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sad kind of …

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:30:34 +0000

“… yeah the movie left me with a sad kind of quiet but poetic observation of a life i knew nothing about.”

thought from imdb about the movie ‘up in the air‘

perhaps ?!

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:25:42 +0000

Larry: [on a photography exhibit] What do you think?
Alice: It’s a lie. It’s a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and… all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it’s beautiful ’cause that’s what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone… But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so… the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.
Larry: I’m the big fat liar’s boyfriend.
Alice: Bastard!

closer

koy.aa.nis.qat.si

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:34:47 +0000

… in hopi language ‘koyaanisqatsi’: 1. crazy life; 2. life out of balance; 3. life disintegrating; 4. life in turmoil; 5. a way of life that calls for another way of living …

stammering wreck

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:01:15 +0000

imdb user comment about the movie ‘before sunrise‘: ‘… that really struck me; seeing this young, slightly brash American guy, so usually full of confidence, reduced to something of a stammering wreck. the poor desperation and look of realisation that ripples across his face is really very moving …’

taken from

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:18:08 +0000

the movie ‘101 reykjavík‘

‘There they are …
My mother the lesbian, and my father the boozer.
What am I then? The offspring of a lesbian and a boozer?
It’s like two birds of different species.
The lesbian bird and the boozer bird.
The boozer is a wetland bird; he’s rather heavy …
and needs a good run-up to get off the ground.
He can fly for a long time and has good stamina.
Several weeks may pass by before he gets back on the ground.
In between he lies low and goes on the defensive.
Especially for the first days after landing.
The lesbian: unlike the boozer …
The lesbian is a relative newcomer to Icelandic nature.
She is thought to have migrated from Denmark and Britain.
Her only contact with the male bird … is during conception.
In recent years we have witnessed cases of male birds
who are unable to fly at all.
The offspring of a boozer and a lesbian is the Hlynur …
An unusually slow developer that can’t fly …
and remains with his mother for the first 30 years.
The Hlynur is defensive by nature, but harmless.’

reflection

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:57:05 +0000

‘… be like Nuwanda. if not, then be like Neil because it’s better to be gone than to be just another sniveling selfish punk lemming running around this stupid planet. like we need another human bovine grazing through society’s concepts of “life” until the final slaughterhouse of political and corporate oppression mixed with uncontrolled breeding by our virus of a species destroys us all …’ – words written on imdb about ‘dead poets society‘

broken flowers

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:07:24 +0000

Bill Murray’s character in the movie ‘broken flowers‘: ‘… well, the past is gone, I know that. the future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. so, all there is, is this. the present. that’s it …’

angels of the universe II

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:22:25 +0000

‘- the policy now is to make hospitals look as much like ordinary homes as possible.
- why do you think that is?
- because ordinary homes have become so much like hospitals …’

from ‘englar alheimsins‘

angels of the universe

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:21 +0000

‘… we’re all equal before god … even if we are ill. we’re angels. angels of the universe …’

in their quiet moments

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:28:09 +0000

‘… it seems sometimes to me that you see a lot of people like that, who in their quiet moments seem to have very little that they’re happy about, and who look off into the distance with loneliness in their eyes …’ – from imdb discussions board about the movie ‘idioterne‘