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Jan. 23rd, 2022 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikeI had been wanting to see Silent Night, the most recent film featuring Keira Lovely Knightley.(Though she also has a several-second cameo in Greed if anyone needs a quick fix.) I'd hoped to see it in the cinema but it didn't come to Edinburgh, so when I found out it was online rental, I chose it for Triv Group Film Night. Initially we'd planned to do it a bit closer to Christmas so the thematics also made sense. I had been a bit confused, to be honest, why it wasn't wider release, and more of a push for a Christmas film released around Christmas.
I knew already that it was sort of mid-apocalypse and as well as meeting for a Christmas house party it's also a goodbye party because the end of the world is coming. I didn't know that rather than it being a nice clear cut "meteor will blow up the earth and there will be no earth" it was a poisonous gas coming, and everyone had been given a suicide pill(well, everyone in the house party, not homeless people or "illegal immigrants" because the government didn't think they counted) to make the choice between taking that and taking their chances with the poisonous gas. Oh, and the parents have to make that decision about killing their children, too. So it starts out quite like a fairly standard posh people meeting for a weekend party with a few twists, and then more undercurrents becoming full on big surface waves and conversations between the 12ish year old boy and his parents like "you can't love me if you want to murder me" and posh people being horrid to each other and very darkly funny moments and then it's all unremittingly bleak with still jokes and the only black woman in the group gets murdered rather than deciding for herself and she was the only one who wasn't HORRID AND SELFISH and she just wanted to play board games! And it would have been very nice of her to come to the house of her girlfriend's horrid friends for normal Christmas, but for her LAST NIGHT ALIVE my god she deserved so much better. When it was over we were quite rattled and I felt the need to apologise to Nuala in particular for making her watch a film about having to decide whether or not to kill your children during a pandemic, but it was certainly a memorable film. I think after quite a long gap I will watch it again. Maybe I'll make it a Christmas tradition to watch it and traumatise new people each time.
In nicer Christmas media news I just watched the Only Connect "Cold" special and loved Victoria Coren Mitchell's snowflake outfit. I have enjoyed all of her outfits this year and learning that they were a tribute to Moira Rose off of Schitt's Creek only increases that. Like many people I had assumed that they were a Taskmaster thing but I am delighted to find that it's just her own desires. She was exactly what I'd hoped on Taskmaster. I think less of Greg Davies (whom I love) for not giving her more marks for her excellent joke prize items.
On the end of year meme which I regret seeming to have stopped, there was a question about how one's style has changed/what clothing trends you embraced or something like that, which was traditionally answered by most people I knew with a handwave about no longer having to be in thrall to fashion, or having found one's style years ago. Well for absolute years I have resisted anything akin to tucking things in, for a variety of reasons including still resenting having to tuck a shirt in at school, disliking the feel of it and often not liking the way it looks with larger breasts and a generous stomach - but yesterday for the first time I think ever I put on a new top that I felt was slightly too long, thought "why not try it" and essayed a sort of French tuck and enjoyed what I saw. So even if I never do it again that's a new trick for this old dog.
I knew already that it was sort of mid-apocalypse and as well as meeting for a Christmas house party it's also a goodbye party because the end of the world is coming. I didn't know that rather than it being a nice clear cut "meteor will blow up the earth and there will be no earth" it was a poisonous gas coming, and everyone had been given a suicide pill(well, everyone in the house party, not homeless people or "illegal immigrants" because the government didn't think they counted) to make the choice between taking that and taking their chances with the poisonous gas. Oh, and the parents have to make that decision about killing their children, too. So it starts out quite like a fairly standard posh people meeting for a weekend party with a few twists, and then more undercurrents becoming full on big surface waves and conversations between the 12ish year old boy and his parents like "you can't love me if you want to murder me" and posh people being horrid to each other and very darkly funny moments and then it's all unremittingly bleak with still jokes and the only black woman in the group gets murdered rather than deciding for herself and she was the only one who wasn't HORRID AND SELFISH and she just wanted to play board games! And it would have been very nice of her to come to the house of her girlfriend's horrid friends for normal Christmas, but for her LAST NIGHT ALIVE my god she deserved so much better. When it was over we were quite rattled and I felt the need to apologise to Nuala in particular for making her watch a film about having to decide whether or not to kill your children during a pandemic, but it was certainly a memorable film. I think after quite a long gap I will watch it again. Maybe I'll make it a Christmas tradition to watch it and traumatise new people each time.
In nicer Christmas media news I just watched the Only Connect "Cold" special and loved Victoria Coren Mitchell's snowflake outfit. I have enjoyed all of her outfits this year and learning that they were a tribute to Moira Rose off of Schitt's Creek only increases that. Like many people I had assumed that they were a Taskmaster thing but I am delighted to find that it's just her own desires. She was exactly what I'd hoped on Taskmaster. I think less of Greg Davies (whom I love) for not giving her more marks for her excellent joke prize items.
On the end of year meme which I regret seeming to have stopped, there was a question about how one's style has changed/what clothing trends you embraced or something like that, which was traditionally answered by most people I knew with a handwave about no longer having to be in thrall to fashion, or having found one's style years ago. Well for absolute years I have resisted anything akin to tucking things in, for a variety of reasons including still resenting having to tuck a shirt in at school, disliking the feel of it and often not liking the way it looks with larger breasts and a generous stomach - but yesterday for the first time I think ever I put on a new top that I felt was slightly too long, thought "why not try it" and essayed a sort of French tuck and enjoyed what I saw. So even if I never do it again that's a new trick for this old dog.
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Date: 2022-01-23 06:32 pm (UTC)This household is with you all the way on VCM. The bike riding Taskmaster episode was a great thing. Eldest made me listen to her on the OffMenu podcast on a car journey and she made Ed Gamble and James Acaster very sad by selecting a ploughman's as her favourite meal.
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Date: 2022-01-23 07:41 pm (UTC)I love that episode of OffMenu! I love how straightforwardly weird she is, taking her own microwave away with her and making it sound perfectly reasonable. I love that she chose a ploughmans, and had no truck with her awful brother's stupid foodie ways.