The Girl from Monday
Jul. 21st, 2005 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI am so hip. I saw "The Girl from Monday" on DVD, which is unavailable except from Netflix (for two weeks). A few people have seen it before me at various film festivals, but I am hipper than everyone else. (I only mention this because actually I am the opposite of hip.)
This is Hal Hartley’s latest film, a sci fi thing about a rigid totalitarian society where everything is under the control of power-hungry businessmen rather than, say, power-hungry kings or power-hungry popes. Sadly, the rampant consumerism didn’t seem much different from consumerism in today’s United States. One exception was high school. I admit, I haven’t been in a high school in probably a decade, but I still bet the representative high school in this movie was much scarier than typical high schools today. They definitely had some fun with that. Even before the bad guys hatched their evil plot.
Another exception is the way money was handled. Very interesting.
I also found the main character’s eyebrows interesting. They were very expressive and capable of independent movement when necessary.
No stilted dialog in this one and more action than usual in a Hal Hartley movie; we are shown things directly or via monolog. Unfortunately, we are shown them via the blurry-movement camera technique Hartley uses in "The Book of Life."
I don’t feel that any of the characters need to be from outer space for this plot, but that was harmless. There is at least one plot problem involving shopping in the middle of an urgent mission, but given the culture, maybe there should have been even more shopping than there was.
Overall, an interesting, fun movie. Three stars.
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This is Hal Hartley’s latest film, a sci fi thing about a rigid totalitarian society where everything is under the control of power-hungry businessmen rather than, say, power-hungry kings or power-hungry popes. Sadly, the rampant consumerism didn’t seem much different from consumerism in today’s United States. One exception was high school. I admit, I haven’t been in a high school in probably a decade, but I still bet the representative high school in this movie was much scarier than typical high schools today. They definitely had some fun with that. Even before the bad guys hatched their evil plot.
Another exception is the way money was handled. Very interesting.
I also found the main character’s eyebrows interesting. They were very expressive and capable of independent movement when necessary.
No stilted dialog in this one and more action than usual in a Hal Hartley movie; we are shown things directly or via monolog. Unfortunately, we are shown them via the blurry-movement camera technique Hartley uses in "The Book of Life."
I don’t feel that any of the characters need to be from outer space for this plot, but that was harmless. There is at least one plot problem involving shopping in the middle of an urgent mission, but given the culture, maybe there should have been even more shopping than there was.
Overall, an interesting, fun movie. Three stars.
(This journal entry brought to you courtesy of the blog buddy system. The problem does not lie with your set.)
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on 2005-07-21 08:58 pm (UTC)