THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is one of my favorite movies this year.
So is THERE WILL BE BLOOD.
But...and there is always a but when one is a critical and precise Mercury in Virgo...if you don't know your astrology, well, then...go back to school.
I loved these movies. THE DIVING BELL is beautiful. It is a painting come to life, and tells the difficult story with confidence and panache.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD is filled with incredible characters and relationships that evolve in unexpected ways. And although I felt the alcoholic diatribes that made up the end of the movie should have been left on the cutting room floor, certainly that is when all that blood finally spilled.
However, I have been distracted by two teeny tiny little items with each movie. Minuscule issues, I assure you. But enough so that unless I share, I fear every issue I have ever had with any movie (don't get me started on celluloid families looking nothing alike--)may start to keep me awake at night.
THE DIVING BELL--The movie is in French, with subtitles, and the alphabet is used extensively. When the letters are sounded out, and Jean Do blinks to pick one, the therapist repeats the letter as she writes it down. I was losing my mind over the fact that the letter chosen would be spoken in French, but an entirely different letter would appear in the subtitles. "J" would be spoken. "I" would appear boldly and confidently below. I squirmed. "E" would be spoken. "A" would appear below.
As I became louder in my indignation at the blatant errors, my friend sitting next to me finally hissed--"The translation is occurring in English, for god sake." So that when Jean Do was saying "Je" meaning "I", we were shown "I".
Oh. All right. I rest chagrined. But be forewarned, in case you too have Mercury in Virgo.
Per THERE WILL BE BLOOD--am I the only one who reads the Gothic font that was chosen for the advertising as THERE MILL BE BLOOD? Have a look. The "W" in the word WILL looks like an "M". I can't believe there hasn't been consternation over this. At least a memo or two--
THERE MILL BE BLOOD--
There's not a mill to be seen in this movie....
Precision isn't always a good thing, in spite of Sister Josepha Kennedy telling us it was in fifth grade math class.
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