As
Autumn/Winter comes in, so does the time for a) going to lots more gigs (this
always happens when the weather is rubbish), b) snuggling up and watching a
plethora of weird and wonderful films, and c) reading lots of lovely books. Mine and Sam’s tradition of snugging up
to watch utterly crap films kind of prompted this last week. So I’m joining the
trend of picking a film, a band, and a book that I think deserves mentioning,
each month, and telling you lot about them.
A
Dangerous Method
When
I originally wrote the intro to the post, I wrote film/band/song that I’m
loving. I had to change it, for this film. I can’t not mention this, but it
certainly is not something that I am loving.
So
as most of you probably know, Netflix recommends you films that it thinks you
will like, depending on what you’ve watched/shown interest in before. For
months now, Netflix has been recommending A Dangerous Method to me. I didn’t watch
it. I didn’t even look to see what it was about – because the cover looked
completely rubbish. Then last week when I was looking into Michael Fassbender’s
filmography, I stumbled across the description of a film that sounded
brilliant. To summarise, A Dangerous Method supposedly documents the
relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, along with the catalyst of
their controversial patient Sabina Spielrien. Freud fascinates me, and through
a very good friend I have heard a lot about Jung. Coupled with Michael
Fassbender, who is clearly some kind of god, I thought hello, this film is
going to be mind-blowingly amazing. So imagine my surprise when I went into
Netflix and discovered it was the very film they had been telling me I should
watch. Naturally I took this as a sign that I was going to love this film. Let me
tell you know; I did not love this film. Everything about this film, dictated
that it should be brilliant. It isn’t. It is utterly bizarre – the angle that
it chooses to portray the story from is quite frankly crazy. Viggo Mortensen
plays a very good Freud, however this was completely wasted on the audience as
the whole film seems to work to undermine everything that Freud ever concluded.
In fact, there is very little mention of his actual work – bar the odd few
lines of Jung mocking his thoughts. Michael Fassbender is, as per usual,
brilliant. The part that he plays seems to be a million miles away from the
truth about Carl Jung – but as he did a lot of whipping and whatnot, I won’t
complain about that. I have watched this film twice (hoping maybe I could teach
myself to like it) and both times I have
reached the end of it thinking, what a wasted opportunity. It really could have
been such a fantastic film – could have given a lot of people a better
understanding of how two brilliant minds came together and shaped a science
still applied today. But no, sadly not. Nice one, Cronenberg.
Sensorites.
If
you follow my personal twitter you will know that I’ve been loving this band
for a while now. I am the first to admit that my music taste is…varied, to put
it mildly. My spotify playlists jump from Death Metal to manufactured boybands,
and any number of things in between. I like it that way. So anyway, Sensorites.
Completely accidental discovery I won’t lie. I think it was around February of
this year. In the midst of breaking up with my now ex boyfried, who I had spent
a lot of time at heavy metal gigs with, I was very ready to go back to
something sounded completely different. So I toddled off to a Parlour Flames
gig (I’m the biggest Oasis fan ever, of course I was going to go) in Liverpool.
I will admit, I was a bit sceptical about how this was going to go. The venue
was an unusual choice for the kind of event and it wasn’t as busy as I would
have liked. So we sat down, and on came the first support act. I can’t even
remember who it was, I think I’ve blocked him from memory (if by some weird
coincidence you get to read this, sorry honey, you just weren’t my style at
all). So by that point I was feeling pretty, yk, what the hell have I walked
into, when Sensorites started playing. If you’re into music, then you’ll know
exactly how it is when you discover something new and amazing. When your ears
prick and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and the sound just seems
to seduce your brain to a puddle on the floor. They have a sound that I won’t
even try and describe because there’s no way that I’d do it justice, and it’s
the kind of thing that you should discover for yourself. I’ve seen them twice
since that night and both times, they have sounded brilliant. I’m just completely
loving their sound – it is definitely my soundtrack for the moment. Go and
check out their website!
I’m
obsessed with reading, but I’ve been that busy this month or so that I haven’t
had 5 minutes to pick up a new book, which is kind of soul destroying. Trying
to find the time to sit down and read the highway code for my driving lessons
is hard enough! Watch this space for a little review on the book I have sitting
at home desperately waiting for me to pick up J
B xxo
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