For those who don’t know yet, there it is. I’m pretty darn bummed. Kurt Vonnegut has passed on. He was a wonderful writer who I had the honor of seeing on two occasions - once in RL and once in SL. I remember his voice with its growling low frequency musings that somehow carried the warmth of his soul. I’ll miss him.
Somewhere, somehow, the idea of fantasy feels societally relegated to something unworthy of the “mature.” One movie that clearly goes against this grain of thought is the recently released Pan’s Labyrinth.
It is a very dark fantasy tale and is definitely not recommended for kids.
The ability to describe the power of a child’s view of a certain cruel world, the pains that she encounters, and the ways in which she copes are well portrayed in the film. The characters shown are both exaggerated in the fable-like sense and yet terribly believable.
Realism and Fantasy are both well done and intertwined in such a way as to convince the viewer that these two perspectives are not truly separated and that both are worthy and necessary foci of an individual’s attention.
Some reviews.
You may have noticed a lack of bloggings lately. I have an upcoming exam and a current office move taking my attention at the moment. But in the meantime, here’s a link to my brother’s blog of artificial-intelligence/computer-science goodness as well as a blast from the past towards which he points us webizens.
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