Andrew Law ([info]hapimeses) wrote,
@ 2008-03-09 01:07:00
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Current music:Dodgy intro music to 'Mischief Night', the next film on Film4

Oh, what a night...
Just watching The Descent (adverts just now) -- great film so far!

[info]woblin and I watched Gosford Park earlier. We've seen it before and enjoyed it muchly, and would have watched it again anyway, but we watched it this time because we thought it might help inform one of Lindsay's characters. Y'know, Julian Fellows can be a bit of a prick at the best of times (or, so it seems from his telly persona), but his script is really, really good. Oh, and the film did help with the character.

The Descent just ended (this post has taken a while to compose -- watching movies kinda slows the words per minute). Nasty movie. No heroes here (or heroines, more accurately). Good stuff.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. I'm on the early with the kids tomorrow. Unfortunately for [info]woblin, she won't get much of a lie-in, as she has an appointment for a haircut tomorrow morning at 10am.

Sucks to be her.


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[info]angusabranson
2008-03-09 09:57 am UTC (link)
I just watched Descent for the first time on Friday night and enjoyed it. Especially the ending which threw me :)

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[info]hapimeses
2008-03-09 11:05 am UTC (link)
Absolutely. The end threw me, and I wasn't entirely sure what to make of it to begin with.

**SPOILER ALERT!**

You have the betrayal followed by the fall of Sarah. Then the ascent to the light and the escape. Then the ghost of Juno in the car. Then the awaking in the cave with the now-familiar delusion of her daughter, but with 6 candles on the cake instead of the 5 we had seen previously (representing the six girls lives being blown out? Who knows?). Then the sounds of the crawlers moving in.

Bleak? Kinda. Depends upon how you look at it, I suppose. After all Sarah's been through, at the end she seemed to be in a pretty happy place after her 'descent' into madness. You could almost claim the ending was a little sweet -- a mother lost in the delusion of her baby girl still being alive, reborn in the earth-womb of the cave and her crazed mind -- far better than the reality drawing in all around her. Far, far better. Sarah, at least, escaped, in a way.

The whole betrayal though, that certainly was bleak. Kill the girl for sleeping with your man and killing the life you loved (it's pretty clear Juno was partially responsible for the car crash a year earlier, as the husband was thinking of Juno -- his almost-certain lover -- instead of concentrating on driving), after she probably saved your life by being a shit-kicker at your side.

Nice.

And I hold no truck with anyone that tries to claim the crawlers didn't exist, and were nothing more than figments of Sarah's deranged mind. I find that a little weak, and it doesn't seem to add up with the scenes presented in the film. This is no Fight Club.

But, yes, I enjoyed it, and the end did throw me a little.

Good movie.

Did I really just type all that?

:)

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