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Only thing I'm saying about tonight.

Crazy Ruggers!

Lovely lot the Maori's, as long as you don't piss them off. Essentially a warrior race their entire social structure is based on kicking the utter shit our of each other/anyone else. Kinda like Scotland without the hear attacks.

I'm a football fan through and through, I admire the grit of rugby but prefer the skill of football. Nevertheless this still scares the utter shit out of me. I'm not sure if I'm more impressed at the Haka, or the Welsh lads ability to lookslightly miffed, rather like they're stuck in a particularly long queue at Woolworths.

Funny Games.

What?

So I've been busy, working hard to become indispensable so the credit crunch doesn't rape me of my disposable income.

Anyway I bought Funny Games on Sunday, I'd heard quite a but about it but just hadn't gotten round to buying it.

Brilliant, absolutely, unequivocally brilliant.

Without going in to too much detail this is the most amazingly self-aware film I've ever seen. It's unashamedly art-house but never in a patronizing pseudo-congratulatory manner. This is a film that leads you in pretense through the motions of a 3 act Hollywood-by-numbers thriller but then takes great pleasure upsetting genre conventions to disrupt the plot and take the audience straight out of the narrative with a sly wink and a vicious squeeze around your jugular. As soon as I realised my celluloid preconceptions where being toyed with, I became hyperconscious to the films structure and critical message.

There’s a key scene when, your fragile preconceptions of how western narrative should proceed are rewarded, but then immediately "rewound" taking away our relief and our catharsis. Having a look at reviews and comments I can see why people get so pissed off at this scene, because it robs them. It takes away the vicarious revenge we want from these types of films and leaves us with questions.

It's the only contemporary film where an audience really does invest time and play a particular role in, even if it is to remind them that they play no role at all.

Awesome, self-referential, thought-provoking film.

"So much stress for politeness sake" -paul

Don't you know that I could use somebody...

somebody like you.

Giggle.

Go on, I fucking dear you not to laugh.