Yes, after a 14 month hiatus I decided to write something...and this is it, sorry my starved audience of one.
I was actually pondering the kinds of movie gore out there. This came about from describing the 127 Hours movie to a particularly finicky movie goer. Now, I have not yet seen the film so what I am saying is fully based on a review that I heard. The reviewer ascertained his listeners that the movie is not that bad. I passed on this assertion.
I of course started wondering if it’s true since I just caught myself spreading someone else’s word, and a new and unproven reviewer at that. Could it be true that chewing of one’s arm on the big screen could be not that bad?
I believe that yes, if anyone can do it, it's Danny Boyle, his gore is short and piercing and overwhelming and out the door you go. The dead baby in Trainspotting...Wow, I did not know that I can stop my heart beat for that long. But then it's business as usual. Gauging eyes out in Slumdog Millionaire? I actually closed my eyes for that scene- I think, but when it was done ,it was over.
How about the other end of the spectrum, the lasting, lifer chill of David Lynch gore? Yeah, fire walk with me...

Transylavania vs. Inland Empire

Both pictures are the directors bests and are respectively my No. 1 and No. 2 at least current pics. Transylvania is a vivid linear tale that will be at the forefornt of my cortex for a while to come and than begin beating around the shadier areas of the mind, never leaving. That feeling is mine to carry.

Inland Empire is grand, perfectly timed, intricate, and well confusing, something to be watched over and over for the trip that it is. How lucky am I to get Lynch to shoot in Poland? Jeez where was I when that was being made...ahh yeah the derailing of my destiny is a different story altogether...

Both really hit close to two different hearts of Poland and of me by extension. Transylvania speaks to the folk roots, Zakopane, achordeons, folk costume, all the colors and energy that is a base to Polish anything.This folk heart is also what was really repressed when i was growing up. Thankfully I had my village summers to pick it up. That beauty does not leave.

Inland Empire masterfully grips the mystrery and tragedy and the waning energy of pre war Poland. How is this even possible for a non Pole? Maybe it is easier being an outside observer or maybe that is the attraction to Lynch that he always worked that mind set into his pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Empire_(film)