what do i write?
January 28, 2008
I can not believe i am writing a blog. Well, now that i have been subjected to this exercise of getting my blog started, i better write something….but what? Archaeology!! Yeah, i guess so….or probably i should write about the film i watched yesterday. Yeah, after two weeks of working on the design of the rural blog, i.e. our new media website on the covering deprivation trip, we finally uploeaded it yesterday. Yeepppeee!! And in order to mark the successful upload we thought of watching a film and made the mistake of going for a night show of Golden Compass. I still can not make out why is the film called “Golden compass” not “Lyra,” the movie revolved around Lyra after all. If that was not enough, editing was aweful..the transition from one frame to the next was abrupt, so was the end. And the flat dialogues made me restive. Background music was too bland for the arresting visual effects of the movie.
The film ended with this aweful song “Lyra, i am your soul,” it was traumatising… The film is based on Phillip Pullman’s books, well, i have not read his work but i assume it would not be as bad as the film protrays it to be..a few of the characters seemed really dumb, like Mr. Iorek, the depressed polar bear, who spent his time drinking whisky, in the metal city, just because he did not know where his armour was?!