More Before and After

For CCS, doppelganger photo before and after.

Now to watch The Dissapearance of Alice Creed

I should be finishing ccs but I dried up with that at lunchtime. I'll still have referencing to do when I get the word count. Why do we have to reference, it implies a lack of trust. Who cares about research so much, if you were handed a time machine no questions asked would you give a shit how it was developed, maybe but there would be far more important things to ask...

Begins with the creepiest episode of changing rooms ever. Talk about organisation, stress seems to be getting to the younger one. Twisted. I like that everyone is playing everyone else.

Finally I watch Factotum

It's been sitting with the rest of the DVDs for ages so now I'm finally watching it. Based of the book by Charles Bukowski and presumably Bukowski's life as a writer. I like that he bullshits his way through all the interviews. He does what would be the most boring jobs if they kept him for any length of time. The introduction to the other writer in the pickle factory office is ridiculously awkward. "And then I met Janet. I bought her a drink and she gave me her phone number. Three days later I moved into her apartment." I like that instead of stealing a car they just take the cigarettes from it. He sees there was a fire and just goes back to sleep. Janet provokes his violence at the racetrack and seems to enjoy it.She didn't last. The new woman seems obsessed with murder. Why doesn't his mother sit at the table with him and his father? Nice job of getting thrown out of his parents home. And then Janet is back in the picture. "I came home one night and she had moved in with me." I like that he gives her his shoes so she doesn't have to walk in heels. I like his friend from the daily work centre. There's nothing climactic about the end but for some reason it doesn't seem like a bad thing.

Protests In Egypt Slideshow

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Watching La Jetee

The technology used in La Jetee seems more reminiscent of that from Source Code than the time machine in Twelve Monkeys. The climax of the film seems the most obvious lift.

Sans Soleil has the weirdest narrative formula I've seen, it's strange to know so little about the two main characters and so much more about the people they've observed briefly. I really hate the scene of the giraffe being shot, the struggle and the blood are horrific. - It says at the end the scene was taken from Daniele Tessier's Death of a Giraffe.

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