Saturday, March 25, 2006

200th Post!

Aren't You Impressed?? I Am! I've kept this thing going longer than any one diary i've written in, and I've changed a lot from the first post. gotten older for a start. less radical. Once a vegetarian, now a maccas'n'coke guzzlin' Student in his fifth year. I'm living out of home, without a girlfriend, on youth allowance, and god it's good. building to my left is the Metro Woolworths. very much in the foreground.

But anyway, there was probably something worth posting about before the numbers hit me... oh yeah, Bloody Fox. this film i've been obsessing about Nochnoi Dozor (Night Watch), and the incredible subtitling effects it had in the cinema, which made me wait all this time until it came out on DVD... and to my frustration, a bloody dubbed version, or in russian without the cool subtitles. what exactly am I complaining about?

The story was enhanced by the effect of the subtitles. already a strange world, the strange language is made comprehensible by what you read on the screen. a boy with a bloody nose in the pool is called by an erethral voice, and the words form from the red mist in the water, and fade away again. a warrior of light calls to his comrades below him on the bridge, and the words drift down to them. a Crowded train is full of people muttering at the madman rushing past, and their words pop out everywhere at once, and fade into the blurring cacophony of noise. Ain'titcoolnews.com said it gave it a comic book feel, and it sounds about right.

the white words scrolling across the bottom of the screen are as lifeless as the zombies in every other film I see. posted by Keegan at 4:37 pm

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