. I'm a massive wuss as a person, usually - horror makes me feel braver.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Interestingly, in <i>The Burning</i>, there is no final girl - just two final boys. Which is fair, as boys were the ones who hurt Cropsy to begin with. This is a film less about violence and a reckoning with pretty young women than many other slashers of the era. There's more male victims than usual. It seems to me more about lost opportunities and the generalised rage that makes in a person. Coupled with the pain of a disfiguring and life-changing full body injury: five years in hospital is a long time to agonise and brood, and decide revenge against cruel children is a great idea. I often wondered if the weirdness of the Alfred character was meant to show that he was a sort of unfortunate Cropsy in waiting type of person, and the fact he had to fight him with Todd at the end, and that he was the one who burned Cropsy again showed that he would not be following on the path of the lonely embittered caretaker, that his life would go a different way now. Not through a show of strength (defeating Cropsy), but because Todd came back for him and helped him, showing Alfred a different way of relating to people. A more healthy way. But then, as you see, I can overthink for England.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Speaking of actors making long ago films reinterpreted later, this <i>is </i>one of those horror films containing early appearences by later stars, here the already mentioned Jason David; but Fisher Stevens and Holly Hunter too – Fisher Stevens gets
more air time though, being the finger chopped of the wonderfully infamous and
too short raft scene - which is always way longer in memory. I don't know why more pleople don't remember Tom Hanks' small but memorable part in <i>He Knows You're Alone</i> [1980] - another low key gem. Astonishing how many later stars began in horror.<br /></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
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Lastly, the Rick Wakeman soundtrack is the final word in horror themes: as iconic as <i>Halloween</i>, in a different sort of way. Music is a big reason why horrors are great. Now, as usual, after having re-viewed this, I've got it earworming my head, probably for a week or so before its supplanted by something else. You hear too - this is the main theme:<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6aBpNMKtowE" width="320" youtube-src-id="6aBpNMKtowE"></iframe></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's enough overthinking for now. Till next time :-)</span><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-8929080740519152072021-01-25T22:11:00.000+00:002021-01-25T22:11:54.437+00:00When I think I'm reading one thing, and realise I'm NOT reading another - and it bugs me<p>Every now and again I fancy a story about implausibly wealthy people living their sparkly lives with constantly name dropped clothing brands. Mostly I like them for the faraway places they visit and describe. I'm not going to really review this one or name it, as it's one of many like this out there, I just happened to remind myself of my annoyance by picking this one to read. </p><p> I was very bothered by this one because it visited South Africa, and I really wasn’t sure whether these white people should be living “in such glory” as the main male character put it.
They have a female black servant called Anxious. There’s an episode of home invasion, dogs slaughtered, main male character shot, heroine and Anxious bound on the kitchen floor -- and the black men carrying out the crimes are complete afterthoughts in the story. They turn up, from poverty, that has been touched on, as his the prevalence of crime in Johannesburg, and the white man views it as the “price we pay” for the vast estates and beauty in which they live. The way there was no contextualising of the vicious crimes at all, committed by “bulging eyes” and somebody called “Somebody” – it was just something that happened. As if it was weather. That’s wrong. </p><p>And if that was glided over in this way, it makes you remember what else was glossed over back at home, with the heroine’s husband a banker, and the financial crisis in full swing – the story is set in 2008. But it’s all just weather. None of it is grounded. The weather of the financial crisis stops the women spending so much, and they worry that their husbands are worrying; and out in South Africa a lovely interlude of passion is destroyed by violence that is never properly (or even a bit) explained.
There is no explanation or suggestion of responsibility for either thing. The empty gloss over is jarring.<br /></p><p>I understand that this wasn’t a political story and didn’t want to grind those axes, but leaving such important parts of the story bare, not explaining even the smallest background information, perhaps assuming the reader just knows and has strong opinions already – which actually may be the case, in that there were several odd parts of the story where characters referred to themselves as having “British grit” or “British” stubbornness or stiff upper lippedness. A certain view of themselves as Britons. </p><p>It’s not only Brexit that has soured me to ‘British’ as a chest beating qualification for anything other than my irritation; it’s when characters say things like this and we know they usually mean ‘British is <i>Better</i>’.
An otherwise interesting, well-written and escapist novel, marred by areas of evasion and emptiness. A cake with nothing inside. Hopefully I'll pick my rest reading better next time.<br /></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-61875374976424350022020-09-06T15:42:00.002+01:002020-09-06T16:28:23.295+01:00'Three Women' by Lisa Taddeo - absorbing, very sad, very familiar<p style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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had much hype, which didn’t affect my enjoyment, but from reading the comments
on the book itself and the comments of those in the BTM reading group, this book
was very mixed in reception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it
very sad, and very true and oddly silent in places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Lina was gang-raped while still in school after being drugged, and seemed to idolise and stay stuck on
an earlier crush from that era when she grew up, becoming obsessed with the perfect sexual
experience and it’s meaning emotionally filling her life, for her to not be
‘disgusting’ , to be loved and seen – sex and desire were all mixed up with
identity and absence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has an affair
that becomes far more transactional than she can see it to be, with that same
man, when they are both married to other people later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He…treats her as a pet, an afterthought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted her to do better, but she was so
obsessed with how he made her feel – I worried how she would feel when the
affair eventually stopped – what scaffolding would support all the outward need
she had to feel then? She had no good mirror reflecting back at her what was
her own strength, only refractions of the past she played out in lurid
emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really felt her.<br />
<br />
Maggie had alcoholic parents and an early sexual experience that she was
crucified in school about, followed by an affair with a teacher - at which
point she got totally stuck and could not move on: it had been so intense and
real and unfinished and then it was a court case and no one believed her
[except a little old man, and a reporter, but after the fact].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see her lose hope near the end, and her
father has also killed himself; but not about this…that is a big silence in the
book – Maggie’s reaction to her father’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hope she does ok.<br />
<br />
And Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rich girl who knew how it
all should look on the outside and went to great lengths to make it look right,
swinging when suggested by her husband, being the right level of agreeable –
‘optimal’ as the protagonist of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harrow
Lake</i> would have said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An eating
disorder to be prettily slender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many
ways her story was the least interesting because we got to hear the least of
it, and because she had/has perfected outward appearance – she’s preserved in
amber for however long: the thinnest, prettiest, most agreeable wife sexually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt Sloane needed friends. That you don’t
compete with; just friends.<br />
<br />
The book was supposed to be about the desires of women, how we feel it and what
it does in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I read, more
than anything, was how empty we seem to be, how small and delicate our sense of
self-worth, how we constantly seek to optimise, change, manipulate it for love
and a sense of wellness or joy of LIFE of being AWAKE AND HERE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very</b> sad, to read so many different lives and to see them all come
down to the same basic thing: we feel unloved or unheard or unworthy, we are
never enough, we must always change for others, our self is always mirrored
from without, never self-sustaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re fossil fuel; we need to get renewable! <br />
<br />
All the women seemed totally formed by the school age years and in Sloane’s
case, a bit before, regarding sexual experience as formative for personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The early years are so important; so many of
us get stuck with the identity we feel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then</i>,
and subsequent change or layering is very much from that point, it felt. We don’t
seem to realise we are stuck with the teen or tween we were, and a lot of our
thinking about love and sex comes direct from feelings and experience of that
era, not now. Stunted growth; sometimes poison, tumourous growth around
incidents that happened then. Arrested emotional development.<br />
<br />
This is only one of many facets of women’s lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t worry about emotional voids when
you’re trying to pay the rent or you just lost your job, or your living
situation is unsafe…But these are portrayals of states of mind and resulting
actions that made sense, and felt familiar; done some, seen some. It makes me
want, more than ever, to be more self-sustaining myself. The weird thing is,
you ask people who are, and they can’t explain to you how it’s done, they just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i> it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure how much of the changing behaviour can be learned from
books either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I keep looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--KCYQnhmHIY/X1T04S1ineI/AAAAAAAACSI/Ia66eknA7iISyUfESipK__WdJk_AAmwJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/3women2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--KCYQnhmHIY/X1T04S1ineI/AAAAAAAACSI/Ia66eknA7iISyUfESipK__WdJk_AAmwJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3women2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Lisa Taddeo<br /></div><p></p>BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-24435780085569120422020-07-26T17:09:00.000+01:002020-07-27T13:29:15.072+01:00How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne - problematic, but really readable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SPOILERS, AS EVER...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm here a bit late for this book. I
can see why it got compared to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bridget
Jones’s Diary</i> a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I can see how
really middle class it is – as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bridget
Jones’s Diary</i> was, in ways I couldn’t when I first read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bridget </i>all those years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You don’t see class so much when you’re younger, unless you’re in a very
bad situation where it’s obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
ARE these people that have endless money to spend going to weddings?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And buying an extra £150 of hair and face
product because their ‘facialist’ said so? [When did we stop calling them
beauticians?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Cos facialist sounds
porny.] <br />
<br />
The other thing here was that I really didn’t like Tori, I found her difficult to sympathise with even though I <i>got </i>her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Her life was ultra modern - an autobiographical self-help book leading to a social media and speaking tour life. </span>It wasn’t that she was moany – that was honesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was so…her life was so meaningless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it was meant to show how she was
enslaved to caring what others thought and how things looked and how that made
her judgemental and cold as well as horribly vulnerable, because needing all that
outside validation kept her forever open to high levels of emotional draining
from everyone and every situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Plus, her BF <u>did</u> behave like a dick, though I’m not convinced that was a
portrayal of narcissism; more simple emotional unavailability and stunted
emotional development.<br />
<br />
I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">totally</i> got what she said about pre
and post baby women, and the sadness of losing someone to that change of
internal weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is that tragic when
it happens to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s that tragic when
you’re the mum and you are still on the wrong side of the divide – you are
still your regular self, just with another human close by who needs care and
attention, whom yes, you love unconditionally – but no, it’s not all
wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still almost entirely
ME. Which is a guilt that doesn’t get explored much.<br />
<br />
There was enough in here that was universal that I got – who hasn’t experienced
that blow job?; but the females I know of swallowed all of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (EDIT: 2 days later: why did I write it like that? Like its a competition - we swallowed it all and Tori didn't? Like 'we' had it worse? I didn't mean that; or that it's more normalized. I think I meant the experience is a bit different but familiar to so many of us.) </span>And yes, it’s very weird that men don’t like
to taste themselves on us, in my experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What is that about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, there’s
a missing scene where a vibrator was going to be a problem, and that scene
never happened and is never after alluded to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hopefully circumstances made it so Tori never had to go there, as she
didn’t want to. But it was odd the way it was built up as a problem then just
disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got the feeling the scene
was edited away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not why.<br />
<br />
Anyway – an engrossing read, I cared, I wanted her to be happier, I was glad
when she went off in the next hopefully better direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had help many of us don’t – a seemingly excellent income; a home she
could abandon, and somewhere else to go where they would be happy to have her
and have space to put her up for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had the choice to make a change and the financial ability to make it
happen there and then. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For all my snarkiness, this needed to be told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s not the best book since sliced bread as many people have recommended it to me as;
I see too much class in it – and not mine, so I feel prickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not Holly Bourne’s fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’d recommend this, most people liked Tori
as a character more than I did – plus, I usually can’t stay with books or TV/film where I don’t
like the characters or at least am enjoying disliking them – but this one I
stayed with because I wanted her to be happier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I worried near the end that she might actually commit suicide, and was relieved
it didn’t go that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, about the
end, when she wrote that letter to her editor, suggesting another book – did that
mean she was going to be honest again as before, or that she was going to
re-create exactly the same mistake again, by being honest and authentic
initially and then lying ever after and becoming addicted to the social media
look and like universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t
sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was she saved, or not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it was meant to be ambiguous, as we all know what it is to repeat and repeat our mistakes…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, and this book was very funny too. But the topics underneath that were so serious (underneath the facecream instructions and the shampoo that doesn't weigh down our damn hair) that it's easy for me to forget. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remind me to never attempt to be a social influencer, and to never try and know a heroine. Just leave them where they are, with the book you read and re-read, the film you felt inspired by, the look you base part of your own on. Take only what's given, don't claw more. Our heroines are people too.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-54471891569390997782020-05-29T19:30:00.000+01:002020-05-29T19:30:37.548+01:00The Water Cure, by Sophie Mackintosh - not so small review thoughts
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SPOILERS!
If you haven’t read the novel and want to, probably don’t read this…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s difficult to know what to
say about this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I didn’t
like reading it at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a deeply
alien environment, these women’s minds, and it felt unpleasant – I didn’t want
to keep learning about their lives, where their parents hurt and abused them
for love and to keep them safe from an outside world that’s contaminated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspected it wasn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i>, or not to the extent they were told; that their parents
were really running a mini cult with their girl children as the unwitting
members…It’s never quite made plain, what happened in the ‘outside’, beyond the
barbed wire ‘border’. It may have been climate change accelerated, and they may
have been in an area where there’s less rights for women anyway [a
forwards-backwards time line of a situation set-up]. <br />
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But then the small chapters and spare sentences grew on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to know what was really going
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was almost like a thriller, told
very slowly and obtusely, with slow footsteps in sand, and lots and lots of
salt and semi-drownings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The revelation
that the mother is dead – sanctioned by the father you thought was dead but isn’t,
who sent the men to bring the women back ‘to the mainland’, as their lives
isolated had been ‘a failure’ – “our lives are our lives” Grace thinks – the angriest
woman in the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lia, so often the
least-loved [and how fucked up is the ‘choose who you love by lots for the year’
system?], falls for the charms and meat-presence of the men the quickest, so
desperate for love: “love enough to make you sick”.<br />
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So many truths in this book: Lia watches Llew move and thinks – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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movements, despite his size, that tells me he has never had to justify his
existence, has never had to fold himself into a hidden thing, and I wonder what
that must be like, to know your body is irreproachable.</span></i></i></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></i></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
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Instead, Lia knows: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The body is the
purest sort of alarm. If something feels wrong, it probably is.’</i> But then,
she cuts herself often, to make sure her pain equals that of her sisters, so
that they will still love her and see her as one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The things we all do, this thing, or other
things.<br />
<br />
It’s a book not just about the difference between men and women – they are
meat, solid, strong, dangerous; the women had been carefully and deliberately
brought up to be vitamin deficient and weaker than need be, to keep them in the
‘utopia’ their parents had been trying to build.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also about the cruelty women do to other
women because love can be unsafe, between men and woman, between women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those semi drownings, part
baptism, part controlled revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
way their emotions were denied or funnelled into physical acts designed to show
them how fragile their bodies were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
more I think about it, the more I feel the parents were monstrous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King toward Grace – ‘love of family,
magnified’. Mmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Lots of other reviewers describe the book as luminous and haunting, and it is
that, the language is controlled and beautiful and deadly – it hits you and you
feel the attenuated lives they lead, the suffocation of it, the need to break
free, but the fear always there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
is why the sad scenes near the end, where the male characters are killed feel
so inevitable and hurtful: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gwil, by
cruelty and loneliness [lack of a mother?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the only mother in this book is not a good one, she is fighting an
internal war through her children’s bodies and lives]. James, who tells the
truth to Grace and expects womanly comfort – he gets revenge for being a man in
on keeping them in the dark, he is removed as the beginning of their escape and
path to adulthood; and then Llew, who has proved deceitful and opportunistic,
is executed by Lia….it’s why those scenes are even sadder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Given their upbringing, the women would react
this way to the men. A very true to life blending of self-defence and pre-emptive
action against a whole group of known aggressors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What they did made perfect sense, in the story. Then men had hurt them - just as they had been brought up to expect. It was why Gwil was treated badly as a little man, too small yet to be of harm, but unloved by the women because he would become One of Them. Sad and needless, his death.<br />
<br />
I keep wanting to call them ‘girls’ as I write, because so much about them was
kept in a state of false childhood dependency by their parents – all those
exercises to make them strong were also a regime to divide and conquer them,
keep them down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sky wasn’t even allowed
to be taught to read; King and Mother saw how quick to respond Lia was getting
and there went her younger sister’s future reading chances.<br />
<br />
It was needless, is what’s so sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the mini cult - where
other ‘damaged women’ used to come till one of them drowned; another killed
herself...medicine and trauma close in effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then the ending, where the sisters brave the outside world – a bit reminiscent
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Truman Show </i>– another story of
someone lied to for life who goes off to see what the real world was like…Or a
reverse <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Picnic at Hanging Rock</i>; the
girls had been living a reality totally real to them, but not the same world a
lot of others were in. So they go off, after one last baptism to take away fear
and that has rebound them together, without the awful parents, off hopefully, ‘without
fear’ to the rest of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
And also without money, passports or a real clue what the world they are going
to is like…I worry. Almost like they were the fabled children raised in the
forest by wolves: it makes you fierce, but can you speak the language of
everyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can anyone communicate with
you? Will you be able to make a place for yourself outside?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I speak as an outsider myself, so I’m
probably projecting.</span></div>
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be said about this book and all the comparisons and links in life now, to come,
in the past – I’m sure more will come to me when I think more (which I will be
doing) – but I came straight here to try and understand what I initially
thought.<br />
<br />
Got a horrible feeling this wonderful dystopia will stay with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a reason I don’t read dystopian
novels – and it’s not just that they are grey in colour, futuristic, usually
mechanised and just depressing…this is the first I’ve read with beaches and
sunlight and birdsong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s because most
of them are horribly plausible, and there’s enough to worry about right here
right now, already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s as if this book
already happened somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is
happening.</span></div>
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<![endif]-->BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-79338114774371548922020-05-24T14:36:00.000+01:002020-05-24T14:36:14.336+01:00Tiny Book Review: Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan
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during Corona lockdown, May 2020. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SPOILERS! Read with caution if you haven't read the book and want to.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Apparently, this shocked the hell out of everyone when it first came out, in 1954, even though it was France (where everyone is just generally much cooler than England!). I haven't yet read the why, because I'm still mulling the actual book, and I didn't want social history right this minute, though I'll look it up later. Personally, I would only be shocked to read this because of its honesty. I could almost describe it as searing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, this is the set-up: Cecile, the heroine sees a life ahead for herself of dissipation and amoralty, because it sounds easy and fun (I'm paraphrasing). She and her father have lived doing whatever they want since her mother died some long while ago - they have enough money, and he is permissive with her. She in turn gets on with her father's mistresses as they come and go because she sees he needs them, like a child with toys. They don't threaten her world with him. She especially likes the current one, Elsa. Then comes Anne, a serious woman, a businesswoman, someone who says things that make you think about how you're living your life, and you suspect she may be right in some of the things she says that don't feel like so much fun. How dare she make you think?! But you like her, sort of...But you like your life before she came more...And then she gets engaged to your father. Story continues...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m a bit annoyed that I read the
novella, then the Introduction, and then came to write this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have come directly here straight
after the book, as the Rachel Cusk introduction (Penguin ediation) threw up so many interesting
ideas and questions that now my head is full of those rather than my own impressions
of the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exactly the same reason I
<i>never </i>go round art exhibits with the tape guides on my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to have my thoughts before I have
someone else’s, or I’ll be hard pressed to separate the two unless I disagree
violently with the guide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Anyway, I loved this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed Cecile’s
acceptance of her own nature, her dislike of being made to think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was partly her youth – there is, I think,
something amoral and selfish in young people, and here it was captured
perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was also in her
something almost neurodivergent – the way she almost turned her love on and
off, the way it was just flashes of ‘radiant moments’ for her, the way she was
caught up in tales and times, and then later felt nothing about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That feels familiar, all of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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I didn’t see coming her desire to get rid of her father’s fiancée working so
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea she’d end up causing
a death by misadventure at the least, after being so Machiavellian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her detached amazement at her own manipulative
ability and how well it all worked – also familiar, but also sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had more layers than she liked to think
she did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think she was a bit dismayed
at how easily lead people were, especially her father’s ex-mistress, Elsa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was wonderfully French, in terms of how
morally sophisticated and/or blase their national stereotype is compared to our
nationally stereotypical stuffy English – I can’t offhand think of any English
books where a father and his daughter go on a seaside holiday with his
mistress, and then his fiancée comes too, and technically it’s just a bit
awkward, that’s all. *Loved it.*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something very down to earth about not making a drama of it all…until
there was a bit of a created drams, then there was that sentence where Cecile
said that in order for she and her father to be inwardly ‘reposeful’ they
needed to be outwardly ‘in ferment’…so I’m overgeneralising like crazy. Also, many
years ago, in a very turbulent situation, my dead ex-husband once suggested an
arrangement very similar and I cried, heartbroken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, being me as I am now, I would have punched his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just not French enough to be cool with
being the live in mistress…<br />
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The whole question of lack of mothers and motherly nurturing and growing up , and where do you learn your 'morals' from – I
didn’t really think of that till I read the Introduction, but it’s applicable comment. Anne was a strange fish too – and the way Cecile only
really saw her properly when she’d broken her [seeing through the cool, almost glacial woman to the secretive, lonely child inside], was a growing up experience that Cecile tried to bury almost
immediately by sinking back into her past life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if her father will end up as Anne prophesied,
spent, a bit pathetic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a very
enjoyable, thought provoking read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could
have said <b>far </b>more, but I just want to let it percolate through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The selfishness of youth, wanting not to grow
up, to admit your actions affect others – that may be what I think the story is
about; not only how Cecile got to be the way she was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10/10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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