And what are you watching?
Oct. 18th, 2019 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessTo begin with, some Strictly business to wrap up. I forgot to mention the pro dance at the start of the results show, which was yet another dance of two halves with a costume change that was effective on TV, but must have been annoying in the studio. I’ve watched three It Takes Two eps, but not tonight, because I realised that there is no way I’ll catch Saturday’s show live. But, anyway, from what Artem was saying or implying in Choreography Corner, he didn’t see much wrong with Alex’s tango and thought David was overmarked. Strictly Come Bitching was as confuzzled as I was by Mike’s quickstep success.
Last night, I watched Giri/Haji episode 1
It took me a little while to grasp how pulpy this was, even though the second scene (the restaurant drive-by) was extremely pulpy, and that it was okay to react the way I did and not take it overly seriously.
(Sign of my age: I ‘ohh’ed over the Japanese slippers.)
It is basically yakuza trouble comes to London, and a cop who is more compromised than we think coming from Tokyo to find his brother (surely his younger brother) on the down low. So, there’s culture clash.
The other thing about Detective Kendo Mori (just a little grizzled, but hot, played by Takehiro Hira) is that his memories/flashbacks of said brother are all very heightened. The current day action is stylish enough urban thriller, filmed with an eye for composition, but in his memories, the frame ratio changes, camera angles are extreme, it’s dramatically raining, and I really should have been prepped for when a drunk’s story was rendered in animation.
So, there’s that. There’s also Kelly MacDonald (one of the hooks for me) playing a sparky British cop who is having some trouble with a newly released prisoner, and also having sex with a man who didn’t get her sense of humour. There’s Japanese-English rent boy Roy a fun part for the actor, who obviously has no clue that by kind of helping Kendo, he’s steppi ng into even more trouble than he thinks he’s in. At home, there’s a wife picking up all the slack, so she’s allowed to grizzle; a daughter who turned violent on a wannabe rapist (hope he got expelled too. Don’t they have all-girls schools in Tokyo?); a father who seems set on blowing the family’s wooden flat up by smoking while he’s on oxygen; and a mother with a shrine to the dead son who isn’t dead. How I raised my eyebrows at the gangster and cop who didn’t see a body and yet assumed he was dead.
It has v. male POV – female characters interact with each other minimally, and I’m not sure whether to be intrigued or call tokenism at the last female character they introduced, although it’ll be interesting to see what teen with a bob Taki, who looked up to her uncle (who must have devolved from the screwed-up kid to sword-wielding hitman become agent of chaos) does. Whenever it tried to get philosophical, I raised my eyebrows.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a yakuza movie, so I’m not au fait with the lore. It feels like this came by stealth on me via TV. We’ll see. I both wanted to watch the extended trailer and didn’t. From what I saw from peeking, some of the developments are highly unsurprising. But I will happily watch trash in the Thursday 9 pm slot.
Last night, I watched Giri/Haji episode 1
It took me a little while to grasp how pulpy this was, even though the second scene (the restaurant drive-by) was extremely pulpy, and that it was okay to react the way I did and not take it overly seriously.
(Sign of my age: I ‘ohh’ed over the Japanese slippers.)
It is basically yakuza trouble comes to London, and a cop who is more compromised than we think coming from Tokyo to find his brother (surely his younger brother) on the down low. So, there’s culture clash.
The other thing about Detective Kendo Mori (just a little grizzled, but hot, played by Takehiro Hira) is that his memories/flashbacks of said brother are all very heightened. The current day action is stylish enough urban thriller, filmed with an eye for composition, but in his memories, the frame ratio changes, camera angles are extreme, it’s dramatically raining, and I really should have been prepped for when a drunk’s story was rendered in animation.
So, there’s that. There’s also Kelly MacDonald (one of the hooks for me) playing a sparky British cop who is having some trouble with a newly released prisoner, and also having sex with a man who didn’t get her sense of humour. There’s Japanese-English rent boy Roy a fun part for the actor, who obviously has no clue that by kind of helping Kendo, he’s steppi ng into even more trouble than he thinks he’s in. At home, there’s a wife picking up all the slack, so she’s allowed to grizzle; a daughter who turned violent on a wannabe rapist (hope he got expelled too. Don’t they have all-girls schools in Tokyo?); a father who seems set on blowing the family’s wooden flat up by smoking while he’s on oxygen; and a mother with a shrine to the dead son who isn’t dead. How I raised my eyebrows at the gangster and cop who didn’t see a body and yet assumed he was dead.
It has v. male POV – female characters interact with each other minimally, and I’m not sure whether to be intrigued or call tokenism at the last female character they introduced, although it’ll be interesting to see what teen with a bob Taki, who looked up to her uncle (who must have devolved from the screwed-up kid to sword-wielding hitman become agent of chaos) does. Whenever it tried to get philosophical, I raised my eyebrows.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a yakuza movie, so I’m not au fait with the lore. It feels like this came by stealth on me via TV. We’ll see. I both wanted to watch the extended trailer and didn’t. From what I saw from peeking, some of the developments are highly unsurprising. But I will happily watch trash in the Thursday 9 pm slot.
