#29: Last film you watched

I thought 'hang on a minute—isn't this Day #12?' But yes, it differentiates between films seen in the cinema compared with films I've watched in general.

Well, the last film I watched was at the cinema, Sleeping Beauty. I had these Dendy vouchers I wanted to use up so organised to meet my boyfriend at Dendy Newtown to see The Tree of Life. Unfortunately, due to train dramas we missed the start of The Tree of Life so we decided we'd try and catch the later session.

WELL, the later session was at 9.20pm and for a two-and-a-half hour movie, that would've made it incredibly difficult for me to get home. I saw Sleeping Beauty was also playing—I missed it at the Sydney Film Festival—and that the next session was at 9.10pm and at a respectable one-and-a-half hour running time.

So thanks to Cityrail, two more people saw Sleeping Beauty than would have ordinarily.

I liked it more than my boyfriend did. It was aesthetically quite cool and distant, which corresponded with the main character's (Emily Browning) encounters as she drifts from day to day, never really engaging with anyone or anything with any warmth.

Unfortunately, this meant that it lacked was audience empathy. I would say that about half of the audience in the cinema didn't care about her, or what happened to her. There were also lots of nipples.

However, there was the compulsion to want to know what was behind the things that happened—the creepy lingerie waitressing gig and the nude sleeping gig—which intrigued until the end. This was not climactic enough to make it a good film, I'm sorry to say, but I still thought of it as an interesting piece that was worth watching.

Day 30 - Five films that mean a lot to you.

Twenty-one categories of this meme are from Books and Movies and Wordsmithsonia. The rest of the categories are my own creation.