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The Boy And The Heron and Other Stuff
Dec. 25th, 2023 11:11 pmGoing to be honest I'm a little disturbed that my first Christmas in Minneapolis for a while and it's... rainy. Not snowy, no. It's raining outside. There's something seriously wrong with that.
Anyway, to make my brother's gift to me simple I asked him to just take me out to a movie on Christmas and we went to see The Boy and The Heron which is a movie that leaves much to think about, but also, my brother somehow found tickets to a subbed showing rather than a dubbed showing, and I was particularly looking forward to hearing Robert Pattinson as the gray heron and I didn't get that. I'm not sure if my brother was just not paying attention when he bought the tickets or what...
I guess on the movie -- it was very Miyazaki. I guess what's interesting from a Western perspective is that Western aesthetic is a sign of the exotic otherworldly here in a pretty straightforward way. Like I know a lot of anime will pull from western stuff as it's exotic in a way that tends to fly under the radar to westerners, but this one... didn't? Or maybe I am just seeing something differently than I did before.
Either way. I am still trying for a new username. I've started typing up the novel again as I have over a hundred pages to type up. I don't think it's really close to done, though. I feel like it's mostly cathartic at this point. Though I dream of publication, it's possible that this is too personal... or too much like garbage. Whatever.
Anyway, to make my brother's gift to me simple I asked him to just take me out to a movie on Christmas and we went to see The Boy and The Heron which is a movie that leaves much to think about, but also, my brother somehow found tickets to a subbed showing rather than a dubbed showing, and I was particularly looking forward to hearing Robert Pattinson as the gray heron and I didn't get that. I'm not sure if my brother was just not paying attention when he bought the tickets or what...
I guess on the movie -- it was very Miyazaki. I guess what's interesting from a Western perspective is that Western aesthetic is a sign of the exotic otherworldly here in a pretty straightforward way. Like I know a lot of anime will pull from western stuff as it's exotic in a way that tends to fly under the radar to westerners, but this one... didn't? Or maybe I am just seeing something differently than I did before.
Either way. I am still trying for a new username. I've started typing up the novel again as I have over a hundred pages to type up. I don't think it's really close to done, though. I feel like it's mostly cathartic at this point. Though I dream of publication, it's possible that this is too personal... or too much like garbage. Whatever.
