im a child of eden...

War of the worlds.
Tom Cruise
Dakota Fanning
Some other guy who looks a lot like he could be Tom Cruise's son.

Alien invasion.
Honestly, nothing cheesy about it.

What this movie does so freakishly well is to highlight the selfish desperation of human nature. The hideousness of of fear and the way it permeates human beings and drives us to horrible, horrible things. And yet, still out of that come moments of what australian popular legend has dubbed 'mateship', a concept I love, but i think they could have picked a word that had a little more weight to it, but oh well.

But overwhelming it, so often, is the unstoppable tidal wave of agony, the coming darkness, the approaching doom, unstoppable.
Fear.

People talk on and on about the power of love, 'you cannot track it, and you cannot break it with a thousand swords'. But honestly, looking at the nature of human beings...

So often it is fear that is hardest to fight. It grips you by the veins with cold hard hands of menace and we are paralysed.

Two options, freeze or run for your friggin life. And you'll only know if you're running the right way until its too late.


Sorry, I shouldn't write so pessimisticl, but I'm watching the war of the friggin worlds lol, and theres been no happy ending yet, I'm pretty sure it ends ok, I think we have the audio book (used to freak the living daylights out of me listening to it in the dark when i was like, 10 lol).
But yeah, its just at the point where Tom Cruise asks his daughter to sing a lullbay to herself as he blindfolds her, while he goes to deal with the guy who's going totally bonkers and gonna get them all killed, as the music builds up and you can hear all the crap above, and the red weed spreads and....

God Dakota Fanning must be messed up.
No wonder she was so good in new moon lol.

If you really love christmas...

love, actually.

no other movie can make me laugh and cry so much in such a short space of time.

'Tell me, if you were in my position, what would you do?'
'What position is that?'
'Imagine your husband bought a gold necklace, and come Christmas gave it to somebody else...'
'Oh, Karen...'
'Would you wait around to find out if it's just a necklace, or if it's sex and a necklace, or if, worst of all, it's a necklace and love? Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?'
'Oh, God. I am so in the wrong. The classic fool!'
'Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me, and you've made the life I lead foolish, too!'


oh gosh...
tearful, seriously tearful stuff.

That's the thing about that movie...it doesn't all end happy.
Like the chick with the mentally disabled brother, who calls her all the time. she picks him over the love of her life and she goes to go see him on christmas eve or whatever it is...
and he tries to hit her... he says the nurses are trying to kill him, and he tries to hit her.
That story doesn't end happy.

And the married woman with the adulterous husband. like, he doesn't actually sleep with the chick, but it becomes an emotional thing you know, he buys her stuff for christmas, flirts and whatnot, but its so incredibly incredibly sad...

That joni mitchell song plays that says 'i really don't know love at all', i think its called clouds...
but its damn sad...

....