Pixar makes good movies and Brave is a good movie. But like every successful studio they seem to be slipping into the George Lucas mindset of using more special effects and not worrying so much about the story. Brave was an amazing looking film, the hair and water were especially well done. In fact, much of the film had a hyper-real look that was at times at odds with the usual cartoony people who live in the Pixar universe. This has always been a major gripe of mine-Pixar can make water and hair more real than reality but all their…
Tag: 1950s
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar is the story of a young woman who has a mental breakdown and has the further misfortune to have it during the late 1950s when ‘doctors’ were fond of things like lobotomies and electroshock therapy. We follow Esther Greenwood around as she finds life a bit too much to deal with and tries to kill herself. She comes to think of her world as being muffled by a bell jar that has been lowered over her head, so that the world she sees is distorted and not quite as it should be. One thing leads to another…