"Walking side-by-side with death, The devil mocks their every step, The snow drives back the foot that's slow, The dogs of doom are howling more..."
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I had a bit of a complicated relationship with my father for the biggest part of my almost 53 years. The relationship between his parents was not one that I ever considered all that loving unless one considers nitpicking a language of love, so I understand very well that…
"You're in over your head."
"Maybe. But this is how I'll catch my killer."
"I'm not going to confess all my secrets just because I have an orgasm. You won't learn anything I don't want you to know."
"Yes, I will. Then I'll nail you."
"Nah. You'll just fall in love with me."
"I'm in love with you already. But I'll nail you anyway. You can put that in your book."
I was still living in Brazil in 1992 when…
"You seem a little nutty."
"I am."
Diva is one of those movies that's more of an experience than it is a film. It's got such a vibe to it that's really kinetic and left me remembering Luc Besson's Subway all the way through it, though the stories couldn't be more different. They just both share this odd sense of odd art decoration, with Subway taking place mostly underground and Diva on the streets of France and in the moped…
"I got 'em boxed in like a turtle's pecker."
There were parts of this that I remember clearly like the elephant and the Bandit being a drunk at the beginning after losing Carrie. There's a whole lot more that I don't remember like Buford T. Justice's giant family of lawmen from various locations. This one just doesn't seem like it would work as well for a nine or ten year old, which I would have been at the time it…
"He's a wife beater, Dan! Use the gun!"
I always love when Herbert makes these commands to Dan because he's clearly who should be in charge, despite the fact that everything he does leads to mass hysteria and he should be the last person to ever take advice from.
"Why you pursue something is as important as what you pursue."
Jake Gyllenhaal is creepiness personified in the character of Louis Bloom. He shares a number of personality traits with a certain Travis Bickle, but Lou learns fast. He does the research. He knows just enough to make himself very dangerous. To the people he works with. To the people he films. And to anyone who might get in the way of him getting his story. Even the story is…
