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May. 3rd, 2021 10:20 am
About sexuall abuse in pop-culture
Or not just in pop-culture, also in the musical where I happen to be a part of the writing team. ( Read more... ) Unrelated, it suddenly seems more difficult to make "cuts"?
Feb. 20th, 2021 01:53 am
French film
So one movie I have seen with my parents was Two days in New York (2012) by Julie Delpy, with Chris Rock together with Julie Delpy in the leading roles. That lead me to think “I know I have read that one commander in chief for the Swedish contribution to the UN operation MINUSMA in Mali, has changed his Turkish name to a Swedish name” (I can’t find the name of that guy, but I hope I remember that right).
Totally logical thing to think. Another movie by Julie Delpy is Le Skylab (2011). That’s the movie I think about when hearing “French film”. Basically just because Le Skylab is one French title that’s easy to remember. Le Skylab takes place in the 1970s, during one big family gathering. The grown ups drinks, eats, smokes and talk about sex in a none-prudich way. Also the grandpa is crazy because he was tortured by the Japanese in the second world war. While a slightly younger man is crazy since he in the army himself tortured suspected enemies in North Africa. That made me think that: “The French still have military in North Africa. Actually we also have a military in North Africa, in Mali”. And after that I remembered that anecdote about the Swedish officer in Mali.
About Two days in New York. It’s a romantic comedy there Chris Rock meets a French family that drink, eat, don’t smoke, except for Mary Jane, and use even more vulgar language when talking about sex, than in Le Skylab.
Totally logical thing to think. Another movie by Julie Delpy is Le Skylab (2011). That’s the movie I think about when hearing “French film”. Basically just because Le Skylab is one French title that’s easy to remember. Le Skylab takes place in the 1970s, during one big family gathering. The grown ups drinks, eats, smokes and talk about sex in a none-prudich way. Also the grandpa is crazy because he was tortured by the Japanese in the second world war. While a slightly younger man is crazy since he in the army himself tortured suspected enemies in North Africa. That made me think that: “The French still have military in North Africa. Actually we also have a military in North Africa, in Mali”. And after that I remembered that anecdote about the Swedish officer in Mali.
About Two days in New York. It’s a romantic comedy there Chris Rock meets a French family that drink, eat, don’t smoke, except for Mary Jane, and use even more vulgar language when talking about sex, than in Le Skylab.
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As you know I’m not an actor, I have merely been in one amateurish movie and will possibly be on stage next year. It’s a show that takes place in a simulated world. Today I in a weird way was reminded of my grandpas acting career. I was surfing wikipedia and came to the Swedish page for “Exploitation film”. It mentioned Thriller en grym film/Thriller a cruel picture - a movie it’s not possible to mention without claiming it was one inspiration for Kill Bill, that’s an obligatory claim. I have not seen that 1970s “rape and revange” movie, but it stars Christina Lindberg. She also had a role in a historical movie a reviewer on IMBD called: “Greatest trainwreck in swedish movie history”. My grandpa had a role as an extra in that movie.
Ok my grandpa was a farmer, the reason he had a role as an extra was because that movie was filmed near his farm and they took extras from the home guard. Still, why not say that my grandpa acted with the actress from a cult movie and I therefore come from an actor family - just like the Skarsgårds. Thinking about that, our last name also ends with “gård”. Coincidence?
Then writing about my family. I have heard my four year old niece sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider" in both Swedish and Finnish. She picked up those lyrics in her old kindergarten. That reminded me that she and her sister are 50% Finnish, who won’t speak Finnish. Well, they are not the only example of that. It’s possible that it was on livejournal I first read about Latinos in the US who don’t speak Spanish, just English. (I have no idea how common it is, just that it’s not unheard of.) I also think I have heard that if the mom in a “mixed ethnicity” family speaks a minority language, the kids will be bilingual. If it’s the dad that speaks the minority language, the children are less likely to be bilingual. Intresting.
Ok my grandpa was a farmer, the reason he had a role as an extra was because that movie was filmed near his farm and they took extras from the home guard. Still, why not say that my grandpa acted with the actress from a cult movie and I therefore come from an actor family - just like the Skarsgårds. Thinking about that, our last name also ends with “gård”. Coincidence?
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Then writing about my family. I have heard my four year old niece sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider" in both Swedish and Finnish. She picked up those lyrics in her old kindergarten. That reminded me that she and her sister are 50% Finnish, who won’t speak Finnish. Well, they are not the only example of that. It’s possible that it was on livejournal I first read about Latinos in the US who don’t speak Spanish, just English. (I have no idea how common it is, just that it’s not unheard of.) I also think I have heard that if the mom in a “mixed ethnicity” family speaks a minority language, the kids will be bilingual. If it’s the dad that speaks the minority language, the children are less likely to be bilingual. Intresting.
Feb. 26th, 2019 11:49 am
Movies, weather, politics
I read that in some US TV-shows characters says “balls” when they really mean the F-word. So with that in mind. The fucking climate today, I mean the balling climate today. One day it could be -24 C (-11.2 F) and you think: “Just like in the old days, I probably used to ride my bicycle to school when it was like this”. Then within 48 h it’s raining and +5 C (41 F). Depressing.
Something else. Some while ago I and Robert saw the movie Aniara.
A sci-fi movie is “unswedish” but in other ways the movie felt Swedish. Then I write that I’m not thinking about violence and nudity. But the movie made me remember that growing up, in the old days, they said that in Sweden we censor violence but leave nudity in movies, in the US it’s the other way around. And yeah, Aniara, has no violence in it, a sci-fi movie without action and violence, but some nudity. Now, of course neither Sweden or the US is the same country now that it was 30 years ago - it’s goes without saying that no country is. That might not be as relevant anymore.
Well, if I should write random fact about this country. One of our mainstream parties is quite likely to ge a party leader that’s on wikipedia's list of ex-muslims. (Her name is Nyamko Sabuni and was born in Burundi. But somehow I thought the first thing I mentioned is the cool thing.)
Then, at last, I have written this country has problems. Don’t misunderstand that! I’m still thankful as balls that I got to grow up here. There are just things that doesn’t works as good as it used to. While other things might be better.
Something else. Some while ago I and Robert saw the movie Aniara.
A sci-fi movie is “unswedish” but in other ways the movie felt Swedish. Then I write that I’m not thinking about violence and nudity. But the movie made me remember that growing up, in the old days, they said that in Sweden we censor violence but leave nudity in movies, in the US it’s the other way around. And yeah, Aniara, has no violence in it, a sci-fi movie without action and violence, but some nudity. Now, of course neither Sweden or the US is the same country now that it was 30 years ago - it’s goes without saying that no country is. That might not be as relevant anymore.
Well, if I should write random fact about this country. One of our mainstream parties is quite likely to ge a party leader that’s on wikipedia's list of ex-muslims. (Her name is Nyamko Sabuni and was born in Burundi. But somehow I thought the first thing I mentioned is the cool thing.)
Then, at last, I have written this country has problems. Don’t misunderstand that! I’m still thankful as balls that I got to grow up here. There are just things that doesn’t works as good as it used to. While other things might be better.
I read the page for the movie Mammuth (2009) on tvtropes. In a way that movie is ritch-western-man-who-has-everything-poor-Asians-who-have-nothing-but-their-bodies the movie. Two things written on tvtropes that I never would have thought myself. One, they say that in one way the Thai prostitute was the lucky mom, since she was the only mom in the film beeing close to her child. Two, spoilers, I thought the American internet-millionaire hanging out with the Thai prostitute was a good guy until the second he (unpanned) had sex with her. But the two of them spend a whole day together before that, that’s the “girlfriend-experience” and that too, was work for her. I don’t know, one have always been told buying sex is a very bad crime. Therefore one think he goes from good to bad in the second they undress. But yeah, if just hanging out with the guy was work for her, he shouldn’t have done that either?
It reminds me the handful of times beggars have started talking to me, they within seconds makes sure they talk to you not because they want to be your friend, and definitivt not since they want to be your lover, but because they want your money. The Thai woman in the movie, took him in s tour of the island without ever mention money.
It reminds me the handful of times beggars have started talking to me, they within seconds makes sure they talk to you not because they want to be your friend, and definitivt not since they want to be your lover, but because they want your money. The Thai woman in the movie, took him in s tour of the island without ever mention money.
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Oct. 11th, 2018 03:33 pm
Short about a movie
Last night we in the asperger-group* saw the movie Hurt Lockers, about the Iraq war. The film begins with a quote claiming war is a drug. One point in the film seems to be that soldiers may get addicted to adrenaline. The drug is adrenaline. But when it comes to men who love war, I think of friendship, not on adrenaline. We have learned that men in Inter-war Germany missed the friendship (Kameradschaft) in the trench. Don't they even say Adolf Hitler himself got good friends in the war? Perhaps missing the friendship was a reason that war veterans created whose infamous right-wing extremes, armed militias, Freikorps. Then the militia was like an embryo for the future Nazi country. Another story.
On the other side, All quiet on the west front, by Erich Maria Remarques is known as an anti-war novel, and the novel was burned by the Nazis. But the book is a lot about friendship. So, yeah, I thought that if one could experience anything positive about being in war it was friendship not adrenaline.
* How is it, because of dr Hans Aspergers relation with the nazists, the name "asperger syndrom" will defintive disappear? And now I mentioned the national socialists for the third time in this entry. That is what happens when you write about war.
On the other side, All quiet on the west front, by Erich Maria Remarques is known as an anti-war novel, and the novel was burned by the Nazis. But the book is a lot about friendship. So, yeah, I thought that if one could experience anything positive about being in war it was friendship not adrenaline.
* How is it, because of dr Hans Aspergers relation with the nazists, the name "asperger syndrom" will defintive disappear? And now I mentioned the national socialists for the third time in this entry. That is what happens when you write about war.
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Oct. 14th, 2017 01:36 pm
Things I found intresting
Thing I heard today. Apparently it has been said that when the United kingdom leaves and the Brits aren’t here to correct us the rest of EU will develop an Euro English. Like if we want to say “on top of the law” instead of “above the law”*, there won’t be anyone to correct us anymore. At least that how I understood the Euro English theory.
Unrelated, I saw that Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita was on Netflix, so now I’m going to see it. Mostly to have seen it. The only Fellini film I have seen before is Amarcord. But La Dolce Vita is the movie that gave the world the word “Paparazzo” and at least here the scene there Anita Ekberg bath in Fontana di Trevi, Rome, is famous.
* Example from Daniel Lehmussaari’s crappy horror movie The House of Orphans.
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Aug. 3rd, 2017 04:16 pm
Ordinary thoughts
Photo from work. We have Jules Verne and Proust in French.
Yesterday I saw half of Django Unchained. So now I have a good reason to wonder why I have been fascinated by languages. See they they say Tarantino among other things likes westerns, samurai movies, pop culture in general, and Uma Thurman's feets but have no one said he seems to like language so too? In Kill Bill he had Uma and Lucy Liu talk Japanese and how is it with Mandarin and Cantonese (the old man on the mountain)? While in Inglourious Basterds and Django Christoph Waltz speaks several European language.
But I like language since I want to become Christoph Waltz when I grow up? Playing that European gentleman? (It ended so well in the movies, both when he was the good guy and the bad guy.) The problem is partly that I am really bad at languages, I sucks. Chemistry and biology on the other hand I was good at, and I like chemistry and biology too. Plus I think the world needs chemists and biologist more than it need some guy who can speak four languages (and to be clear, I'm not that guy). The different is that language is something one theoretically can learn yourself. To become an organic chemist or a molecular biolog you need university education and for me that was an invincible goal. Now I should end before I become bitter over my faild studes.
Btw it’s not silly and having too high thoughts about oneself to watch Django Unchained and think: “I’m aging better than Leonardo diCaprio”, right? That was a vain way of ending an entry that begone with a movie about such a serious subject as slavy. But it’s not like Django Unchained is 12 years a slave.
May. 2nd, 2017 06:52 pm
A movie post about the real far north
We saw Far North in the asperger group. The movie could perhaps at least partly, be seen as a male (straight male) fantasy told from the point of the woman. If you haven’t seen it, the movie take place in the very north part of Russia. The main character is a woman from the indigenous people and who’s played by Michelle Yeoh, who we uncultivated westerners might know from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Tomorrow never dies. She is cursed or think she is cursed. So she lives alone with one younger woman (Michelle Krusiec) far north, far away from the civilized world. The landscape and the harsh living conditions is one fascinating part of the movie. The last demonstrated in the first scene of them movie when they kill one of their dogs for food.
One day a wounded, white, man (Sean Bean) shows up and the two women take care of him. Here we have the male fantasy. Suddenly find yourself with two women, who looks like movie stars, and who basically haven't seen a man in two decades. At the same time the main character is one of the women, not Sean Bean. Seeing the movie like that, the bisarr and violent ending, that I disliked, serve to take down the male fantasy.
In other news today I traveled down to the school for a meating. I hope I can update soon.
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