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read between the lines
keeping mum Valentine's is a day just to torture single souls like me...thank god i don't feel that way this year. haha. really, i'm serious! but the phrase just popped into mind and it sounded catchy so i thought i'd just write it down... i actually had an earlier post about how good the movie keeping mum was (it was really worth more than my 6 ringgit today, that's how good it was), but my computer shut down for some unexplainable reason and blogger apparently doesn't know how to autosave. even the "recover post" button at the top fails to bring up anything. so i'll keep it short (or shorter) since i've lost the energy and time to write it all out again. i liked keeping mum because it had the sort of dry british humour that i appreciated (which few asians do, sadly). in fact the plot of the story itself, right down to the ending, was based on that type of humour. even the music joined in to add to it. they had this weird, uppity kind of orchestra-based music whenever dame maggie smith's character (the key character in the whole movie) entered the scene. it was 'weird' because the music sounded like an "everything's all right" kind, when actually everytime it was playing we, the audience, knew something was amiss. very amusing. haha. and the actors were all brilliant. credit goes to the casting director who managed to find such appropriate talents that could fit into their roles like gloves. as in, everyone was very convincing, whatever character they were playing, right down to their looks and the type of clothes they were dressed in. and i liked the backdrop of true british countryside, small-town culture. points of note: it was first time i saw mr. bean, oops, i mean rowan atkinson, sleeping with a woman! haha. previously i've only seen him in black adder, mr. bean and love actually and he was always kind of asexual in those shows. even in mr. bean in one of the episodes where he had a girlfriend, he didn't exactly have the libido for it, haha. patrick swayze really nailed it as the dirty (read: perverted) old american haha. and mr. brown was really your typical old geezer, really convincing though his role was small. ditto for mrs. goodfellow and her "flower arrangements committee" woes. haha. kristin scott thomas shocked me with her hairdo and knitted clothing too. she's usually not like that. but my favourite has to be dame maggie smith. she was definitely convincing as grace hawkins through and through. and this was the first time i've seen her as someone other than minerva mcgonagall from harry potter. this time her character had so much more depth to it and she played it well. |
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