Viewed on: 21st January, 23 clock, Cinedom, Cologne
Viewed with: 1xFreundin, 2xFreund
About Black Swan have already been made known to as many opinions, that my opinion really hardly contribute anything new can. Many consider the film a masterpiece, others think he is overrated. I think he is a masterpiece. Why? As I said, can not contribute much new me. But "the main contributing cause" is the motto of this blog. summarized
Do I have what is at stake? Very briefly: Natalie Portman (yes, they will get the Oscar, but you can also nominated Annette Bening are dangerous, which was passed over in their "American Beauty" a few years ago why they might have a slight advantage, as the jury. might think, "Well, the Portman has now played great, but that will do it again - she is still young Let us give. Golden boy of Bening, who gets so soon no leading roles anymore because it is so old already. ") Plays a ballet dancer.
Wow, now I have written a short sentence, which was extended artificially by a clamp over several lines and another word with three consecutive T contains. This is for bloggers as hard as for a ballerina, the white and black swan while dancing in a production of "Swan Lake" have to. And that, the ballerina in "Black Swan" are doing. The pressure they had to feel through this task can be, they are mad.
The madness unfolds in an incredibly dark Psychological thriller in which everything is right except the tagline on the movie poster ("A psychosexuller Thriller" - if the text reads any psychologist, he should confirm in the comments please, that the word "psycho-sexual" does not exist!).
director Darren Aronofsky creates what cinema can create, ideally, he will take the reality and shape it into a fantastic trip, it has a such a large force (in this case, two huge black swan's wing), that actually the largest possible canvas needs so he can go to the kidneys of the spectators.
Aronofsky creates the elegant but unsubtle. He accompanied the dancer with the same shaky camera, with which he pursued him the "Wrestler" in his last film. In this documentary look more and more he weaves a mythological-inspired motifs. Sun melts the act of "Swan Lake" with the actual film plot. The competitor who always dressed in white dancer appears and tattooed black swan's wing on the back. The competing swans so jump into it from fiction into reality.
can, on this basis can Aronofsky his thriller to a true descent into hell are, in which the main character literally transformed from the shy innocence in an aggressive swan. Aronofsky is not stingy with large images. The further he moves from the reality (ie the document camera) away in the sick mind of the dancer into it, the more space on the screen need his powerful film paintings.
appear in the ballet scene some people outraged to be about the movie. They accuse him of not realistically portray their daily lives. Maybe. But I do not think that was the aim of the film. Aronofsky is not primarily interested in the ballet scene. He wants to tell a dark trip into a dark psyche. Just as well could complain the police, that, in David Fincher's film "Seven" is not good away because Brad Pitt have to do investigations to do with reality
. On the contrary, the ballet scene is about a film like "Black Swan" . forward I was never particularly keen to see ballet. But in "Black Swan" is ballet as large, brilliant and fantastic presents that I actually like - and I will be probably not the only one - to get me to see something live:
The Green Hornet Viewed on: 14th January, 20.15 clock, Cinedom, Cologne Viewed with: a friend with whom I have always scheduling difficulties
"The Green Hornet" is not a good movie, but you sense that music clip and arthouse director Michel Gondry tries has to make a original movie. The comic title with the original music from the eponymous TV series with Bruce Lee indulges in trashy '60s aesthetic. It's more fun than the two hours of film, the the credits are headed.
It's almost a guy like Konstantin Neven DuMont (played by Seth Rogan), who fell out with his father following newspaper ridiculed. The father dies, and the son becomes the superhero "Green Hornet". Unfortunately, the newspaper publishing heir an extremely unsympathetic type. A narcissistic asshole, but which - such as "Iron Man" Tony Stark - has absolutely no charm. And in the course of the film not developed. Not even the reason why he becomes a super hero is honorable: He wants to cut the evil on the mouth because he intends nothing better first and second, want to feel cool. What the strategy is to be smart, their own newspaper to incite Green Hornet (ie himself), has developed me as much as the fact that help the friendly Chinese Kato and the friendly smiling Cameron Diaz to puke. The film would have been better would be the main character was really KND.
It is obvious that it should be thrown with the supposedly ambivalent character a new and original perspective on the superhero genre. But I could not dock at the main character. And certainly not because Green Hornet is going very brutal. Constantly thrashes the superhero his opponents (like sometimes accidentally) dead or shoots them down. This has been bothering me in their "Kick-Ass": Should a superhero does not embody decency and morality? Or at least try? Super heroes, who enjoy their opponents turn rivets are mass murderers - the opposite of what they should be. Many people may filmmakers that the kids of today can accept just killer as a hero - because they supposedly caused by computer games you kill are used to.
I do not think so. It is there for a reason why to this day figures such as Batman, Spiderman or the X-Men are consistently popular. Gondry's Green Hornet will be in ten years probably forgotten.
will hopefully be forgotten, the 3D-disease that even this Film is affected. Who will like me, that the effect does not look real, the image makes it unnecessary darker and less defined, for in movement makes interfering smears and often blurred effect, can read why this is so.
The thickness Pitter still silent. Yesterday was the 50erjahrecharmant yellowed pub "White Elderberry" filmed a singing evening for a documentary about German folk music. Also, the evening itself was 50erjahrecharmant, as shown by these two photos. Who can distinguish which image from the 50s and which is today?
In any case, I learned yesterday, a song from the still not enough known Cologne Chapel "taste" know is in which it is placed perfectly to the point why the thickness Pitter soon be ringing. Unfortunately, there is no audio file of the song, but here's the text:
En einzije Baustell vun Kaiser Willem- bes Ubierring
Vill Lärm un Jewummer bei däm he kei Minsch ens sing Roh fingk
Zom Takt vun nem Presslufthammer zuck 'ne Muskel en dinger Hätzkammer
Wie en Hi-Hat om Stav höpp ding Schädeldeck 'rop un erav
Doch met einem dumpfe Jlockenschlaach
bebefreit dinge Kopp sich vun all dä Saach
Un mer spetze de Lauscher un hüüre janz andächtig zo
Ref.
Wenn vum decke Pitter dä Jong ertönt
und et Klangpanorama vun Kölle verschönt
stonn uns' Ohre unger Strom
durch die deefe Stemm as of Dom
Ne amount Jedränge met horn un Schäng em Fierovendverkehr
Entjäjen dr Still - Motorenjebrülle - size: Ding eardrum et hard
Övverall Handyjebimmel un hum the Flugzeuje em sky
E Jeräuschekompott he em noisy Alldagsdrott
ref
Two Dotzend ton of metal grief mächtich en un zom sound momentum
Only janz selden zo hillijen moments paarmol e em
years as on "Amen" en un "Omm" is Danish Jlockenschlaach as of Dom!
I'm almost tempted again declare a Flashmob. Next Sunday, 11.45 clock, Domplatte: 50,000 people come to sing!
Azad Duwod can not imagine his "Büdchen Hätz met" on the post road ever give up. The kiosk is Cologne for him. And his second life. A scar on the neck is reminiscent of his former life. In 1991, the Iraqis was still in his training for nurses, as he had for his country to the front. "It was a nightmare," he says. "I have seen many friends die. And still I get scared when I see police officers."
Cologne was the first city he saw from Germany. But only ten years ago he could move to here. Since there was a tape and a marathon through the country behind the former asylum seekers. "I had very hard to learn German. Fortsetzug my training was at one of the question."
And so he became a German citizen and opened the kiosks to get a new life. And to the rest of the people in Veedel to be. People tell a young man that the kiosk was important for him to get rid of drugs. The people in the kiosks and Azad had been in difficult times of great help. "It was not just only go to the kiosk." It was as if you were to visit his family. "
Azad is sure: "I know almost everyone from the neighborhood's problems and concerns." And they are in good hands with him. "Almost everyone who comes here comes again." Kiosks are therefore also a good tool for integration? "And in any case," Marlies says Merscheid. She works for the Mars Company, and must attend at regular intervals Cologne 600 kiosks and check that the chocolate bars are designed for the purposes of the company and that expiry dates are beachet.
Marlies is just a kiosk in that municipality, which is operated by a German. "Among the operators, there are Turks, Albanians, Russians," she explains. "Most are now, a real Cologne." Marlene is originally from Westphalia. But with her pink-dyed hair and a matching pink reading glasses she proves that she is assimilated. Finally, it looks a little like a slightly paled "foot table Julchen" from.
"I see the world through rose-colored glasses imer. So I would say that working in kiosks to 99 percent great people," she says. After a ritual of coffee drunk it is to continue to Azad förhlich. "Here to begin the tour with a chat is always nice."
The pupils of primary school on the Greek market, the stress of the day have already passed. In the afternoon they attacked the kiosks over and buy one at Azad. It is likely Marlies forward by the Mars Company little about the product choices of young people. Azad positions the popular "Yamyam" bag of Snickers, Twix and Mars, because he knows that the best go away.
These are dry noodle soups that really need to be dissolved in water. But the kids crush the inside in plastic wrap and eat it pure. Kiosks are not just tradition - this will also create new trends.
Frank enters the ninth grade of primary school. She buys classic sweets to process in kiosks with her friends to school everyday. Together they listen to music from Franzis MP3 player. "Mom, thank you," Brings. Very appropriate in a Kölsch Place that feels a bit on the family.
parts of the text appeared in the Aachener Zeitung.
32nd Trading Day: Current account balance € 2,003.06
Hooray, it's done. The first doubling of capital for a total of 32 trading days. And with a very conservative trading strategy. It indeed haunt many forex trading strategies around the web, but I believe strongly that everyone can find his own trading strategy. As you can see in Sreenshot I think the first time a small position in Cable. I hope I'm well out of the trade, if not is not so bad, because SL is set. My loyal readers have noticed, I do not post every day. I want to annoy anyone with the daily Sreenshot. I am considering this now once a week to make. The decision is not final yet. You will see it, yes. Now I wish all readers first have a nice weekend. Have fun austüffteln your own forex trading strategy :-)
Since this blog in favor of the Advent in December was briefly absent, has accumulated so much film material that again an entire movie in a blog post is necessary.
Prolog time I start with a well, the classic movie logo. The lion roars Jackie for almost 90 years before every MGM movie. Last year he had to shout there is not much, because the film studio MGM is so broke that it can finance neither clean nor Jackie's pen the new James Bond film.
Too bad, because how cool would it be Jackie's bloodcurdling roar (which impresses me as a child always has) to experience in Dolby Surround and the lion, even in 3D?
Here comes one of the oldest versions of the logo. From a time when MGM was the greatest of all movie studios yet. One time, considered a golden era, though on the screen everything was black and white.
supporting film In Blogimblog will continue to live on the tradition that the movies unfortunately deserted Lion Jackie is: The supporting film. This time there is a documentary about a man from Cologne that has the Internet and at film schools something like cult status. The film has touched me. Although it can be seen as a freak show. But actually he is about movies that are made of dreams. And of great loneliness.
An unspectacular years to determine My five favorite films of last year during this time I do it. Actually I was - hardly impressed a movie really deep - in contrast to 2009. Not quite impressed, I of films such as "Mary and Max" and "Inception" was. But I was not really surprised at the cinema.
So I would describe as unspectacular 2010 cinema year, even if there was to see one or two very good movie. The future will show whether one of the 2010 film will be a classic.
PS. I unfortunately missed, "Banksy - Exit through the Gift Shop" and "Carlos - The Jackal" to be considered. But I have two films in the sense that they had made it into the Top 5.
film reviews Three Milarepa - The road to happiness Skyline Viewed in: Rex, Cologne, 28 December, 15 clock Filmpalette, Cologne, 28 December, 18 clock Cinedom, Cologne, 28 December, 20.15 clock Viewed with: a friend, the film received three visits in a row given a birthday of mine, so I will discuss all three films back to back.
a movie marathon with three films by three clock with the movie "Three" to start is either something very magical, or an unfortunate accident. Probably in this case, rather an unfortunate coincidence, because unfortunately disappointed us all three movies a little to much. The plan, a German film, an exotic and a commercial film was to be considered.
The German film is that of Tykwer, written about very much and to which I was (to stay even with the stupid numbers game) got three opinions: first
Tykwer can produce great. The film is full of wonderful little scenes that shine in which the main characters and everyday things can be transformed into a bizarre microcosm. (For example, when a culture reporter reports an oil well in the middle of the city and thereby meets a soccer-playing scientists.) second The film is told unconventional. First of all, Tykwer shows for 'Run Lola Run "again as a master the split-screen montage. As much as he probably did not get the same time another German director says in a minute. Tykwer also tried to tell the story is not linear and time again to turn into little side stories. The attempt to find honorable, but it leads to point three. third Why should you be interested in all this? In essence, the film tells of only two successful and basically very lucky people to discover both the unfaithful with the same man, then, that they are alien to the same man and then just start working with him was. The film is free from real conflicts and steer the side stories (such as a cancer-stricken mother) meht often actually the plot off than they would enrich him. Repeatedly flashes the possibility that a wonderful and unconventional romantic comedy unfolds. But every time any conflict is nipped in the bud. The end screams even then, the beginning of the actual (and very funny) story to be. But many great opportunities are always left aside.
Scent of rain we saw then, "Milarepa" at. The film of the Kingdom of Bhutan, of which I have heard that there are charged every tourist daily 100 dollars to the government must, disappointed because he was too conventional. Okay, accusations like "What does he want now" please Write in the comment providers.
But "Milarepa" - the Buddhist legend is based on a - to work more formulaic than most Hollywood films. Milarepa is a boy whose family is treated badly. He heads off to be wizard is back, making the lower flat Dücker the family, has remorse and goes into a cave to the lessons to learn Buddahs. Opens: Part 2 in June 2011.
A Buddhist Harry Potter movie so. But each lacks the magic completely. No piece can shimmer, everything seems so ponderous and uninspired as the West German fairy tale films, which was formerly the magical DEFA films wanted the East to compete.
Skyline The film finally becomes so bad that I really want to waste no time trying to write about him. Finally, the scrap has already robbed me of two hours of my life. But since I've made up my mind, every movie I see in the cinema discuss here, I like it or not a digital bucket of dirt full of make and dump him now:
The script, the director and the effects in "Skyline" Effects of Spcial people have been made. And because that can obviously tell just from their daily lives, it's about special effects people in coolest porn Loft living in LA. The loft they leave the whole movie, not because they watch through the large window Parnorama how the U.S. Army is fighting against aliens. And loses.
sit Probably the effects maker in reality every day in a floor of offices in LA and look at computer monitors, where they see large digital spectacle. When she should write a book, they probably thought, "Hey, why do not we write about some effect types that sit in a high-Days in the Valley home and watch through a window a digital spectacle?" And did not realize that they wrote about themselves. After all, they get what they have learned, very good point. So the effects.
Finish.
Book Review A friend told me last week recommended a book that I read on a train, although scream the German cover and the German title after Nicholas Sparks .
"Our best year of all" is in the original "The Film Club". It's about a father, his son every week as the three films (or grandchildren, and that over three years, so the German title nor lard makes much less sense). The 16-year-old has dropped out of school, and watching movies is Papas way to make the boy to come closer to him and understand him.
I am always weak at father-son story (probably the main reason for my great passion for Star Wars), I was also on the autobiographical novel, very thrilled. At the same time makes the book incredibly good mind for a long movie nights and teaches the reader the way in film history. What is "Sophie's World" for the philosophy, this book is for the film. Only with a much better story.
Here is an interview with the two protagonists:
Spielberg'sches End This time is the Blogimblog not do without Spielberg. Hach what I'm looking forward to December, when the hero of my youth, two heroes of my childhood to the movies brings:
The kiosks Ali Yildrim is sober "street cafe kiosk ". But it is at Eigelstein , who is with "music, the thick Rita and Fridolin" as a carnival center. Ali was born in Cologne and raised. He is an accomplished body builder, but has not found a job. "I had written at least 100 applications and never been lucky. Then I found some point the opportunity to shop from a friend to take over. "
A regular customer every week goes by, to drink his beer after work. The 24-year-old Christian is a cook in a nearby Kölsch pub. Two beers, then he drives his wife to cook for them. "I can tell you why your application was unsuccessful, Ali", he explains the Büdchenbetreiber his confidence. "Because you are a Turk. When the choice between a German and a foreigner, you always take the Germans, "the angry young chef. And" they "are, of course," those above ". And "up there" are not just in pubs but in kiosks-gossip talks always the bad guys.
Ali does not see himself as a foreigner. "I'm ne Kölsche young," he explained. And he enjoys his status in the district. A customer points out that the Büdchenbetreiber was one of the nicest people on Eigelstein. "Maybe sometimes too nice," he says. The crime would be more extreme in the quarter. The nearby Ebert Platz is a famous meeting place of drug dealers and junkies. In the past 10 years, four times in Ali's was broken into kiosks, three times he was attacked. More done to Ali, however, makes the smoking ban. "Since this is true, I have noticeable drop in sales, "he explains." Mornings are many workers to drink coffee and smoke a cigarette. "Since the construction workers breakfast limited to coffee, Ali sold every day of which only two instead of five canisters.
" And the glass ban at Mardi Gras! I can offer only then beer in cans. But sold far less. "At the moment he could hold but still heads above water. Only if he could keep the kiosks for ever, he did not." Rents on Eigelstein are not cheap. "Two kiosks were in lately district was closed. "This was partly because many kiosks not as comfortable are, "says Christian. Because he is happy, one that feels more real kölsch to have directly in the workplace.
parts of the text appeared in the Aachener Zeitung.
27th Trading Day: Current account balance € 1,768.53
The difference amounts to a total of + € 29.05 yesterday. I had yesterday evening after the post, set down a trade so the difference to Sreenshot. Everything ran short trades today. Announcing labor market data at 14:30 clock, I was safe side flat. As described in my first post today, the Bulls must now be a bit careful. The support is at 1.2962 was broken today at times already. I heard it go in the end no matter where the courses, the main thing is that my setup works.
The thickness Pitter - the largest bell of Cologne Cathedral -. silent since Thursday , as the clapper broke off suddenly
To the visitors of this blog to let the performers and to comply with my duty as a member of the Domsekte, I have therefore made the following plan thought:
THICKNESS PITTER DO NOT SILENCE
Although he would officially start again on Easter Sunday used come, but due to the circumstances and in honor of the cast-iron fellow, he should resound in my opinion, the very next Sunday. can To show the world that Dicker Pitter ringing in his worst hour!
therefore will gather on Sunday at 11.45 clock in front of the cathedral as many people as possible with Internet-enabled laptops or mobile phones in front of the cathedral. If it is then rung to the fair, all Flashmobber http://nullzwei.blogspot.com/ go to and play simultaneously from this video:
It will happen then two good things: First, of the cologne favorite bell ring out loud, secondly, of the cologne favorite blog experience a rush of visitors, second to none.
is the digital sound loud enough, to hear the bells can join in, at least - as I have several professional altar servers can be calculated - together are 50 000 people in front of the cathedral.
So Spread this post diligently to Sunday lunch. And if everything goes the way I imagine it, then I'll tell you my plan for world domination flash mob.
Supplement, 9 January:
11.45 clock, Domplatte:
Not quite 50 000 World Domination Flashmob been postponed.
But the plan is to trigger a rush of visitors to the blog worked, as well as the high-I-Like-button clicker number shows. Thank you for this! As a reward, there is later a Sonntagsbüdchen-XXL!