Tu 9/1/20

Tu 9/1/20

Up 715am: Foggy with rain beginning early afternoon and continuing on and off through the day- only to mid 70's, but muggy.

I wanted to watch 'A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE' at Hoopla, but apparently they dropped the title. I borrowed 'THE REFLECTING SKIN' and 'GIDEON'S DAUGHTER' for this morning.

'THE REFLECTING SKIN'-

A very strange film. The story is told through the eyes of an eight year old boy in a desolate wheat growing community in the American West shortly after WWII. The viewer is forced to experience the film with only a child's limited understanding of the world and the conflict between Good and Evil.  He thinks that an older English woman is a vampire, his father was a closeted gay man, he finds a petrified new born baby, and two of his friends are murdered by a Cadillac full of Teddy Boys. Strange in the extreme, but I applaud the attempt at something truly different. To present traumatic childhood experiences with absolutely no mature point of view or adult wisdom is rarely seen on film;  with Viggo Mortensen...However, 'A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE' it ain't...

Then I watched the other film from Hoopla that I ordered this morning. 'GIDEON'S DAUGHTER'. A rich English gentleman vaguely involved in top-tier politics and advertising has a relationship with a woman who lost her son in a car accident. He's from the upper class and she works the night-shift in a convenience store, and the romance seems a little contrived. The subplot is that his adult daughter will not forgive or forget that he left her mother's death bed to take a call; with Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hardy.  

215pm: Light rain since noon, and it looks like it will end by 330pm, so I'll read and then might try a walk outside then. If not I'll hit the treadmill.

445pm...on the treadmill. Listened to a WTF interview with DANNY MCBRIDE, some of a WHITNEY CUMMINGS podcast, and listened to THE MELVINS. SIX MILES ON TREADMILL TO A 4.3 PACE. 

In the tub with AMERICAN PSYCHO and listening to KYUSS, THE DESERT SESSIONS 9&10.

Watched 'KEYS TO TULSA' (Amazon Prime). The movie was a confusing Noir-ish mishmash, but I ordered the novel that the film was based upon from Amazon; $8.00;  with Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Mary Tyler Moore, James Coburn, and Cameron Diaz.