"A beer and some convo"
Interesting! Just sent this to the Kermode and Mayo fillum review show on 5Live since they’re always discussing what to do about potential spoilers in their reviews.
http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~nchristenfeld/Publications_files/Spoilers.pdf
We were bored last night. Recent Monday have been BINTM nights but it finished last week. So after food we were channel hopping and came across Doc Martin on that ITV starring Martin Clunes. R commented that I’d like it as her from The IT Crowd is in it.
Turns out she isn’t any more.
Well wow it was a dull show. No drama, no comedy. Just not good enough for a comedy drama. The plot such as it was, was flimsy mother in law type stuff. It was very odd to watch what is effectively a prime-time show for a change and to see very little of any substance whatsoever. The actors were all doing alright, no worries with their skills but the dross they had to work with.
Wonder if anyone can get a boring script made for ITV? Still if you like spending time with amiable people then this would be your bag.
We watched “Of Gods and Men” the other night. Well what a lovelily made fillum. It’s a slow paced one though so if Transformers is your sort of thing then I wouldn’t bother.
It’s a case in what happens when the outside world intrudes into a cloistered life. We have a bunch of monks (I think that’s the correct collective noun) living in Algeria doing their helping the community stuff and living in complete harmony with the locals. The difference in religions mean little to either party and they all mingle happily. At one point the monks are invited to someone’s son’s party (sort of a religious coming of age thing) and are welcomed warmly and they, in turn, are happy to be there. In other words the monks are locals just like anyone else.
But then the civil war kicks off and foreigners are being killed and girls without veils are stabbed on buses etc. All very unpleasant.
The monks themselves are a mixed bunch and very well drawn characters. Some are old and fatalistic but happy with whatever happens, the youngest monk is terrified more than any. The trials of the group form the second half of the fillum. Tis lovely.
A wonderfully warm and poignant study of faith, brotherhood, neighbourliness and duty. I shan’t divulge the ending though.
Yesterday we went to a monkey place. We were expecting a bunch of different monkeys but instead there were lots of 1 particular type. In fact they were from North Africa, indeed the same place as the fillum was set. Barbary Macaques they were.
J wasn’t too impressed but everyone else was. Nice place.