Deadwood & Fireworks

[ellen_datlow]

I watched the first four episodes of the third season and am starting to get worried about the coming withdrawal with only three discs to go (presumably 6 episodes). I'm delighted to see the wonderful Brian Cox enter the series for the most recent two episodes.

And I watched the Japanese crime movie Fireworks Directed by and starring Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. It's good, although it took me about halfway through the movie to figure out what was going on with some of the characters. Apparently it won a lot of international awards when it came out in 1998 and damned if I can figure out why. It just isn't that good, and in fact one major plot point really bugged me. It's not much of a spoiler to say that one of the main cops in the movie lost his young child (cancer I think) and that his wife is currently dying --what of? I haven't a clue. Physically she seems fine but throughout the movie she seems feeble minded--I'm not at all convinced it's intentional. So...cops are killed, gangsters are killed, more cops are killed or wounded, and more gangsters are killed. It's ok but I really don't feel it's anything special.

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[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

The wordless communication was very good, but perhaps because SHE was given no life outside from her relationship with him she seemed rather fey, to put it mildly. I think even silently she could have been depicted to have a brain.