Tuesday, June 13, 2006
"The Omen" was a little disappointing, I have to say. If it weren't for Julia Stiles, who is one of my favourite actresses, I wouldn't have watched it.
Well, did she salvage the movie? She's a brilliant actress, no doubt. But her role was quite limited, unfortunately. Mia Farrow was good, in the role of the nanny. Actually, the cast is very A-List. Yeah, it sometimes determines whether the movie is good. I mean, if you go ahead and watch some Asian horror movie featuring some unknown, it'll just be lots of gore and long-haired things.
Anyway, the story was pretty good until about the end. It made me go, "
What the hell?!" Well, it may work for you, and if you're intending to watch it, I wouldn't discourage you. And if you study Gothic lit, it might appeal to you. There's a lot of Gothic elements in it. Like the house of instance, pointed arches, lots of corridors (labyrinthine)... it looks pretty damn creepy. Who in their right minds would want to live in such a house?
Otherwise, there were a lot of symbols in it. I like the colouring stuff. You'd notice that Julia Stiles, who plays Kate, Damien's mother, wears white most of the time. And the atmosphere is freaking dark and gloomy, then suddenly you see a splash of bright
red here and there. I don't know if it's colour therapy or what, but I quite feel the effect of it.
One of the most disturbing parts of the movie is actually the beginning. It won't be much of a spoiler if I talk about it here. They talked about REVELATIONS 8:7 and onwards, about the signs pointing toward Armegeddon. The "mountains of fire" in the Bible were intepreted as the 911 incident in the movie, and the "waters that swallowed thousands of men" was the tsunami. I know it's a movie, but what
if it's true? What
if these are the signs?
And the book of REVELATIONS continues to intrigue me.
Well, "The Omen" is nevertheless a horror movie, and I suppose it doesn't purpose to do anything further, other than to scare and to entertain, which it did. If that's what you're looking for, go watch it then.
Boo....
Okay, thinking about other stuff, like... studies! Oh my gosh, I'm so... unmotivated. What with all the distractions like movies, mapling, blogging, braces (yes, the pain is very distracting
okay), CLEO, television, even sleeping...
Man, this is what the holidays should be all about.
And I have less than two weeks left.
Help me.
♥ The lights faded at
11:34 pm
