What's the most common chord used in Christian music today?
Gsus.
I really should make better use of my free time.
Anyway over this couple of days I have been rather intrigued by the concept of violence in films, or more specifically whether creative license and the pursuit of underlying themes justify copious amounts of blood and gore in the cinema where three films have caught my imagination - Letters from Iwo Jima, which I saw, Saw, which I have not seen, and 300, which I intend to see.
Now the grenade scene in the first movie, with terrified Japanese soldiers pulling the safeties of their nades, tipping them over their helmets and exploding in a cloud of "wan sui", blood and entrails is easily for me the most poignant moment of the film. Granted, every war film needs at least a fair amount of violence,be it for realism or to get the adrenalin rush pumping, but this was different because the wounds were well, self inflicted. All for Hirohito eh? And "See you at Yasukuni" is the quote of the movie hands down.
Speaking of self inflicted wounds, I haven't seen Saw, and I don't intend to, but yet I'm weirdly fascinated by the whole "how much blood would you shed to stay alive" quandry that forces the audience to mull upon so that they forget that the entire movie, no the entire trilogy is just one extended torture sequence of increasing morbidity and of course amount of blood and guts. It's as if the traps themselves don't cause that much pain and mortal anguish as having to decide to hurt yourself so that you would live. It's as if the horror is doubled when there's no one to apportion blame upon. I see the intellectual premise (if any) of the franchise to be that man will want to stay alive regardless of the pain that he has to undergo. And I think the nausea and fainting reported during test screenings in the UK were probably due to the audience not being able to pull themselves away from the victims' shoes, and being forced to internalize the dilemma that he/she faced. Saw is truly a classic out of the frying pan and into the fire experience, well except this time it's the slightly more grisly 'hand in acid or ribcage torn apart' kinda experience. Eek.
And yesh, 300. M 18 due to violent battle sequences. I don't really trust ratings anyhow though, for how can a board of film censors decide what you can or can not stomach? Ah well. I certainly don't expect 300 to be some fluffy movie where spartan kids with killer abs frolick in the sunset waiting for the dinner bell to ring. The entire film may just be an extended battle sequence for all I know, but hey, with a theme and concept like this, who's complaining. Just look at this:
I haven't truly enjoyed a film since the Lord of the Rings, where traces of its battle scenes and dialogue can be found in this movie. Hmm, maybe somehow I'm indebted to believe that the human spirit will triumph, odds are meant to be overturned, and we're all gonna be fine and dandy in this desolation called IB. And yeah, I have to admit that although the 300 did perish eventually (how could they not?), they sure as hell took down loads of Persians with them.
Madness? This is IB. And we're in for one wild night.
rah.
Delivered at 9:40 PM;
KENNETH
Name:Slumber
Born:16th August
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Him.K.anglo-chinese.music for the passionate.marvel.gunners.
Orange.debate.
long bus rides armed with an eye and a pod.74.
philosophizing.dystopia.
coffee.Rove.Health.Famary.
Buddies.
writing.1984.
expression.Italian food.
journeys.teh-peng.
stream of consciousness.
witty play on words.musing.
accents.the heartrands.performing.
being a closet connossieur.
a point of view.vigorous
interaction with spherical objects.
irony&pathos.yum.
JS.spirit.a girl that would smile