Yesterday I had to do with two things in quick succession that turned out to be, simply put, bullshit.
The film The Box
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The Guin Saga The Seven Magi Ronin Manga of
Film The Box
70s. Christmas. American middle class family. American middle-class house (house with garden, giant Christmas tree, upholstered chairs and doilies everywhere, always on TV on the sitcom laugh dall'idiozia registered and absolute).
Father: I think about 35 years, looking a bit 'boyish man not beautiful but interesting perhaps. Worked at NASA, has always dreamed of going to Mars to find out if there are new forms of life. Good relationship with colleagues, caring for his wife (prepares an orthotic for his foot maimed as a Christmas present), teases and teases a bit 'but eventually follows what she says, adored by his son, with whom shares leisure hours in a cellar full of pseudo-objects collected by him. Lead to some 'child, the more' reckless action that led to the weighted reflection.
Mother: beautiful, very stylish in their care person with dignity in everything she does, a professor of philosophy (or literature) in high school, has a crippled foot that hurts a lot and you shame, but that does not hesitate to show the class when a student rather than the mental shift causes accusing her of being afraid. With his son relationship so strong but not authoritarian, and e 'closely linked. Loves her husband and esteem, but you see I consider it a bit 'less strong and more of her' child. It 's the emotional pillar of the family.
Son on 11 or 12 years, a little 'arrogantello but good, eternally with the application or until it touches the tip of the tongue. With mother speaks as an equal with the father does not talk much but he spends a lot of time together in the cellar, and sees it as a great scientist. Protective of parents, rather than awake and alert but not enough to understand what is happening. Attends the same school where her mother works.
The family receives an odd-looking wooden box from a certain Mr Stuart. On the box, protected by a glass dome that opens with a small key, there is' one button: push to enter into possession of one million dollars, while an unknown person dies. Offer is 'valid for 24 hours, after which' the box is withdrawn and given to strangers who will be 'made the same bid. Talking to someone else of this agreement or find out more about 'Mr. Stuard will void the offer.
The dilemma of having that money provided for the death of another human being and' heavy but the fact that despite the appearance of the wealthy to make ends meet and 'always a bit' risky, the need 'to the foot of the operation for his wife, and the withdrawal of the scholarship for children of parents teachers (revocation could have been caused on purpose to put the family under pressure in view of the choice) mean that in the end the wife presses the button. The next day Mr. Stuard arrives, handing over the money and goes taking away the box.
In understanding the whole story, until the decision all'arrivare / urge to press the button, the husband is the skeptic inconvincibile, disassemble and replace the box, makes fun of his wife for believing in Mr. Stuard, provocative questions but does not ever put in a decisive manner or serious. The wife does this, and even if it 'clearly has the support of her husband in this, we see that tackling the issue with him in a different way: real financial problems they worry about a friend, while her husband talk about vague things (such as the established 'family) or dreams (such as a trip or moving house), for example, without telling him of the revocation of the scholarship (at least not to me 'it seems). At the end press the button, almost on impulse, with an expression on his face and that 'given at the same time, guilty, and terrified. Accepts the rules of the game, and follows in the play.
Taken away the box and finished the game, the husband suddenly wakes up from his apathy, and decides that he must prove something: a half ago scene to Mr. Stuart, took the plate of the machine and begins to investigate, shake and runs here and there ', with no regard to the danger which threatens to put his family.
The wife speaks often with Mr. Stuart, and as she is in a position of inferiority 'and inability' to react, he is always treated with respect and dignity '. Knowing how it feels to have a body that hurts so 'time, the fact that man has a large burn on his face that took away half' face makes you feel affection for him. He trusts what he says and try to discuss in reasonable solutions without appeal or aid impossible as does her husband.
(If my description of his wife is too covered with sugar, and 'why' so 'in the film. Personally bother me all that sugar, but if I'm going to criticize not end up more' to tell. And still escapes me what I want to criticize)
But the game is not 'finished,' cause the choice to get the money at the expense of the death of another person has a consequence: the end of the film, the husband and 'forced to kill his wife with a pistol, to make them expiate the guilt of having pressed button, and then because 'this is the only way in which his son, and that' was kidnapped and made him blind and deaf, could return to normal. The money will be 'payable to the child and will be delivered at the time of age', while the father will end up 'in jail. Even here there 'to make a choice: parents can live with the money and keep the child in those conditions. Who kills his wife alone is not 'allowed to die to force the hand of her husband. His wife's death coincides with the button pressed by another pair (note that the facts of the three cases seen in the film, and ' ALWAYS wife in press).
That 'broadly part of history.
Completely Out of Party Like A Balcony
The body of Mr. Stuart and 'a container that houses a Martian and you' installed after the man was struck dead by a lightning. The Martian is doing experiments on human beings in the world, for the presence of so-called 'coefficient of altruism': If checked, or if a sufficient number of persons shall press' button, the Martians will delay the destruction of the human species. To carry out his experiments, and to prevent any obstruction not required (such as husbands who play at being detectives), he uses an impressive number of people from which it takes control and makes it act like puppets (a sign that is controlling and the 'bleeding from the nose). So at some point the film becomes a series of
- haunted faces that appear suddenly at the window,
; - automatons who follow you silently without saying a word,
- sudden change of view from person possessed a normal person,
- revelations in a state of trance,
- shooting from the POV of a person in the shadows and light that seems ready to attack the
protagonists
- disturbing clues and connections unlikely.
All this and 'very well done, at least according to me: I found myself jumping from his chair repeatedly even though I now understood that
1. As the tirassero, there would be cmq been splatter scenes' cause was not the spirit of the film,
2. all this had absolutely no sense.
Not content with what ', the writer has thought of adding water translucent space-time portals, and a' choice of the three ports' proposal to her husband so 'out of nothing (and a' salvation, the other and are nonscelta damnation), with its consequent travel package new age in the tunnel of light blinding glimpse of the afterlife + '+ return nell'aldiqua, all seasoned with cristianoidi improbable theories about heaven, purgatory and forgiveness.
So in the end the ethical reflection on choice and press the button 'was completely drowned in a conspiracy of aliens, and its resolution of that choice in a murder with the light of heaven in her eyes.
Yuck.
This in my opinion was not necessary. In the short space of time that there 'was in the delivery of money and the massive appearance of improbable turns of plot, it was obvious that the psyche of the two was already' yielding to the weight and the implications of what they had done , and fear to know that maybe one day they too could die for someone else's choice. Just follow the thread them '. Probably would have been psychologically claustrophobic and haunting, and perhaps a bit 'boring, but if the purpose of the film was to make the viewer reflect on the dilemma posed by the choice (and for this purpose was,' cause otherwise the film would not have been so set down 'beginning'), so the identification with the characters and ethical reflection would have a more 'humanly realistic resolutions and without shell.
Or at least without ALIENS as a resolution of convenience. And sorry if
and 'little.
Another element 'was put them' not develop it later, I presume, therefore, only to put some 'anxiety: the student provocateur who has forced his wife to show the maimed foot. This crazy-looking guy and moves from stalker, or at least with a strongly misogynist amount of unresolved hatred for the mother figure, then appears at the wedding reception for relatives of the couple, so it can 'be a nephew or a distant cousin. In the first part of the film you see a lot, seems to know something, you do not know if it relates to the box or with regard to human folly. Then he disappears and you do not understand why '. The best joke of the movie 'his: When confronted by the husband and asks if' so much fun to torture the people who suffer, he says 'no, not' fun, and 'tragic'.
Guin Saga The Seven Magi, the Ronin Manga
'Pearl Idiot' a different kind, yesterday I had seen in comic books that came out on the third and final volume and I bought it, not for but just love to see how it ended (and by now I had the other two, so ...).
If already 'after reading the two previous volumes was highly doubtful, but somehow hopeful that the resolution of the story would have been satisfactory, the reading of that book showed me the destruction of that well little that was good before.
In short, the story
Guin and 'a man with a leopard head, the formidable talents as a warrior, you do not remember anything of his past or how it woke up one day with the head of a leopard. His journey to discover himself and 'told in a series of light novels and fantasy Kaoru Kurimoto' s a really good story. This long series and 'was really an event in Japan (part of the inspiration for Berserk Kentaro Miura has had to be here ... then he put his perversion and violence).
The Seven Magi and 'What If an original story, and then falls after the end of 26 episodes of the animated series, and after approximately 17 volume.
Here Guin and 'King of the Kingdom of Cheiron, thanks to Sylvia wanted to marry the princess from the king her father, after realizing that Guin was the perfect king for the kingdom. The princess is not 'at all happy with the marriage disgusted by Guin, made him promise not to touch' ever, but the door than in public. It 's a bit bitchy, and perhaps an attempt to more insight' seriously would have done wonders. Her huge boobs can be glimpsed in the guise and are completely detached from the rest of the body, resting them two balls', turns in her nightgown and it seems that in the rest of the body have inflated with a syringe at strategic points.
Guin proves a good king, and behave kindly with his wife even though her refusal makes him suffer. When the kingdom is invaded by a plague epidemic that pushes subjects to perform healing rituals based on the blood of healthy people, Guin goes in the alley of the city 'occupied by magicians to seek a remedy. Peep the inevitable companions: a and 'a petty thief / pimp a bit' scemotto that three-quarters of the story is comic caricature, and the other 'from one scantily clad dancer and the eighth in a bra, which seeks to conceal his role as a 'rest for the eyes or dell'affaticat Lett hours 'capacity through marysuistiche' sensitive. Once you know that Guin did not lie down next to the royal consort, the gentle maiden never loses an opportunity to prove not only a underling devoted to the king as it did before, even a compliant female to male. Time three minutes, and appears on the third element which confirms that this is' a shonen manga: Black Witch. Women's breasts by even more 'of the previous enormous, dressed in a loincloth and a variety of golden jewels that emphasize what' that there 'no need to stress further, and' a chaste virgin to date and is the 'holding' cause awaiting the arrival of a hero 'worthy of potergliela give without shame. To convince Guin and that 'he is the hero' worth, repeatedly tries to take off what little she's wearing and rubbing in every way imaginable and everything imaginable.
But all this, a yaoi fan who since the discovery of the manga and 'have come to terms with fanservices a must in shonen manga (fanservices which also never prevented from seeing the yaoi where CERTAINLY C & rsquo ; ERA XP) everything ' and 'a dettagliuccio negligible, a' trick stage 'at most', whose apparent function leaves still puzzled about the capacity 'of such intellectual shonen, which pay out pennies flower drawn with these trivial mezzucci.
A rapid succession of nasty monsters, magicians filthy much, wise, travel-size timeless apocalyptic prophecies, conspiracies about conspiracies. Who may also have effect, but everything 'so fast that it looks more like' a crazy ride that a well-constructed plot. Anyway in the end it turns out that Guin and 'the pivot of the universe (Such as Walt Disney's Hercules), and Sylvia and 'possessed by a demon who has awakened his bad side.
Guin, as his pecs are a little 'to highlight the disproportionate and' a true warrior, and though it is made much more 'dull as the original (time goes on to say,' I am a warrior, I clear up problems with my sword '..' This is a problem I can solve my sword? '...' This is a problem I can solve my sword? & rsquo ; ... 'This is a problem I can solve my sword?'), I said, despite all this, puts us all to deal with the avalanche that happens to him, including the revelation that it ' he who caused the plague that has claimed so 'many innocent victims in the kingdom.
Moreover, despite everyone, absolutely everyone, remember that the nail does not beat yet should (something that would get anyone to alarming levels of frustration towards the better half '), despite various attempts and decided to seductiveness, and in spite of the behavior hostile and disappointed of the bride, Guin for the first two volumes seems sincerely attached to her, determined to save and build a human relationship together. Clearly, and 'The Warrior Protector infinitely strong, so his view is reflected in her keep her locked in a room or entrust it to his subordinate (especially when she turns to murder people in the castle), but short, and that'. The last time they meet, it seems that she is a bit 'loose and is beginning to take him ... then he leaves (as well as dancer, pimp / thief and magician so dirty but so wise) to try yet another magician evil.
And this point the story goes all the way to remengo.
We have a new 'rapid succession of nasty monsters, magicians filthy much, wise, travel-size timeless apocalyptic prophecies, conspiracy plots on' more 'field in the air than the last.
Witch Black We tried again, then his soul is (finally) sucked, and there 'should soften a flashback about his sad life, but it' s done too bad 'cause you understand something.
The pimp / thief turns out to be Super Villain, evil wizard magician that most 'evil and he never' saw. Attempts to absorb the force of Guin, but the dancer saves the king and Super Villain withdraws, leaving the body of the pimp / thief who returns to be the first speck of.
At this point, and no sign of 'made on the fate of the princess, so there are only soldiers but so happy that the king has restored order.
Guin And what does last thing? Grab the romantic dancer and brings on his horse, with her eyes' there really was hoping more, 'Yay!' and the story ends here.
Now, ok, well we finish the story that begins with the dancer, but some put the first hint. After two volumes that the leads 'Sylvia here, Sylvia of the' do not touch me Sylvia 'is the scene is not really there' in the sky will 'in earth, nor' in any other dimension.
Because you already knew 'that all the drama on the fate and future of the kingdom ended nicely, that was like the only thing a bit' interesting to see how it ended.
Yuck 2.
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