Category Archives: into movies

state and main — david mamet

A film crew is tak­ing over a lit­tle peace­ful town, because it hap­pens to have an old mill. The old mill fea­tures in the most impor­tant scene of the film and is there­fore of great impor­tance. But after the direc­tor (Walt) gets the news the old mill has burnt down, the usual tur­moil turns into full blown panic. The script writer (Joe) has to write another end­ing to the movie, and, o yeah, just a lit­tle prob­lem, has to come up with a new name for the movie. If that is not enough already the main actress sud­denly doesn’t want to show her boo­bies to the pub­lic any­more and the main actor is doing what he is famous for with ‘younger women’.
It should be enough to drive a man crazy. Is Walt ever going to have his film? 

we have always lived in the castle — shirley jackson

524 stars

Mary Kather­ine (‘Mer­ri­cat’) Black­wood lives, together with her older sis­ter Con­stance and Uncle Julian, in a castle, long ago bought by her ances­tors. It is a beau­ti­ful and mighty cas­tle, but some­thing hor­ri­ble hap­pened eight years ago and that is why the fences and cas­tle doors are closed for all (town) peo­ple. Mary Kather­ine has to go to town twice a week for gro­ceries and has her own rit­ual to go around there, because oth­er­wise she gets lost in hate­ful sneers and looks of the town peo­ple. The rest of the time the Black­woods are cut of from every­day life, but they like it that way.
Until, one day cousin Charles appears at the doorsteps of the cas­tle. His inten­tions are clear for Mary Kather­ine, but Con­stance is dragged into Charles’s mind­set and all that has hap­pened eight years ago is com­ing back to the service.

train_man (vol. 2) — hidenori hara

4 stars

Train_man and [Her­mess] met on a express train, because nerdy train_man saves the day of [her­mess]. At least that is what hap­pens in vol­ume 1 of this series. In this vol­ume 2 the romance con­tin­ues. Train_man went from nerdy otaku to a not so nerdy lovesick young man. They go on their first dates this time and of course the com­plete inter­net com­mu­nity at 2channel where train_man first went to sup­port and help have their own opin­ions about to han­dle everything.

the virgin suicides — jeffrey eugenides

5 stars

When you see the title you would think you’re in for a thriller/horror type of story, but you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s a very grip­ping and dis­turb­ing story about five teenage sis­ters who com­mit sui­cide. Heavy stuff? Not really. The way the story is told is very open and fac­tual, even funny at times, by one of the boys (now men) who lived in the street and who were intrigued by the Lis­bon girls and their lives.