POTTER

This movie is fucking awesome.

You 'may' need to have read the books, mostly just to know what polyjuice lotion is, and to help fill in some of the gaps about what's really go on in the background (ie. that hogwarts is on edge the entire time), but this movie was incredibly well done. written, directed, acted. sad to see the new dumbledore isn't half as good as the actor who died.

remember when you'd see a movie as a kid, and things felt very new? remember how you felt when you first saw the matrix? well, it's not 'quite' as big a deal as that, but it's quite eye-popping.

i think the reason i was blown away was that i had read the books, and i had created these images in my head. to see them in digital celluloid was much more vivid. take some of the most creative people in their field (the digital creators), combine them with a great director and a demanding producer and some respect to ms. rowling, and you end up with a visual that is much better than my creative mind came up with.

i have a desire to always be wowed, i WANT to be amazed, i want to smile and giggle with delight at the unthinkable.

if you're a fan of the books, you've probably seen this movie. if you haven't, don't want for the dvd. if you're not a fan of the books, but have seen the others and wasn't really sold on them, this one is entirely different.

every trilogy has its dark centre. this is potter's. star wars has 'the empire strikes back', the lord of the rings has FORGET TITLE SO INSERT IT YOURSELF. all stories (or most), have an internal arc.

they move from the light, towards darkness, and back to the light. generally. in a movie, the middle part, act 2, is typically the struggle against evil/time/trouble/drugs/injustice/etc. the last act is the overcoming of that. over the course of a trilogy, it mimics the 3 act structure, making each film/book an act. and within that, fractals.

the holy trinity. triptic (sp). triskelion (my tattoo). we're enamoured by THREE. it works on our consciousness in a unifying way, if we can balance the three properly. in a painting, a triptych (sp again, hoping to get it right along the way), the painter tries to balance the elements. so does a writer of a film. do does the writer of a trilogy. potter is a mammoth collection of books that i'm guessing will be able to be broken down into a trilogy. the first three books were all small. the goblet of fire was the first of the massive, and marked the beginning of harry's adolescence. an interesting 'dark time'. the last few books will be harry overcoming his obstacles and stumbling out of adolescence as a man. there's a trilogy in there.

do i have a point?
no. not really. i'm still not on the patch so i'm looking for distractions.
i just find it fascinating the way trinities work on us.

the patch even works on a trinity. you start on 21 micrograms, then go to 14, then 7.

sarah is coming over for brunch so i'd best start cooking. she just buzzed the door as i typed that, actually.

arivaderci!