I always get all silly and over excited over this time of year, award shows grab and fascinate me - ridiculous amounts of entertainment. I love to research the hotly tipped and nominated for the shortlist of each award and view 'em to see what all the fuss is about.
So, a bezzie of mine wisely illegally downloaded an amazing copy of the tipped for the Oscars ballet thriller Black Swan and this week my housemates and I had a bit of a girls night in to watch it - 'mazin. I have to admit I was ridiculously hyped up for the film, due to all the awards buzz that has completely surrounded the movies release my expectations were built HIGH. Expectations were met - Natalie Portman deserves the Oscar as does absolute fitcake Mila Kunis (yunno the brunette from Forgetting Sarah Marshall that every girl wanted to be and every guy wanted to be on?) who was as good if not better than Portman.
With every film along with the praise comes the criticism, It's a shame the films been shammed so much for the poor portrayal of ballerinas, is it not clear that Portman's character isn't representing every single ballerina out there, she's simply portraying a schizophrenic who's symptoms are triggered by her hobby/job/life? The ballet doesn't conjure the schizophrenia, yes Portman's character falls far into deep with the role she plays within Swan Lake and therefore this triggers the schizophrenia, but some critics have simply said that the films basically portraying all ballerinas as schizophrenics with eating disorders, when it's in fact the characters issues in her mind placing themselves to something in her life so they are triggered, the problems were always there, they were just waiting for the character to be placed in a convenient situation in her life (her taking on the role of the swan princess) for the problems to start showing themselves and for her to be involved in something that enables them to be triggered.
The film doesn't deserve the criticism it's gathering and I believe the critics are being narrow minded with their perspective of the film (meow!).
Last weekend a trip to the cinema was in order to watch 127 Hours - please, if you have not seen this film, you MUST, I can not encourage you enough, it will not disappoint! I preferred it to Black Swan, which is simply down to the directors and the way each went about their films, I have always favored Danny Boyle (127 Hours) over Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) due to his hugely fabulous films such as The Beach (you all should have seen that by now, right?) so favoring 127 Hours over Black Swan didn't come as a huge shock to me. The filming and screen play of it is completely spot on and totally fast paced and original, the music is absolutely fantastic and no other choice of soundtrack could fit the film any better than it already does, James Franco is AMAZING (no complaints about watching him for 90 or so minutes), the critics spoke total sense with this film when they said that this is by far his best role and performance yet - couldn't agree more. I feel as if I should stay loyal to my country and root for Colin Firth to win the best actor nom for the Oscars, but heck I hope Franco wins first prize! 'Mazin.
p.s. Franco cutting his arm off is gross.
The final film I'll quickly mention which won the Golden Globe for best picture and took away a few more along the way is The Social Network, heaps of encouragement to buy this on DVD, I came out of the cinema in ore. I have no criticism to give, only a piece of advice: you MUST concentrate, very fast moving fast pace film, trust me you don't want to miss a second of it.
If it was up to me, the Oscars would belong to the three masterpieces mentioned above, hands down.
With every film along with the praise comes the criticism, It's a shame the films been shammed so much for the poor portrayal of ballerinas, is it not clear that Portman's character isn't representing every single ballerina out there, she's simply portraying a schizophrenic who's symptoms are triggered by her hobby/job/life? The ballet doesn't conjure the schizophrenia, yes Portman's character falls far into deep with the role she plays within Swan Lake and therefore this triggers the schizophrenia, but some critics have simply said that the films basically portraying all ballerinas as schizophrenics with eating disorders, when it's in fact the characters issues in her mind placing themselves to something in her life so they are triggered, the problems were always there, they were just waiting for the character to be placed in a convenient situation in her life (her taking on the role of the swan princess) for the problems to start showing themselves and for her to be involved in something that enables them to be triggered.
The film doesn't deserve the criticism it's gathering and I believe the critics are being narrow minded with their perspective of the film (meow!).
Last weekend a trip to the cinema was in order to watch 127 Hours - please, if you have not seen this film, you MUST, I can not encourage you enough, it will not disappoint! I preferred it to Black Swan, which is simply down to the directors and the way each went about their films, I have always favored Danny Boyle (127 Hours) over Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) due to his hugely fabulous films such as The Beach (you all should have seen that by now, right?) so favoring 127 Hours over Black Swan didn't come as a huge shock to me. The filming and screen play of it is completely spot on and totally fast paced and original, the music is absolutely fantastic and no other choice of soundtrack could fit the film any better than it already does, James Franco is AMAZING (no complaints about watching him for 90 or so minutes), the critics spoke total sense with this film when they said that this is by far his best role and performance yet - couldn't agree more. I feel as if I should stay loyal to my country and root for Colin Firth to win the best actor nom for the Oscars, but heck I hope Franco wins first prize! 'Mazin.
p.s. Franco cutting his arm off is gross.
The final film I'll quickly mention which won the Golden Globe for best picture and took away a few more along the way is The Social Network, heaps of encouragement to buy this on DVD, I came out of the cinema in ore. I have no criticism to give, only a piece of advice: you MUST concentrate, very fast moving fast pace film, trust me you don't want to miss a second of it.
If it was up to me, the Oscars would belong to the three masterpieces mentioned above, hands down.
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