Silences Of The Palace: possibly even better than Pokemon 3?

(oops that's my second today)

(pretend the first one wz a dream)

no mark! you will have to face the Thread Committee now.

SOrry, didn't see this thread, this was after I had nicked out in the afternoon to see another film.

Yes, it was my first time. Coo, its good innit.I have the unenviable task of having to do a presentation on it tonight without going "coo its good innit". Handles its stillness so well - and I'm a sucker for "bystander to history" stories anyway but what's most impressive is the way it manages to create its atmosphere in such a short amount of time. Ending is a bit of a downer though (pushing for cyclical version of history and pessimism of independence).

well of course you can always ref my epochal and i dare to believe stand-alone compare/contrast
ts: silences of the palace vs silence of the lambs

the only space she is free is is her music, before AND after the revolution: the bleakness of this freedom after is i think heartbreaking*

good i think also on the shabbiness and banality of power-in-its-backrooms

*you cd also look at it in light of upcoming war shenanigans: the version of liberation being promised — which this woman commits herself to and is betrayed by — as a phantasm of radio-chatter and guy-blather

*bump for pete's presentation purposes*

Got this a bit late Mark, but acquitted myself okay with regards to reference to the Koran (if you are going to sin - and I know you are - make sure no-one can see), the ropey feminist-psycholinguistic idea that silence is a language of its own and Silent Sign by Badly Drawn Boy. It was a bit of a love in though, everyone liked it.

Illuminated at least that part of the Noise piece. Yay.

Music is what allows her to transcend her place, but dopesn't achieve anything in the long run. As she says at the end, her life has been just as pointless (I resist allegory but its irresistable here).