Queen
I met Ruby to watch The Queen yesterday, she mentioned I looked much calmer than ever before, she asked why, I thought about it and said “ perhaps its because this is the beginning of the end? “ Yes it is the beginning of the end; of a project I started since December 2005. I’ve often compared it to being like pregnant with an illegitimate child, embarrassed to talk about it, and weighed down immensely by it. Finally it is almost done, and my job will soon be over, the other part would be up to the rest of the world to judge.
The Queen was strangely entertaining, and Ruby and I enjoyed it immensely. It’s just refreshing to see political / public figures we recognize briefly, but not too well, being represented in their personal (fictional) space. I say it’s a symptom of reality TV. Its sympathetic towards the monarch, very much so, and in fact the public outburst upon reflection does seem a bit like an over hyped public frenzy, especially so in the movie.
I watched Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue yesterday at the media resource library, the behind the scenes feature showed him talking about one scene in the movie where Juliette Binoche’s character soaked up coffee with a sugar cube.
The director relates how his production team tested all kinds of brands of sugar cubes to see which one would be able to soak up the coffee completely within 5 seconds – nothing more and less. Any longer and he thinks the audience wouldn’t be able to take it, anything less and it would be too short. This is the kind of “analism” and vision needed to make a director a DIRECTOR.
