suspension of disbelief
Mat came round at the weekend in order to get into this blog entry. I waited in vain for him to do something amusing. Eventually we gave up and put on the DVD he bought Dave for Christmas: Chinese movie Mad Detective. This is about a detective. Who is mad. You can tell because he has all the usual symptoms: too-short trousers, imaginary wife. However, he is also a brilliant detective. The kind of detective who zips himself into a suitcase, gets his partner to push him down several flights of stairs, then emerges, crying: 'The ice cream shop owner did it!' While stumbling into walls. And he's always right.
Which is just as well, really.
Amanda was at Lakeside meeting some 'pregnant people' she's found on an internet forum. Mat was typically unconcerned, though it seemed fairly clear to me that, in the way of the internet, these people would turn out not to be pregnant at all. That in fact they would be men. Old men. Old men who needed a fresh baby for their Satanic rituals.
Later, when we went to the cinema to see Defiance, she denied this. They had clearly got to her, with their promises of untold riches and world domination.
The only thing Defiance has in common with Mad Detective is that in both films someone is pissed on. Though in the case of Mad Detective it is at somewhat greater length. Defiance is a true story, and that's just as well because if I hadn't been told it was true, I probably wouldn't have believed it. Daniel Craig plays the (suspiciously Aryan-looking) Jew who leads his fellow Jews out into the middle of the forest, where they set up camp. This is in under the regime of the Nazis, of course, otherwise it might have seemed a bit perverse. And they survive, or some of them do, until the end of the war.
At one point they steal 'ampicillin' to treat typhus. According to 'a doctor' on Time Out's website, however, ampicillin wasn't formulated at the time and, in any case, wouldn't have been used to treat typhus. So, so much for truth. Dave thinks the original story was about one man wandering into the forest. And dying of starvation.
No doubt he was Catholic too.
Amanda, uncomfortable in her seat, tried to use that feeling in order to empathize with the characters' privations, but with limited success. I have seen her scan. Already, the baby really does look like Mat. It is even, if I am not mistaken, holding a tiny laptop. How did it get hold of that? Those Satanists... But I suppose it would be pretty boring in there otherwise.
No wonder she's uncomfortable though.
Which is just as well, really.
Amanda was at Lakeside meeting some 'pregnant people' she's found on an internet forum. Mat was typically unconcerned, though it seemed fairly clear to me that, in the way of the internet, these people would turn out not to be pregnant at all. That in fact they would be men. Old men. Old men who needed a fresh baby for their Satanic rituals.
Later, when we went to the cinema to see Defiance, she denied this. They had clearly got to her, with their promises of untold riches and world domination.
The only thing Defiance has in common with Mad Detective is that in both films someone is pissed on. Though in the case of Mad Detective it is at somewhat greater length. Defiance is a true story, and that's just as well because if I hadn't been told it was true, I probably wouldn't have believed it. Daniel Craig plays the (suspiciously Aryan-looking) Jew who leads his fellow Jews out into the middle of the forest, where they set up camp. This is in under the regime of the Nazis, of course, otherwise it might have seemed a bit perverse. And they survive, or some of them do, until the end of the war.
At one point they steal 'ampicillin' to treat typhus. According to 'a doctor' on Time Out's website, however, ampicillin wasn't formulated at the time and, in any case, wouldn't have been used to treat typhus. So, so much for truth. Dave thinks the original story was about one man wandering into the forest. And dying of starvation.
No doubt he was Catholic too.
Amanda, uncomfortable in her seat, tried to use that feeling in order to empathize with the characters' privations, but with limited success. I have seen her scan. Already, the baby really does look like Mat. It is even, if I am not mistaken, holding a tiny laptop. How did it get hold of that? Those Satanists... But I suppose it would be pretty boring in there otherwise.
No wonder she's uncomfortable though.
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