May. 21st, 2010

tilly_stratford: (Buster: kiss)
Day 17 - Favorite short film

I remember being completely smitten with the Norwegian animated short film Tornehekken (The Hedge of Thorns) back when I was studying Media and Communication. It's an adaption of the French children's book Flon Flon et Musette and is about little Florian trying to comprehend the war that's separating him from his best friend Malene ("You must never speak of Malene again," his mother tells him. "She's on the other side of the War.").


Oh and they're all anthropomorphized rabbits.

The movie itself is at times pretty abstract and yet it still gives me goosebumps. When the air raid sirens wail Florian and his mother (his father is fighting in the war) go down to the cellar; In the dark a tree appears with small red glass hearts hanging on it, and for every explosion several of the glass hearts fall to the ground and shatter. Both Florian and his mother try to catch the hearts before they fall, but by the time the bombing's over the tree is naked and they've only saved two little hearts. Ridicule me all you want, it always makes me teary-eyed.

Here's the official English-language website for the film with information, pictures and a clip (though that's in Norwegian).
tilly_stratford: (ST: Relevant to my interests)
I've been watching bits and pieces of Deep Space 9. First things first: Ooooh Q, Q I never knew how much I've missed you even though without Picard you have zero character motivation and you're completely out of character. Still, everything's better with Q.

I just friggin' love Q alright?

Secondly, after having watched some ten episodes from the two first seasons I'm still not sold on DS9. Sure the effects look good, it's commendably different from TOS and TNG, it has some very attractive crew members (Bashir! Kira!), a Captain who's a single father and it even impossibly makes Quark slightly less annoying, but... Nah, it's not quite there.

It's the third Trek series I've become involved in after TOS and TNG, and I think it's starting to make me realize I'm not really a trekkie as such.

I mean--what parts do I like about Trek? )

In conclusion, I don't know where I was going with this.

Needs more fangirling: You know I just learned why the trademark Kirk cologne is named Tiberius (apart from the obvious reason)? Apparently in the shatnerverse books that's the name mirror!Kirk uses when he becomes emperor (Why aren't I reading shatnerverse again?). So it's not only Kirk cologne, it's evil mirror!Kirk cologne. And I shouldn't want it because of that, should I.

ETA: I had no idea the filk band S.P.O.C.K. was Swedish! Pity they're from Skåne though. I never liked the song 'Dr McCoy' but the original is amazing: "Han är doktor, ingen RULLTRAPPA".

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