lördag, oktober 02, 2004
On this day:

The horrible state of swedish movietheaters

So we went to the movies this evening. It was me, Kata, Katas Father and Katas litle sister. Her mother is away on some course or other. First of we were going to prebook the tickets via SFs (SF is one of the two cinemacompanys that is spread in Sweden, and is the most common one. There is some small indepent cinemas too) homepage. First of it sucks, Kata wrote a review of it for her webdesign course and it was a great one. First of, Flash for booking is not good, allthough you might choice where you want to sit, there is simpler methods that don´t demand that much download. Secondly they charge you for the booking via the Internet. If we booked it via the Internet we would get the best seats according to the computer, obsouvlsy there was something wrong in the algorithm as out on the left corner is not the best place. Instead we bought the tickets in the theater and got great places, middlerow, middleseats. Oh, now lets get to the movie it self.

Its hard to talk about it without maybe spoling it, but I should try. First of the end would be really nice to discuss it was made for that I felt. The movie is about a famous conductor how gets burnt out and returns to his childhoods village, with a new name. So no one will know he once where there. It portrais the life in the countryside of Sweden quite good, but some part is probable verry much of the North. It´s also have that sort of apeal to all clases as Elizabethian drama somedays have, the director/writer seems to have thought of all kind of publics and those have some fore all. There is a wonderfull scene where a priest stands and scream something like "i am
humble!". The movie drifts with the stress of modern society, village peoples way of closeing their eyes and dislikeing newcomers (this part I have personal knowledge of) and of the churhes way of impending sin on everyone. The movie really holds the classist way of building up for a catastrophy, it happends three times. The inspirations feels like the classic dramas and the bible, probably some old 1960´s dramas may have have an impact. I got two lusts after coming out of this movie, one was to sing in a choir (but I cant sing, allthough I was in one schoolchoir once, but I can´t sing anyway) and the second was to write drama. Well, together with reading some of Wildes stories that is.