you're not like all the other flowers
Jan. 28th, 2008 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluelovesorangeWatched the first episode of Bara no nai Hanaya due to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitsune714's shameless enabling last night. And well. So I have three jdramas (Ashita no Kita Yoshio, Daisuki!) I'm watching now, and the common thread between all of them is that they're human interest, and if there's romance, it's done with just the right touch and subtlety. And there's the Matsuda brothers - Ryuhei in Ashita, and Shota in Bara no nai Hanaya portraying very different characters than I'm used to seeing them playing.
I also finally saw Atonement yesterday - and I don't have a lot to say that hasn't been said before - it felt like a hazy dream, and while I appreciated some of the visual tricks Joe Wright used to portray the different points of views, it all felt very...insubstantial somehow. I understood what he was trying to do, and it is an adaptation about a book that's just about as much as the writer as God as it is about the concept of truth, therefore the unreliable narrator is necessary, but at times I felt like it was just a gorgeously constructed collection of images hung on a spiderweb frame of story - the library scene, Cecilia's green dress, the way she looked like a pinned butterfly. I can't quite coherently explain my feelings about this movie - because there were quite a lot of things that did work - the clipped tones of the dialogue, the pauses and painful silences between Robbie and Cecelia in their beginning and then toward their end while they're separated. I would have to watch it again. Because...I liked it...and yet.
Bara no nai Hanaya is just this quiet, lovely thing that is full of surprises.
Robbers continues to be great, and I swear, I'll do a screencap review soon, because come on! The kdrama that brought me back to the fold - it has to be special. And I have a craving to rewatch Stained Glass Window, because I miss Lee Dong Gun.
I'm also watching Moonlight Jellyfish, because I've only seen Tatsuya Fujiwara in thatgigolohost movie he did with Oguri Shun, and histrionic video clips of Romeo & Juliet with Anne Suzuki (he speed shouts all of Romeo's lines. You have to see it to believe it.), and he's appearing in a NTV historicalextravanganza with Maki. I have no interest in watching Battle Royale or Death Note, which are the roles he's famous for, so...
Ryo Kimura (everyone's favorite gay sidekick/stalker! in Nodame and Hana Kimi) is also in this, playing his brother.
kitsune714's shameless enabling last night. And well. So I have three jdramas (Ashita no Kita Yoshio, Daisuki!) I'm watching now, and the common thread between all of them is that they're human interest, and if there's romance, it's done with just the right touch and subtlety. And there's the Matsuda brothers - Ryuhei in Ashita, and Shota in Bara no nai Hanaya portraying very different characters than I'm used to seeing them playing. I also finally saw Atonement yesterday - and I don't have a lot to say that hasn't been said before - it felt like a hazy dream, and while I appreciated some of the visual tricks Joe Wright used to portray the different points of views, it all felt very...insubstantial somehow. I understood what he was trying to do, and it is an adaptation about a book that's just about as much as the writer as God as it is about the concept of truth, therefore the unreliable narrator is necessary, but at times I felt like it was just a gorgeously constructed collection of images hung on a spiderweb frame of story - the library scene, Cecilia's green dress, the way she looked like a pinned butterfly. I can't quite coherently explain my feelings about this movie - because there were quite a lot of things that did work - the clipped tones of the dialogue, the pauses and painful silences between Robbie and Cecelia in their beginning and then toward their end while they're separated. I would have to watch it again. Because...I liked it...and yet.
Bara no nai Hanaya is just this quiet, lovely thing that is full of surprises.
Robbers continues to be great, and I swear, I'll do a screencap review soon, because come on! The kdrama that brought me back to the fold - it has to be special. And I have a craving to rewatch Stained Glass Window, because I miss Lee Dong Gun.
I'm also watching Moonlight Jellyfish, because I've only seen Tatsuya Fujiwara in that
Ryo Kimura (everyone's favorite gay sidekick/stalker! in Nodame and Hana Kimi) is also in this, playing his brother.
