Film Diary Update

Here are the next two films after "Snakes." I still have five more reviews to get to in the next couple of days.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - B-
- I am so glad that I got over my girlhood obsession with fashion. I would not want to be apart of that world at all. I think this was a great opportunity for Anne Hathaway to work with Meryl Streep, but I’m not sure she walks way better for it. Meryl wipes her off the screen in almost every scene. I sometimes wonder if they were even in the same movie. Meryl plays it so cold and cruel yet without being bitchy, she is truly the boss form hell. This is something that we have no seen on the screen for some time and never from Ms. Streep, this was a wonderful performance. Emily Blunt is the other standout here, we actually feel bad for her and yet we somehow sympathize as well, I think we have all been placed in that position at work at least once. She was bright and funny and she had a presence on screen that shined. I love Stanley Tucci, but I believe that anyone could have played this part as well. I don’t that the film was a funny as I had believed to be before I saw it and so I was disappointed, but I loved watching Ms. Streep and I do like Anne Hathaway, she is very appealing and I could identify with her completely. Overall the film was a minor disappointment on the humor side, yet I was satisfied. The test was for my husband who did not want to see this film, so he walked in expecting to hate it; he was surprised at how much he enjoyed it.

A SCANNER DARKLY - B+
- I would love to see this again, and I think had I not been so tired the night I saw this, I would probably still want to see this again, because a second and maybe third viewing is necessary. From what I understand Philip K. Dick is an acquired taste, and the only time a film adaptation has worked was with “Blade Runner,” I have to admit that I have never read his books, but I have heard that with this book Philip K. Dick goes deeper in conspiracy theory with this than with anything else before it. He weaves a tight loop in his plot that seems to go back on itself that it was easy to get lost. I think that is what happened to most people who saw this film and didn’t like it, because they didn’t get it. At first because I was so tired and I just wanted to get out of the house, I didn’t want to see this film, yet I was dazzled by the animation, the movement of shadow and light and the complexity of composition I kept wondering, ‘how did they do that?’ After I got over my distraction with the visual, I found myself asking questions about what was going on and I found I was intrigued and confused. By the time the film ended I was sadden that I had missed so much before I caught on and I wish to see this again someday.