Heaven and Hell
07/05/2012 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie’s been in exile from Cyberia for the last three days. Just too many interesting things going on in the mundane muggle world
Thursday was on the coffee trail. Nothing particularly significant but getting off the bus several stops early near Seventh Avenue and noticing several bunches of clover like weeds was a good omen. It meant being in the present and being able to enjoy and be inspired by all the little things
Friday was a big day out. First was a visit to Toodyay with an old friend. Toodyay is a country town about an hour away on the train from the big smoke. It sort of resembles Bridgetown but is not quite as lush and green. Winter is the peak of tourism season there as it gets terribly hot in summer.
On our previous visit in March 2010 the gorgeous cafe upstairs on the balcony was closed. This time we were in luck. Or so it seemed. Turns out the cafe on the balcony is still there but it is under new management. These people are not the brightest lights on the Christmas tree and a few sandwiches short of a picnic. But putting on the impartial Martian hat, it was amusing watching the antics of the Louisiana Swamp Monster in her boiler suit dishing up her New Orleans Style cuisine.
There were more swamp monsters rampaging around on the train journey home. Unlike the trip down where the train was nearly empty, on the way back it was packed and was not able to sit with our witchy friend. So took the opportunity to get out that little black and gold book and catch up on the body count and the rest of the drama at the Cornucopia.
But there were more spooky and scary adventures in store for this serpent.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ecosopher one of our friends from Nanoland invited the Izzie to a German film festival to see a movie with the intriguing title of “Hell”
The pitch is a story set some time in the future when everything is hotter and drier, most of mainland Europe is some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland. And maybe there’s zombies
Izzie just loves a dire doomy gloomy Dystopia (even one with never ending sunshine) and this sounds like just our cup of hemlock.
Here is the official 'pitch'
Literally translated as ‘bright’, the film is set in a future world where food is scarce, it doesn’t rain and the sun is very powerful. Two sisters and a male friend exist in this tough environment where survival is problematic. When they encounter another man, their very existence is challenged until they eventually arrive at a commune that may be able to solve their food issues. This debut feature by Tim Fehlbaum is a challenging, atmospheric film with simmering tensions and a powerful sense of society under threat
It started at a spooky abandoned service station and felt vaguely reminiscent of The Hitcher and other assorted Highway 666 horror stories. This was a place where people would kill for a can of petrol or bottle of water.
There were some kidnappings, carjackings and things going bump in the night but when it really started getting spooky was when the newbies in town pay visit to an old church while searching for their missing relatives. Nearby there was a farm house where the happy clappy Bruckners and their neighbours had set up some rather interesting communal living arrangements where visitors are always welcome to stay and feast on bowls of tasty stew. (After saying Grace first. Proper protocol must always be observed)
But since the livestock had all died in the recent drought, one wondered how the two families could afford to be so generous with their hospitality. It did not take too long to find out
This was beginning to get seriously reminiscent of Hanzel and Gretel stumbling upon the cutest little gingerbread house in the woods
Hansel, Gretel and their family soon get wise to the ways of the little old lady in the farmhouse along with the rest of her freaky family. Getting trussed up in the store room next door to the cool room with the butcher’s block does kind of bring them to their senses. They manage to untie themselves (of course) and let the rest of the long pigs out of the stock yards where they head for the trees
Before long the butcher boys and little old mama are in the woods in hot pursuit of their two legged dinners with knives and nets. This was like a German version of the Hunger Games minus the Gamekeepers
Got to thinking that if this mob can snatch Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel for inspiration and Suzanne Collins has got gladiators, Theseus and assorted Minotaurean Monsters, then surely the serpent should go sniffing around for a tasty ancient tale or two and add some wicked dystopian twist. After all, November is slowly sneaking up
Just could not help but be amused at the thought of two vegetarians going to see a movie that turns out to be about a bunch of human cannibals.
ecosopher kindly drove the serpent back to the Lair after the movie and lived to tell the tale!
Thursday was on the coffee trail. Nothing particularly significant but getting off the bus several stops early near Seventh Avenue and noticing several bunches of clover like weeds was a good omen. It meant being in the present and being able to enjoy and be inspired by all the little things
Friday was a big day out. First was a visit to Toodyay with an old friend. Toodyay is a country town about an hour away on the train from the big smoke. It sort of resembles Bridgetown but is not quite as lush and green. Winter is the peak of tourism season there as it gets terribly hot in summer.
On our previous visit in March 2010 the gorgeous cafe upstairs on the balcony was closed. This time we were in luck. Or so it seemed. Turns out the cafe on the balcony is still there but it is under new management. These people are not the brightest lights on the Christmas tree and a few sandwiches short of a picnic. But putting on the impartial Martian hat, it was amusing watching the antics of the Louisiana Swamp Monster in her boiler suit dishing up her New Orleans Style cuisine.
There were more swamp monsters rampaging around on the train journey home. Unlike the trip down where the train was nearly empty, on the way back it was packed and was not able to sit with our witchy friend. So took the opportunity to get out that little black and gold book and catch up on the body count and the rest of the drama at the Cornucopia.
But there were more spooky and scary adventures in store for this serpent.
ecosopher one of our friends from Nanoland invited the Izzie to a German film festival to see a movie with the intriguing title of “Hell” The pitch is a story set some time in the future when everything is hotter and drier, most of mainland Europe is some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland. And maybe there’s zombies
Izzie just loves a dire doomy gloomy Dystopia (even one with never ending sunshine) and this sounds like just our cup of hemlock.
Here is the official 'pitch'
Literally translated as ‘bright’, the film is set in a future world where food is scarce, it doesn’t rain and the sun is very powerful. Two sisters and a male friend exist in this tough environment where survival is problematic. When they encounter another man, their very existence is challenged until they eventually arrive at a commune that may be able to solve their food issues. This debut feature by Tim Fehlbaum is a challenging, atmospheric film with simmering tensions and a powerful sense of society under threat
It started at a spooky abandoned service station and felt vaguely reminiscent of The Hitcher and other assorted Highway 666 horror stories. This was a place where people would kill for a can of petrol or bottle of water.
There were some kidnappings, carjackings and things going bump in the night but when it really started getting spooky was when the newbies in town pay visit to an old church while searching for their missing relatives. Nearby there was a farm house where the happy clappy Bruckners and their neighbours had set up some rather interesting communal living arrangements where visitors are always welcome to stay and feast on bowls of tasty stew. (After saying Grace first. Proper protocol must always be observed)
But since the livestock had all died in the recent drought, one wondered how the two families could afford to be so generous with their hospitality. It did not take too long to find out
This was beginning to get seriously reminiscent of Hanzel and Gretel stumbling upon the cutest little gingerbread house in the woods
Hansel, Gretel and their family soon get wise to the ways of the little old lady in the farmhouse along with the rest of her freaky family. Getting trussed up in the store room next door to the cool room with the butcher’s block does kind of bring them to their senses. They manage to untie themselves (of course) and let the rest of the long pigs out of the stock yards where they head for the trees
Before long the butcher boys and little old mama are in the woods in hot pursuit of their two legged dinners with knives and nets. This was like a German version of the Hunger Games minus the Gamekeepers
Got to thinking that if this mob can snatch Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel for inspiration and Suzanne Collins has got gladiators, Theseus and assorted Minotaurean Monsters, then surely the serpent should go sniffing around for a tasty ancient tale or two and add some wicked dystopian twist. After all, November is slowly sneaking up
Just could not help but be amused at the thought of two vegetarians going to see a movie that turns out to be about a bunch of human cannibals.
ecosopher kindly drove the serpent back to the Lair after the movie and lived to tell the tale!
