As you may now Park Chang-wook of Thirst fame has trained his keen cruel eye on something a little less supernatural and subtitled for his next film Stoker. We got the first taste of it on Entertainment Tonight days ago but... you know... (how long do you think I can milk this "but I have pneumonia!!!" excuse?). So herewith some unedited thoughts I had while watching it...
Personally speaking I can't wait to see life tear you apart."
• Love La Kidman lashing out. These opening eye daggers reminded me more than a little of The Golden Compass and I mean that as a compliment. That book trilogy was beyond and Nicole Kidman really got that character (Mrs Coulter) so it's such a pity that the movie didn't really get the book and the ending didn't even get the ending and no other movies will be gotten to get it all retroactively like! I have pneumonia.
• I'm tickled that this isn't a biopic on Bram Stoker!
video and more thoughts after the jump...
• Stake those biopics through the heart, filmmakers. Kill that genre dead for at least a few years. Like a zombie it will return to chew on historic brains but until the great rising...
• I'm so pleased that this doesn't appear to be about vampires or writing about vampires either despite the title.
• Some of the pale self-loathing on display does bring up very fond memories of Ok-bin Kim in Thirst (I'm still so proud of that Best Actress nomination I handed her even if people were like what the what now?)
• I'm kind of over wan Mia Wasikowska after Lawless and but I can easily be won back if she's aims harder again. That's all it will really take. I'm assuming this is of the Sissy Spacek Badlands easily manipulative morally vacuous killer.
• Is it weird that certain shots feel like direct lifts from Thirst to me or am I just making this up because I loved Thirst?
• Matthew Goode makes me quiver under my bodice.
• Remember when Matthew Goode played Ozymandias in Watchmen?
• Although he was even more perfect casting as ideal boyfriend in A Single Man. Ideal but for the lack of immortality. *sniffle*
• "UNCLE CHARLIE" Hee. Love those Hitchcock references.
• Is the "Uncle" literal? And if so just how incestuous is this movie going to be? More or less than Savage Grace?
• The shot of Matthew Goode leaning back against a piano is... excuse me, I need a moment alone.
• "We don't have to be friends. We're family." Great line.
• I know that some people get sick of Nicole Kidman in breathy-voice mode but I love it. "Of age for what?" is such a great line reading... like she's daring herself to answer her own question.
• That tease was much much too short -- who is Mia pointing her gun at?
• Bring me full trailer this movie immediately.