At some point in the past year or so, I have become what we in Scotland would refer to as a “Big Jessie”, and I am almost certain that this is a natural psychological side effect of fatherhood. You often hear about new parents softening as their children grow, but I seem to have avoided such a clichéd personality change in all facets of life except one: I now have little threshold to endure painful suffering in movies, especially when it comes to children. I loved Slumdog Millionaire, either in spite of or because I spent the majority of the first hour with tears in my eyes, as our prepubescent hero seems to encounter violence and abuse at regular, relentless fifteen-minute intervals. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Martyrs’
French haircut horror films
If you’re into violence and gore, well good, but stop namedropping lame-ass remakes of the new wave of French horror films. That’s like passing yourself off as Casanova when your only frame of reference is intentionally and repeatedly walking in on your sister in the shower. Even if the concept of French cinema seems sort of snooty and a bit gay, once you’ve been raked by these movies you’ll go, “Hey, I guess I do enjoy a creepy haircut scene in a foreign language.”
