Mirror Mask and Gothic Nightmares
Feb. 12th, 2006 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamjarI saw Mirror Mask on Saturday and it looked exactly as something created by Dave McKean and Neil Gaimen should look. Very classic fairy story themes, which is also what you'd expect from the creators, and just as visually stunning as you want (but don't really expect) it to look. What surprised me the most was how funny it was -incredible, yes, you expect, creepy in the right places, but not for it to have as many moments that were laugh-out-loud funny. So yes, any of you that haven't seen,it should. The trailers really don't show how fantastic the movie actually is.
I'm not really capable of giving it a proper critical review, not after one watching which was mostly me going "Oh!" and "hah!", and I suspect that because it does have that strong sense of fairy tale themes going on, some people might not like that (style vs. formula, maybe). Again, without trying to speak spoilers, it has a familiar genre. A bit like Labyrinth, the girl (who may be a girl, too young for something, but may also be, in some way, old enough, or close enough to it for the quest to work) searching for something to save someone, in a way that may or may not connect with reality. There's also that thing about choice- choosing reality or fantasy, choosing to grow up or not, freedom/independence and family/responsibility.
I've got to say that those things work for me on a higher level, but most of the time, that wasn't what I was thinking when I watched it. I was pretty much just exclamation marks and laughing, you know?
Also, the Gothic Nightmares exhibition at the Tate Britain is open from the 15th. I know some of you were interested when I first posted about this, but if you let me know when you're free, we can sort out meeting up.
I'm not really capable of giving it a proper critical review, not after one watching which was mostly me going "Oh!" and "hah!", and I suspect that because it does have that strong sense of fairy tale themes going on, some people might not like that (style vs. formula, maybe). Again, without trying to speak spoilers, it has a familiar genre. A bit like Labyrinth, the girl (who may be a girl, too young for something, but may also be, in some way, old enough, or close enough to it for the quest to work) searching for something to save someone, in a way that may or may not connect with reality. There's also that thing about choice- choosing reality or fantasy, choosing to grow up or not, freedom/independence and family/responsibility.
I've got to say that those things work for me on a higher level, but most of the time, that wasn't what I was thinking when I watched it. I was pretty much just exclamation marks and laughing, you know?
Also, the Gothic Nightmares exhibition at the Tate Britain is open from the 15th. I know some of you were interested when I first posted about this, but if you let me know when you're free, we can sort out meeting up.
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Date: 2006-02-13 05:46 pm (UTC)Amazon has it 30% off. I'll have to get it after I get paid on Friday.