Plants!

[icepixie]

In a document that I read at work today honoring a seed company, there was an awesome and I assume unintentional pun: "[Company name] was a growing enterprise on [street]..." Heh.

Speaking of plants, a couple more pictures:







And finally, I won the Netflix lottery and got Black Swan the day after it came out. Unfortunately, it stank.

I think my problem with it boils down to the fact that I can see how some film studies doctoral student is going to wet themselves over all the critical things you can get out of this (search for perfection, depictions of mental illness, fantasy vs. reality, innocence and sexuality, the creepy mother, and if you're a Lacanian you'd have a field day), but it was not enjoyable to watch on any level. At all. Maybe I just don't get psychological thrillers? I'm not sure what others in the genre I've seen. I was expecting something enjoyably creepy, but instead I got a lot of weird things that apparently never happened in reality and ENTIRELY too many scenes of Natalie Portman feeling herself up, getting groped by her director, and having sex with her understudy and some random guy. APPARENTLY SHE HAS A HANG-UP ABOUT SEX AND THIS IS BAD. OKAY. WE GET IT.

Also, even putting aside the story (because maybe this genre just isn't my thing), I am somewhat astounded that Natalie Portman won an Oscar for this, because from what I can tell, she had exactly one expression--a sort of breathless not-quite-horror--throughout the whole film. Maybe this was also the point, though. Who knows.

I guess the dancing was pretty?

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, I loved Black Swan*. We are opposites! Opposites!

*(Not that I thought it was a perfect film - it was definitely flawed. But I find I appreciate something that's flawed that at least is trying to do something different and interesting, rather than something "better" but that is kind of boring.)

[icepixie]

Complete and utter opposites! ;)