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melancholia

December 26th, 2010 | author: | filed under: moving pictures | 4 comments »

sigh.

i saw true grit yesterday and i’ve been in a coen daze since. this usually happens every time i see a coen-helmed movie (or any beautifully crafted movie, really) for the very first time. their films bring me so much joy, yet they give me bouts of melancholia because i know i can’t live in a world created by their minds. seriously, all i want is to live inside their stories. i want to be an offbeat character with an unusual life story and snappy conversational skills. i want to drown in pitch black humor and march to the beat of a haunting and perfectly curated soundtrack. but unfortunately, my life isn’t a dark&disturbed, roger deakins photographed, canted fantasyland. i have jobs to apply for, grades to earn, animals to rear, and relationships to tend to. i wish i could twinkle my nose like samantha stephens and have real life go away. just for a little while.

i’m off to watch the hudsucker proxy, the man who wasn’t there, and the big lebowski back-to-back-to-back. the only antidote for this daze is massive amounts of cobro consumption until my mind is able to release all this excitement. kinda like treating a snake bite (or is that only in movies?).

4 Comments on “melancholia”

  1. 1 Anna @ D16 said at 9:45 pm on December 26th, 2010:

    Oh god, I’m so glad you liked it!! If the snow ever stops, we’re going to see it this week.

    I need to email you. <3

  2. 2 mari said at 4:24 pm on December 27th, 2010:

    yes! go see it! i really don’t think you’ll be disappointed. it’s not nearly as intense as the trailer made it out to be, but it was everything i hoped for/expected: coen humor, pathos, killer soundtrack, a+ acting, etc — and that’s good enough for me! :)

  3. 3 hilary said at 5:09 pm on December 27th, 2010:

    Just back from True Grit. I’m bit.
    Lovely writing about movies – too few people care these days and bother knowing who Roger Deakins is. Did you see Black Swan? or Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? re-dux. And did you hear the dude say abide from his horse?
    So glad to meet you – I migrated over from Door Sixteen. I’d hire you if I could but my clients all seem to have disappeared.

  4. 4 mari said at 12:50 pm on December 28th, 2010:

    thanks, hilary! i’ve seen all of those films aside from black swan. for whatever reason, it usually takes me forever and a day to watch the newer critically acclaimed films. i didn’t watch there will be blood until last year!

    nice to meet you, too! and i hope your clients reappear soon!

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