Montage

 I do, from time to time.  Obviously in films that have been made using a language that I don't know (that is every language but English,  I am sad to say).  But have you found yourself turning on the subtitles when you watch something that is in your native language? Apparently, we are not alone. This is an excellent doco that I found on Youtube, that I think may go some way to answer why we need to.

Where do I start with this one?   Again I don't want to give too much away, but this is a film that will stay with me for a very long time, a very, very long time.  I do not go to the movies very much, and for someone with a BA  double majoring in Media and Screen Culture, I know the irony.  I love watching films, I especially love movies that are about the human experience.  And this one is certainly about the human experience.   Now, before I go forward I want to warn spoilers may be lurking ahead. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)  is set in 1923 and from the island of Inisherin, you can see the impact of the civil war across the bay. (which the film narrative is a metaphor for). The film starts as a comedy, albeit a dark comedy. But to me, this film at about the halfway point turns into a horror film, with Colm (Brendan Gleeson) as the chief protagonist in the storyline. From about the halfway point I was sitting on the edge of my seat jus...

Let's deal with the elephant in the room first. I don't really remember why I stopped posting here. I enjoyed doing this blog and will continue to post from now onwards. Since my last post, I have been studying towards my BA in Media and Screen Studies(which is so close to completion I can taste it). I also started another blog on another platform, https://sapicturetheatres.wixsite.com/sapicturetheatres which is about the history of picture theatres in South Australia. It's a work in progress. I aim to post about once a month on there, so if you are interested please have a look. So to quote Austin Powers "I'm back baby". Let's now talk about the film, and what a film it is. The Consequences of Love is a 2004 film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Sorrentino is a masterful Italian director who if you don't know his name, you may know some of his work,   The Great Beauty (2013),  Youth (2015), and  The Young Pope (2016). He has also done a number of...