I’m not remembering it well enough to answer confidently, but I seem to remember interpeting their connection as a commentary on greedy, shark-like behavior being a kind of “deadening,” zombie-like life? That may be way off base…
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Such an excellent story!
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NSFW…
I don’t… 
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Trailers can be deceptive, but that looks to me like another iteration of “the trouble with [so many depictions of interracial] friendship.”
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Could be…
I will reserve my judgement until I see the follow-up film “The Girl Is Mine.”
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Speaking of troubling trailers, this looks like absolute blasphemy, and I can’t believe Andy Serkis is behind this. Please tell me this is some kind of movie equivalent of a pump fake, and they’re actually going to make Animal Farm and not whatever ridiculousness this seems to be.
Ugh. I am so disappointed in Serkis:
Serkis has never been shy about the fact that he intended to soften Orwell’s often-bleak fable a bit, the better to get kids watching. More than a decade ago, he told reporters “We are not going to handle the politics in a heavy-handed fashion,” instead making a more “emotionally centered” version of the story.
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I can’t wait to see a heartwarming lesson on the meaning of family, the way Orwell would surely have intended if only he had thought of it. Maybe they can finally fix one of the major gaps, that we never actually get to see the compassionate veterinarian looking after Boxer. They’d be a great character to show how much some humans care for the animals after all!
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I can’t imagine Orwell would take kindly to his story being changed as a means to make it more “marketable”
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You know how you handle the politics in Animal Farm in “a heavy handed way”? You take them out.
Taking the politics in Animal Farm to the abattoir is like taking Boxer to abattoir.
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Or let the CIA alter the politics as they did with the Halas & Batchelor version.
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We have completed the whole Twin Peaks media - both new and old series and Fire Walk with Me. I am available to discuss!
So, my thoughts on the second series: Man, it rocked!
Did it make a lot of coherent sense? No, but the lighting, the sounds, the sets, the acting. It was all amazing. A couple of the episodes were incredibly, ethereally beautiful. I loved the bands at the end of every episode. I loved Dougie. I loved Diane. I love how David Lynch wasn’t afraid to mix the cheap, stupid laughs in with the surreal.
I remember watching Eraserhead on VHS, and seeing some of the first Twin Peaks episodes before it got shuffled around to odd times on network TV, and later Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. I was never the biggest fan of Lynch, but appreciated that he was doing something different.
But now, I really see his vision and appreciate what he was doing. I think being older and understanding that truth is not always linear or coherent, how he was speaking to the subconscious mind, and having also a knowledge of audiovideo as a format, I enjoyed seeing how he took simple sound and video effects to stir emotion. I especially like how he played with the sense of the evocative, nostalgia, and revisiting the past.
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I read that not having actually watched the second (I think you mean third, but the second… well it was a thing that happened. I think) and there’s nothing spoilery there.
Yeah, Lynch doesn’t make rational daytime sense and if you try to fit his stuff into that it will be frustrating. I think you’re right, as we get older we are more comfortable with the idea that stuff doesn’t make sense, that there isn’t always cause and effect, that it’s not linear and inevitable but emergent and inscrutable.
That makes Lynch an easier watch. Just wish he’d laid off the smokes.
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Confusing British and American uses of series, perhaps?
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I watched Nickel Boys, incredibly moving (and a shocking true story), technically amazing (which helped make it so powerful, instead of being just for show). It took some getting used to at first, but now I can’t recommend it enough. Excellent acting too, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor especially sometimes stole the show.
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Well, it was the 3rd season but the second series, as the first series in my book was the original 2 seasons.
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Oh, I understood.
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