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Sunday, September 25, 2005

a disturbing weekend

went to catch "The Devil's Rejects" with my darling this weekend. our initial plan was to catch "The Longest Yard", because he wanted to see it so bad. but the timing wasn't in our favour, so i thought of that movie as an alternative. well, let's just say, it wasn't as tolerable as i'd expected. i know it's M18. i know the posters said gore and warning signs that it might be somewhat disturbing. but so far, i've been able to tolerate most gore films. i especially loved "SAW", especially the pscho-analysis element of it.

but "The Devil's Rejects" is not so much gore, as it is more of violation and inhumane abuse of humans. it's about this Firefly family who randomly go around killing people senselessly in the most grotesque and crude methods. then the Sheriff takes the law into his own hands by swearing to hunt them down and kill them himself, in revenge for his brother's death, with the help of two bounty killers, named 'The Unholy Two'. halfway through the movie, i actually felt naseous. i could imagine myself bending over and just hurling on my shoes. and there was a scene where they took a country band hostage in their hotel room. in the Firefly family, they had a son, Otis, and he asked one of the women to strip and satisfy him with whatever he asked for, in front of her husband. i nearly cried. it was horrible. not forgetting how Otis skinned the face of one the male members of the country band and later sewed it onto his (the band member's) wife's face. she died by running around moaning for help, but mimed, and got squashed to pulp by a truck. *hides in a corner and trembles*

the overall experience was surreal. but i must say kudos to the director Rob Zombie, who is actually a musician. his cinematic presentation is tops. it makes the movie very real, as though it's a documentary of a real-life family who really does do this for a living. maybe that's why it's frightening. i DO recommend you guys to catch it. but i must warn you, it's quite disturbing. but hey, that's only MY opinion. go see it yourself. ^_^

talking about disturbing, i think i'm quite stupid. in the sense that, on my way to school last week, i was watching Channel News Asia. and it showed (i think) some footage of the victims of hurricane Katrina, or something like that. they were little children. and as i was watching it, i realised my eyes were starting to well up with tears. i don't know why, but just at that point of time, it affected me. i felt so sorry for those poor kids. and i started questioning why such things happen to innocent people. but i had to hold back from really crying, for the sake of not looking insane. or emotionally ustable in public, at least.

the only reason i don't mind going through next week's schedule of full days (except for friday), is the fact that my parents will be away from tuesday to friday, in malaysia. wee. heehee.