Flickering Lights
Nov. 5th, 2001 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseSaw another kick ass movie tonight. So far I'm 2 for 2 for the film festival. 3 for 3, really, as the movie we wanted to see yesterday (Amalie) was so good it sold out both days before we bought tickets. Luckily it will be showing in Dupont soon. Tonight's movie was Flickering Lights, a Danish movie. (http://washingtoncitypaper.com/showtimes/FLICKERING_LIGHTS.html http://www.blinkendelygter.dk/ )
I didn't remember what it was going to be about when we went to see it. I'd read the little blurbs about it, but not surprisingly, as with Under The Stars, it didn't really cover much at all.
Basically, it's a group of 4 bad guys. Not quite as bad at being bad as the Legion of Dim on Buffy, ( :) just had to work that in), but they weren't the level of the Usual suspects or anything. So they mess up a big deal, the leader's girlfriend gives him another copy of "Men are from Mars," and tells him that she's met someone new. Then he nearly shoots a friend at his birthday party, which is later crashed by the guys he owes money to.
So the group of them go to carry out a task for the Eskimo, which naturally doesn't work the way they want it too, and they end up deciding that they want to just run away. They're heading to Barcelona, but naturally, things still aren't working out right. Peter, who was shot in the robbery, has to get medical treatment, so they stop to stay at a truly nasty abandoned inn/pub.
And this is clearly the same place as the first couple minutes were, so you know it's significant, but you don't know how--past or present, the intro never comes right out and explains. Which is excellent, as it keeps you guessing. One by one, the guys start--healing, I guess. First Torkild, then Peter--both physically and mentally, then Arne, and finally Stefan. They each go back to the time that lead up to them meeting, in dream sequences of a sort.
The title comes from an Emily Dickinson poem, which I want to find somewhere, as I really liked it in the story. Unfortunately, I can't manage to find it anywhere on line, and don't remember enough of it to search for it more effectively. Basically, it said "our past belongs to blinking lights," and it really...dug into me. I don't even like her poetry but this poem is clinging to me. So if anyone can find a true on line collection of all of her works (not the complete poems, as that's not really. that's like 500 of the 1700.), let me know cause I can't find it anywhere and I really liked it.
They're clever--I think that's what I like the best about these movies. They aren't glide-through-without-paying-attention movies. But it's not as if you have to be a genius to get them or anything, it's just that you have to know things to watch them, and they use all sorts of themes and whatnot that tie everything together without you consciously noticing it. This one had a round four paned window in all of the boys' flashbacks, and a number of quirks that were carried through the story and explained in the flashbacks. It's very cyclical, I suppose. It wasn't fantastic, like Under the Stars was with its seaside carnival, but it still had at times, an otherworldly feel to it. I couldn't tell if it was just because it *is* another world, Denmark, or if it was more than that. A combination of both, I suppose.
I didn't remember what it was going to be about when we went to see it. I'd read the little blurbs about it, but not surprisingly, as with Under The Stars, it didn't really cover much at all.
Basically, it's a group of 4 bad guys. Not quite as bad at being bad as the Legion of Dim on Buffy, ( :) just had to work that in), but they weren't the level of the Usual suspects or anything. So they mess up a big deal, the leader's girlfriend gives him another copy of "Men are from Mars," and tells him that she's met someone new. Then he nearly shoots a friend at his birthday party, which is later crashed by the guys he owes money to.
So the group of them go to carry out a task for the Eskimo, which naturally doesn't work the way they want it too, and they end up deciding that they want to just run away. They're heading to Barcelona, but naturally, things still aren't working out right. Peter, who was shot in the robbery, has to get medical treatment, so they stop to stay at a truly nasty abandoned inn/pub.
And this is clearly the same place as the first couple minutes were, so you know it's significant, but you don't know how--past or present, the intro never comes right out and explains. Which is excellent, as it keeps you guessing. One by one, the guys start--healing, I guess. First Torkild, then Peter--both physically and mentally, then Arne, and finally Stefan. They each go back to the time that lead up to them meeting, in dream sequences of a sort.
The title comes from an Emily Dickinson poem, which I want to find somewhere, as I really liked it in the story. Unfortunately, I can't manage to find it anywhere on line, and don't remember enough of it to search for it more effectively. Basically, it said "our past belongs to blinking lights," and it really...dug into me. I don't even like her poetry but this poem is clinging to me. So if anyone can find a true on line collection of all of her works (not the complete poems, as that's not really. that's like 500 of the 1700.), let me know cause I can't find it anywhere and I really liked it.
They're clever--I think that's what I like the best about these movies. They aren't glide-through-without-paying-attention movies. But it's not as if you have to be a genius to get them or anything, it's just that you have to know things to watch them, and they use all sorts of themes and whatnot that tie everything together without you consciously noticing it. This one had a round four paned window in all of the boys' flashbacks, and a number of quirks that were carried through the story and explained in the flashbacks. It's very cyclical, I suppose. It wasn't fantastic, like Under the Stars was with its seaside carnival, but it still had at times, an otherworldly feel to it. I couldn't tell if it was just because it *is* another world, Denmark, or if it was more than that. A combination of both, I suppose.
