Friday, March 24, 2006

I saw a film last night I really liked. Mirrormask. I'm always surprised by the quality work that Jim Henson's company is consistently behind. I was a big fan of Farscape. (I watched every episode of all four seasons in order) Mirrormask is a children's story about a girl who is struggling with her dark and light sides of herself. At moments the girl could be really, really good and at others she was selfish and brooding. (Pretty much every teenager) She says something awful to her mother one night and then shortly afterwards her mother has some sort of brain hemmorage. The girl is overwhelmed with guilt and when she goes to bed that night she dreams of her struggle between her dark and light sides. This happens fairly early on in the movie, so most of the movie is the girl in her dream as her light side in her light world, trying to figure out why the dark world seems to be taking over the light world. She has to find a mirrormask to pull both of her worlds together so the dark world doesn't take over entirely. (I tried to write a story like this called Melody Howl, but I realized that the reader would be too confused by what I had written. I didn't know how to simplify it, so I gave up.) The art work in this movie is absolutely incredible. That really is the main reason to see this film, but the whole theatrical project is so well done that I thought it was worth mentioning on my blog.

5 Comments:

At 4:52 AM, Blogger Ned said...

it looks really cool, i'll have to check it out.

 
At 6:33 AM, Blogger Benjamin Emerson said...

I'm back from my trip to Belize. It was wonderful. I really didn't have the money to do the touristy things I wanted to do, but I had a great time regardless. I'm going to go back next year and do it again with a bit more savings. I really wanted to go cave tubing and visit the temple ruins. As it turned out, I sat on the beach and drank a lot of Belikin Beer.

 
At 5:02 PM, Blogger Ned said...

that sounds pretty good, even if you didn't get to do everything you wanted. if you're really going back next year, keep me posted. i'd like to see some ruins too!

 
At 9:40 AM, Blogger Benjamin Emerson said...

Will do, Ned.

 
At 2:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've never heard of that movie before, but it looks very interesting. Thankyou for including the pictures. We are returning The Mask of Zorro to Blockbuster today...hopefully we will return with a much better movie. :D

 

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