movies

In amongst all the weekend ferret drama, I did watch two movies, Repo: The Genetic Opera and Bright Future.  Loved Repo--it's not like it's a good movie but it is definitely an awesome movie and I very much applaud the creators for making it happen.  All the casting was perfect.  And I loved the background detail of Victorian-style mourning behavior, with the paintings and holographs of the deceased wife everywhere, even the daughter's cameo necklace.  Bright Future was perplexing but enjoyable.  I thought watching it that perhaps it would make much more sense to me if I were Japanese, but in watching the making of featurette, it seemed that I did get all the intended messages.  It was interesting to hear the lead actor say it was a relief when filming was done and he could stop being that character, because I could never quite figure out how I felt about the character myself.  Confusing, but affecting and in a somewhat hard way enjoyable.  Beautiful jellyfish footage, too.  Also in the making of featurette the director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, meditated a bit on the lack of real difference between making a documentary and making fiction.  I liked what he had to say; with his style of directing, which was hands-off and oblique, many things were left up to chance, and so the film did really record things that were unscripted and undirected.  I'm not expressing this as eloquently as Kurosawa did, but I found it exciting and intriguing.
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