Velvet Goldmine

[threeplusfire]

I'd forgotten the creepy-weird feel of this movie, and how much it made me want to have blue hair, and Ewan McGregor. After a dinner consisting largely of garlic and iced tea, I'm going to lay here on the couch and watch movies until I fall asleep.

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[reive.livejournal.com]

I'm watching it right now too.
and yeah, it's got this weird combination of prophetic fairytale and distopian future thing going on that makes it almost unbareably claustrophobic. That and the fact that about 8 million thing in it are left hanging open. I've been told the screenplay (which I recently ordered but isn't here yet) solves some of that, but I'm not sure I want it solved.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I don't think the garlic overdose is helping me make any more sense of it this time around. But yeah, all those things left hanging, and unknown... hmm.

[reive.livejournal.com]

So do you think Curt recognizes Arthur or what?
And when Arthur smiles before he drops _the_ question on Tommy Stone, is that smile because he's a journalist and he's about to zing someone or that his childhood hero is still doing his thing, even if it's no longer of interest to him personally?

I do know the hair thing in the flashback with Cecil was actually a mistake (Haynes has admitted to it) but I like to think of it as Cecil not remembering his first encounter with Brian or one of them lying. I mean, it's a film about revisionist history -- I mean just look at Mandy and her goddamn accent (which is the funniest thing ever).

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Gods, that accent. It makes me snicker.

I think Curt does recognize Arthur, but that's jsut a gut feeling.