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Skwisgar Skwigelf, Toki Wartooth, William Murderface, Pickles the Drummer and Nathan Explosion make up Dethklok - a world-conquering metal band with more money than Belgium. Created by Brendan Small and Tommy Blacha, the show is an extreme close-up critique of facism, capitalism, apocalypsism and many other isms...oh yeah and it's frickin' hilarious.
Thoughts...
We're introduced to Dethklok, a band so astonomical that their own fans sign indemnity waivers to go to their concerts. "At a concert this guy cut off my fingers and threw them up on stage, and Murderface rolled them up and smoked them! Murderface!" says one fan.
This show is so skillfully made that it is almost possible to believe that Dethklok are a real band. You can even buy "Dethalbum", their record, where several tracks were recorded in the Mariana Trench because it's the most brutal place on Earth.
They uncover simple truths...
"we have just dicovered you can buy psychological validations..."
"that's pretty metal, that he's being eaten"
Fun little facts to think about when you watch - the clever clogs behind the series, Brendan Small, also wrote all of the metal tracks, sung them all and played every instrument except the drums. Being such a music afficianado, Small made sure that all of the animation matched the music - so theoretically by watching Skwisgar's fingers you would be able to play the songs. Brutal.
Verdict...
Love it.
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The Details
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: The screenplay was written by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Juno Temple
The Opinion
This story is set in England, not long before the breakout of World War Two. Keira Knightley plays Cecilia Tallis, the eldest daughter of a well-to-do family. James McAvoy plays Robbie Turner, the son of the Tallis’ housekeeper. The budding romance of these two characters is spied upon by Cecilia’s 13 year-old sister, Briony (a clever writer with a vivid imagination), who catastrophically misinterprets Cecilia and Robbie’s behaviour, resulting in Robbie being charged with the rape of the Tallis’ cousin Lola (Juno Temple) and drafted into the army just in time for war. I don’t want to ruin the ending, but suffice it to say that it is both horrific and bizarrely heart-warming. I absolutely hated Briony but somehow respected her at the same time. Such is the effect of clever film-making. This is a clever film, and there are many things I love about it, however, there are also a few things I struggled to get over which I shall now whinge about…
Ever since I found out that Keira Knightley was given an acting agent for her 16th birthday I have been sceptical of her films. I put her in the same category as Daniel Radcliffe and Kate Hudson, this category being “if I was born to a family that did not have any show-biz connections, I would probably not have the fame or fortune that I do”. In this film she doesn’t lend any more depth to her acting. It seemed like she cut and pasted her romanticism from “Pirates of the Caribbean” (where she was in love with another “Mr Turner”), and her bitchy “I can’t forgive you” acting from “Bend it Like Beckham”. She is ridiculously pretty, which added to the steamy library sex scene, but beyond that she did nothing for me.
The “this is so not a dream sequence ending”. You will know what I am talking about if you have seen it, and if you haven’t I recommend that you do. While it was a clever way to end it, there is no way to prevent your audience from feeling cheated. I prefer and honest ending to happy one so STOP LYING TO ME!
The filmmakers cleverly show you Briony’s point of view first before showing you the actual situation from the participants’ point of view – thereby tracing Briony’s own realisation experience as she ages. For example, Briony, age 13, stares out her bedroom window just in time to see Cecilia and Robbie standing in front of a fountain. Cecilia begins to take her clothes off. She jumps in the fountain, and then comes out, staring daggers at Robbie who just watches her as she pulls on her clothes over her drenched slip. We then are shown that Robbie and Cecilia were flirting and play fighting over a vase which broke and a section of it fell into the fountain. Cecilia dives in, retrieves it, dresses and then storms off. I was really impressed with the way that this was done but at the same time it filled the film with what I like to call British Cringe. British Cringe is the innate skill of British film and tv creative types to create dramatic tension so thick only the sharpest cynicism could cut through it. I am quite a cynical person but in Atonement even I couldn’t get over it. It is so obvious what is going to happen but they take forever to get around to it and the tension just builds and builds. Fans of Faulty Towers and The Office would understand this feeling. I would chew off my own hand just to avoid feeling this way.
The Verdict
I know I have just spent the last few paragraphs saying why I this film annoyed me, but despite the annoyances it is truly just a well-made film. There are really cool dramatic techniques; the filmmakers keep a good pace to make sure we don’t have a baby cast for too long or an older cast for too long, they reverse the action, they use an amazingly long shot sequence for the evacuation to Dunkirk plus others. Do go see it, it’s worth it but be warned – it is stressful and confusing.
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Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writer: Split across SEVEN WRITERS!! The three of whom wrote the screenplay are Michael Brandt, Derk Haas and Chris Morgan
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