I saw today's movie Once at the 9pm showing and my friend Hikari and I were the only people in the theater. We did not know anything about it when we bought the tickets but when we walked out we were the biggest Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova fans and also their band The Swell Season. This movie is great. It is one of those great stories that does not have any sex or much swearing (I think when people swear in an accent it is not really swearing) but you really connect with the characters.
The story follows a guy who repairs Hoovers and plays heartfelt music that he writes in the streets of Dublin and a girl who plays piano. They meet each other and end up making beautiful music together. There is a little bit of a love story there too. The song that made this movie famous is "Falling Slowly." I believe that it won an Academy Award. The movie is shot with what looks like home video quality. The camera zooms in and out and such. According to Wikipedia it was shot with a $160,000 budget. But that really adds to the overall feel of the movie that I think they were looking for, just nothing fancy. Just music and the emotion that goes along with that music.
During their journey to make beautiful music we also get to see what it is like to live on little income in Dublin and see some beautiful shots of the city. It is amazing to see what Glen can do with a guitar that has a hole in it and in duos with Marketa on pianos in a music shop. They both also wear their scarves through most of this movie. I think that might have something to do with the current trend of wearing scarves all the time, no matter the weather. Even though this movie was made in 2005/2006.
There is a part in this film where the guy goes to have dinner at the girl's house and they speak a lot of Czech in front of him (he does not speak Czech). It reminds me of when I went to France and everyone spoke a lot of French in front of me. I had no idea what was going on because they were speaking so fast and casually. My French learning was so formal, slow, and so American that there was no way I could keep up. But I loved just listening to them- it sounded beautiful.
I know in an earlier post I mentioned that as a floor you could make a video to accompany a film. But I think that making a song as a floor is the best way to program with this movie. You could get together whatever kind of talent you have among you and create an original floor production. Maybe you could even keep that video and use it as part of your RA interview when you reapply. It is fun to see residents and RAs doing something awesome like that together. I can just picture some table drums and the nose harmonica being featured in this song. I love it.
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