So I woke up stupidly early this morning as I tend to when Soph's not around and have lazed in bed watching a couple of movies, courtesy of veetle.com.
The first was Reign of Fire staring Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. It's a post apocalyptic tale of a few survivors who are left after the world is besieged by.... dragons. Yes that's right, dragons. I know what you're thinking, "that sounds like a rubbish film". It's actually worse - I would probably sum up the experience as a truly ridiculous waste of an hour and a half of my life.
Thankfully, the second movie was much better though. Baraka is an experimental film with no words or talking at all (Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)). It's pretty much just amazing and beautiful video-photography from around the world - featuring religious ceremonies, lots of people working together in factories, all kinds of nature and time lapse views of cities (I find it quite amusing when people look like they are scurrying around like ants). It also has some cool drumming in the soundtrack too.
It makes some powerful statements about the environment, 1st world vs. 3rd world, the follies of industrialisation and all sorts of high brow intellectual stuff like that. I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty slow moving but it's utterly enthralling and very compelling viewing. I would recommend it.
I'm feeling pretty bloody cultured now so it's probably time to hit the PlayStation. I may shoot some gangsters.
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