Monday, November 01, 2004
So here's me, running gauntlet between autograph-hunters, bodyguards and people-carriers. Flashlights go off, I turn and wave, dignified and yet bemused over the commotion.
The crowd ignores me wholeheartedly.
I'm at the UK premiere of The Woodsman and it is a moving and though-provoking film. I want to take this film and show it to the bloodhounds, self-righteous and wicked, who'd rather take the law upon themselves in eye-for-an-eye fashion. I want to demonstrate, through this film, that life and the human mind is not that simple, that we all agree that paedofiles are dangerous, but that the manner in which we engage with them and with the subject must be considered. I do not believe that paedofile registers should ever be released to the general public.
Juxtaposed with this sober subject matter, is the joviality and general sunny disposition exuded by Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick. There is a certain sense of Hollywood having come to town, but our Kev is from Philly, and NYC, and has a sense of humour.
The following day there is no paparazzi, no actors, and no introductory speeches. Tony Takitani is a film about aloneness and loneliness, beautifully filmed and scored. Extraordinarily literary and very, very stylish (and stylised), if nothing else, this film has made me want to go and read the books of Haruki Murakami.
The crowd ignores me wholeheartedly.
I'm at the UK premiere of The Woodsman and it is a moving and though-provoking film. I want to take this film and show it to the bloodhounds, self-righteous and wicked, who'd rather take the law upon themselves in eye-for-an-eye fashion. I want to demonstrate, through this film, that life and the human mind is not that simple, that we all agree that paedofiles are dangerous, but that the manner in which we engage with them and with the subject must be considered. I do not believe that paedofile registers should ever be released to the general public.
Juxtaposed with this sober subject matter, is the joviality and general sunny disposition exuded by Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick. There is a certain sense of Hollywood having come to town, but our Kev is from Philly, and NYC, and has a sense of humour.
The following day there is no paparazzi, no actors, and no introductory speeches. Tony Takitani is a film about aloneness and loneliness, beautifully filmed and scored. Extraordinarily literary and very, very stylish (and stylised), if nothing else, this film has made me want to go and read the books of Haruki Murakami.
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