This is my favorite version of this song. Sesame Street is so amusing at times.

It’s not a very usual occurance that I watch a movie and say “Wow” after it is over and passed. The movie I refer to this time is In Bruges. Written and directed by veteran stage playwright and director Martin McDonagh, it follows these two hitmen as they go… to Bruges, Belgium. As Ray said so often, “Why fucking Bruges?” Not gonna reveal the plot, as it’s kinda sparse, but they’re hiding out until their boss gives them more orders. Sure, the main premise is a little tried, and the hitman black-comedy is a relatively cliched formula to go with, but the movie was great in my eyes for other reasons.

I’m going to make this a terribly short review even though I loved the film. A line often uttered in the film was:

“It’s like a fucking fairy tale, with all the old buildings and everything.”

And I believe that was sort of what the director was going for in this film. It just seemed surreal, from the camera work, to the music, to the story itself. I suppose it was more the entire film that made me love it so. Most people, when they talk about a film, focus on single aspects that they liked, but In Bruges was only really any good because of the whole package. Otherwise, I’d say it would be rather sub-par. I did love the directing. It was all done very well, and so the package was satisfactory in my eyes.

It was the featured film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and I’m a fan of black comedies anyways. So, if you’re into this sort of stuff, check it out. Crappy reviews make the film better!

Alright, so I finally saw this movie. Eric had been urging me to see it for quite some time now, and I finally got around to actually remembering to see it. I mentioned this movie in a review I did of a later movie of Gondry’s (2006’s The Science of Sleep) and I’ve been urged by the person mentioned in the article to watch this film as well. And so, on this boring summer day, I decided to finally partake of this rather amusing film brought to you by the mind of an insane writer.

Of Gondry’s two films I have seen, they seem to have some pretty distinctive things about them. Firstly, they both contain incredibly neurotic male leads. In this, Jim Carrey plays Joel, a rather shy fellow who falls in love with Kate Hudson’s character, Clementine, and later they break up and the whole craziness of the film happens.

From here, the premise of the film becomes a bit odd. Joel, who is depressed because Clem broke up with him, decides to go to a service that erases your memory. Here, it turns into kind of a odd science fiction type film, where this technology is obviously not perfect, and these men come in at night to erase Joel’s memory through a convenient little computer program and hookup to his brain. We still don’t know the mechanics of memory, so this aspect of the movie is kind of far off. But, in all of this, he’s trying to escape the process of the memory erasure in his own mind.

It’s a really sweet film. I mean, it is weird, but essentially it is a romance. So, if you’re against those sort of things, then this film may make you a little sick. But, I recommend that you see it. So, I give it a 9/10.

(Sorry for the poor quality of this article compared to my review of The Science of Sleep, I’m ashamed too.)