Raven in Green again..

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane, and every day, is a new strain of slaughter, supply lines are less protected, evil on all sides, eye can smell the death on your flesh--creeping in, trapped within the twisting fingers of fear, and all eye see is ewe, that face, those eyes, burning like leprosy, eye can see u there poisoning the air, prostituing Nationalism, and eye want to attack, to rip out your heart and lay you flat on your back, and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory...and hate guides our way, eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back, for the acceptance of death and blind cave war, the giving sleep of depression, the sweet elucidation of savage meaningless agression, chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples, in the harem tents--outside, just beyond the edges--eye ride, a cycoptic mare in the fires of imagination. feeding my disease, a river of plagues, eye need something to remind me I'm still sinning that pain is important, that wurdz matter, that healing is possible, that eye am not alone ...in this --guard the houses--triple the watch,--Maidens, dig up your sorcery --sirens, sharpen your rocks..ewe will eat my pain again. whatever you need unite messiah ME

--Wurdz by Otep Shamaya

Secret Window
July 17, 2004 7:42 p.m.

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So I finally got around to watching Secret Window. I'm a little glad I didn't go and see it in theater like I wanted. Becky saw it with her brother and sister and she told me how predictable it was and what not. She said I'd figure it out really quickly and I should just wait till video, so I did.

And all the above is true. It is predictable, but Johnny Depp is fantastic. I really enjoyed his performance. His hair is just so great, so funny, his robe he's always in, and the dialogue is really great. If his little comments aren't ad libs then I'm rather impressed by the screenplay. And actually, I get the impression that the screenplay was pretty good. All the actors were saying that they didn't see the ending coming, they were shocked by it. And clearly anyone one who has seen the ending saw it coming the whole movie.

I watched some extras and I was getting very irritated by the writer/director. He kept saying all these things that he wanted to do...and how various things are indicated of something else and I was just like, "Um....no that doesn't come across".

This movie also gave me a greater respect for David Fincher, as if I didn't have a lot already, but...my guess...and I could be wrong, is that the writer/director pitched the story to Fincher and Fincher turned him down. And knowing that this guy wrote the screenplay for Panic Room and knowing what Fincher did with that....and seeing what the writer did with one of his pieces on his own....and Panic Room is really well done, and this clearly is not.

The writer/directer made a comment on how he wanted a gradual reveal...he didn't want and "light bulb" moment where the ultimate secret is revealed because we've seen that a lot....but dude....the reason there is so many movies with "light bulb" secret reveals is because the WORK! ....this guy made it so "Gradual" that it was so predictable that it made it rather annoying to watch.

but since I went in with rather low expectations...just to see the Johnny, I wasn't disappointed and it was worth the watch.

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