If you haven't already seen this film, let me enlighten you.
Serendipity is a beautiful romantic comedy about a rare kind of love.
Adventure love
Would you chase through America chasing a girl you had a chance encounter with?
Our hero, John Cusack does.
He meets Sara, Kate Beckinsale, in a fight over some gloves.
Crazy girl
This is where the madness really gets started.
Sara, instead of giving this man his number, as any sane woman does when she sees a man she likes.
Instead the details are divided between a book and a dollar bill.
The rest is an enchanting and rib tickling story, which will hopefully inspire you to love again, no matter how much of a pig you just realised your ex boyfriend/girlfriend was.
10/10 Go rent, trust me.
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Tuesday, 27 December 2016
Friday, 20 June 2014
Unspeakable Things - Laurie Penny Book Review
Laurie Penny has sent me a shiny new copy of her book to review.
It took me a week to read and I have taken a week to think about it to try to give it the review it deserves.
A brave beginning
This book begins with all the charged anger that I would expect from Penny.
She throws a gauntlet down to tamer forms of feminism and gets stuck in, even to the point of shocking me once and believe me that isn't that easy.
In all, this is a brutally honest book that comes out fighting: covering eating disorders, the feminist tradition, sex, the internet and female stereotypes.
Easily digestible, but with difficult ideas, bravo.
She refuses to offer a template for living, which is wise given that it is the message offered up so often to women.
And she is brave enough to encompass men into her thinking, wise to fight the men hating image.
Sexy lady
However, she observes that the only value a woman is allowed to have is her sexuality.
While I agree there is some weight to this argument I feel the way she has tackled it refuses to confront the problem sufficiently.
Women do manage to transcend to greater power Ms Penny, which is probably why the press try to drag them back down to talking about their clothes and eye bags.
She views unequal objectification and not objectification itself to be the problem.
Is not objectification destructive, and in danger of de-humanising everyone: after all you wouldn't be very happy if I was writing this review only of the cover of your book.
That is what objectification does, you of all people should know this.
Does looking at men like an object empower us or them?
Is this the area in which you really want more equality?
Parting shot
You say you want to re-write the old stories about work and power and sex and love, great.
How?
Do not misunderstand me, this is one of the best and bravest books that I have read in a while and equally one that merits re-reading.
You unpack some uncomfortable truths about what it still means to be a woman in today's society and for that I can only applaud you.
I just sometimes feel I may have to fight against you in the same moment as I stand with you and believe me, I'd rather stand with you.
Do you want to burn the past or evolve it?
It took me a week to read and I have taken a week to think about it to try to give it the review it deserves.
A brave beginning
This book begins with all the charged anger that I would expect from Penny.
She throws a gauntlet down to tamer forms of feminism and gets stuck in, even to the point of shocking me once and believe me that isn't that easy.
In all, this is a brutally honest book that comes out fighting: covering eating disorders, the feminist tradition, sex, the internet and female stereotypes.
Easily digestible, but with difficult ideas, bravo.
She refuses to offer a template for living, which is wise given that it is the message offered up so often to women.
And she is brave enough to encompass men into her thinking, wise to fight the men hating image.
Sexy lady
However, she observes that the only value a woman is allowed to have is her sexuality.
While I agree there is some weight to this argument I feel the way she has tackled it refuses to confront the problem sufficiently.
Women do manage to transcend to greater power Ms Penny, which is probably why the press try to drag them back down to talking about their clothes and eye bags.
She views unequal objectification and not objectification itself to be the problem.
Is not objectification destructive, and in danger of de-humanising everyone: after all you wouldn't be very happy if I was writing this review only of the cover of your book.
That is what objectification does, you of all people should know this.
Does looking at men like an object empower us or them?
Is this the area in which you really want more equality?
Parting shot
You say you want to re-write the old stories about work and power and sex and love, great.
How?
Do not misunderstand me, this is one of the best and bravest books that I have read in a while and equally one that merits re-reading.
You unpack some uncomfortable truths about what it still means to be a woman in today's society and for that I can only applaud you.
I just sometimes feel I may have to fight against you in the same moment as I stand with you and believe me, I'd rather stand with you.
Do you want to burn the past or evolve it?
Monday, 31 January 2011
The Green Hornet
Adding to the list of comic book adaptation that seem to be oozing like super power bestowing radioactive waste out of America, Michel Gondry has decided to bless us with The Green Hornet.
The Green Hornet was never going to be particularly groundbreaking, but it did look fun and Gondry is a bit of a visual genius.
Britt Reid (writer and actor Seth Rogen) is the wayward son of a newspaper man.
For those well versed in comic book heroes wayward son of a rich guy is fairly standard.
His father dies leaving him the newspaper and low and behold one of his staff (Kato) sticks around to help him into his role as unlikely crime fighter.
However, what is perhaps less common is that Britt is sent up quite a lot throughout the film through his juxtaposition against his 'sidekick' Kato (Jay Chou) and well qualified secretary Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz).
This film may be unashamedly gun slinging action nonsense, but it has its tongue firmly in the back of its cheek.
Making all the surreal and overblown plot that follows infinitely palatable.
The plot doesn't bear much scrutiny, but it's a hilariously fun ride.
Perfect for switching off and giggling to at the end of a hard week.
It's in 3D for those who care.
I don't.
The Green Hornet was never going to be particularly groundbreaking, but it did look fun and Gondry is a bit of a visual genius.
Britt Reid (writer and actor Seth Rogen) is the wayward son of a newspaper man.
For those well versed in comic book heroes wayward son of a rich guy is fairly standard.
His father dies leaving him the newspaper and low and behold one of his staff (Kato) sticks around to help him into his role as unlikely crime fighter.
However, what is perhaps less common is that Britt is sent up quite a lot throughout the film through his juxtaposition against his 'sidekick' Kato (Jay Chou) and well qualified secretary Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz).
This film may be unashamedly gun slinging action nonsense, but it has its tongue firmly in the back of its cheek.
Making all the surreal and overblown plot that follows infinitely palatable.
The plot doesn't bear much scrutiny, but it's a hilariously fun ride.
Perfect for switching off and giggling to at the end of a hard week.
It's in 3D for those who care.
I don't.
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