describe myself in cinematic bits

I just watched the movie “The Constant Gardener” last night, and not only did I see myself all over Tessa’s character, but I saw my hubby in Ralph Fiennes character, Justin Quayle.

There’s a scene where she’s demanding he stop the car, so they can make a difference to one person’s life, but it’s dangerous, and he’s saying “Tessa… please”

I swear. I’ve seen that worried look on my hubby’s face…the “oh god, here we go” look.

Plus, I don’t doubt that someone will off me one day because I get mad enough to try to bring down their corporation.

“It’s useful being top banana in the shock department.”—Holly Golightly

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From “Spirited Away”

The little girl inside me totally identifies with this movie and I can’t put my finger on just why, but I’ve watched it like 100 times.

Within Lost in Translation, this same inability to convey emotion verbally is continually made evident. When Charlotte is upset with Bob, she cannot express this anger verbally. Rather, the two sit silently across from one another at a Japanese restaurant, a pot of boiling water dividing them in the frame. The only noise we hear is the bubbling and simmering of the water, the steam surrounding the characters’ heads like a shroud. As a result, the silence in conjunction with a seemingly simple pot of water take on important connotations. Together they represent the unspoken tension between the two characters, literally just simmering under the surface. Even when Bob and Charlotte say good-bye at the end of their trip, neither one can fully communicate the feelings they have for one another and end up simply saying “OK … bye” in a sort of weary defeat. As Coppola explains: ”...[The film] is about misunderstandings between people and places….There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway’” (as quoted in Thompson, 1).

Very language oriented…cowardly…clueless.

Sometimes, that’s me.

_{as: Batou}

_{Ghost in the Shell: Innocence}

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as: Sam Lowry (on left)

‘Welcome to Information Retrieval’

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

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as: Hal 9000

“_I’ve got the greatest
ethusiasm for the mission,
Dave._”

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as: Ferris Bueller

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as: Dr. Strangelove

_{“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?”}

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