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s that i recommend without any reservation at all if you haven t seen it please don t read any more of this because this film really deserves to be seen with innocent eyes there are many wonderful characters in the film but no face is my favorite he s an example of what i m starting to think is my favorite kind of character the monster who isn t as a monster he s very powerful as demonstrated in the most destructive scene in the film when he runs amok in the bath house even yubaba s magic can t stop him also like most monsters he has a limited ability to communicate he can t really speak except by using someone else s voice in shall we say rather special circumstances he communicates mainly by gestures and a kind of soft moaning his mask also changes a little bit from the normal somewhat happy look seen above to surprised confused angry or sorrowful it s quite remarkable how expressive this simple mask is what he seems to want most desperately is a place to belong and a small measure of acceptance he doesn t demand love or admiration he seems as if he would be happy to be ignored as long as he was ignored among friends we get no hint of his origins and he remains a mystery to the end but that he s very lonely and has been for a long time is quite apparent in his first interaction with sen she shows him kindness by leaving a door in the bath house open so he can come inside out of the pouring rain in return he helps her to get a needed bath token when the guy in charge of such things refuses her sen s gratitude i get the impression this is the first emotional reaction no face has ever been given inspires him to procure a whole handful of tokens thinking that this is what one does to be accepted give people things and he s genuinely puzzled when she tells him she doesn t need and can t use any more tokens confused he continues to insist but she still can t accept the tokens he simply hasn t interacted with other beings before so he doesn t know the rules but he also doesn t give up he somehow takes note of the how the river god s gift of gold was received and tries his gift giving again creating gold nuggets which he gives to an eager bath house frog he s much more successful this time he then swallows the frog whole and begins taking on his physical characteristics and speaking with his voice and he seems to take on the frog s greed as well figuring i think that he s finally hit the right note that this must be the basis of friendship soon the other bath house attendants are fawning and fussing over him as he produces gold from his palms when the realization dawns on him that it s the gold that s been accepted and not him that s when he becomes monstrous he seems intoxicated by actually receiving emotional responses and is distressed that they re turning out to be false he demands to see sen the only person who has shown him genuine kindness he wants to be liked by her that seems to be the one thing in his world that has any meaning for him but he doesn t know how to be likeable all he s learned from the bath house is greed so he tries to offer her enormous handfuls of gold the one gift that has never been turned down again sen doesn t accept it and again no face can t understand this especially in contrast to the other workers when it s demonstrated that simply giving gifts is valueless as a means of friendship my impression is that he wants to smash the entire hollow world that he s constructed around himself and it s the bath house that suffers he does manage to cough up whole and unharmed everyone he s swallowed his rampage at the bath house is not the result of his monstrous nature instead it comes about because his desire for acceptance is only partially fulfilled partially because he seems to be the center of attention but this attention isn t about him we ve seen similar sequences in other movies where the unpopular nerd is treated nicely by the cool kids only to discover that they did so only because he just bought a cool car or has a winning lottery ticket or has a famous rock star hiding in his house in other words it s not because of who they are but what they have it s only natural that the bitterness that results is much more than simple disappointment you had everything you ever wanted and it all turned out to be hollow purged of the rage and greed as well as all the physical stuff he absorbed in the bath house this place makes him crazy sen observes he returns to his usual form meekly and humbly following sen as she undertakes a difficult journey in order to save haku s life and at the end of that journey he s the one who finds a home a place where he s accepted and his talents are appreciated if only all such monsters could find such a place probably the monster that comes closest to no face is boris karloff s version of the frankenstein monster he s another powerful being who s not monstrous at all he simply isn t beautiful looking and he can t communicate in erudite language which is ironically the one thing that probably best hides a man s nature from others but i digress i do that rather a lot you ve probably noted of course no face has one advantage over frankenstein s monster he doesn t look like a human being so we cannot look at ourselves and compare him unfavorably to us we are apples and oranges frankenstein s monster on the other hand was created specifically to look a lot like us and has clearly fallen short of any ideal with which he can be compared so yes it s appearance in this case that determines standing among monsters no face as the other can be seen more objectively than the frankenstein s monster s parody of humanity interestingly the baby in spirited away learns a similar lesson transformed into a mouse he s disappointed that his mother doesn t recognize him appearance and not our true nature has become the standard of judgment some might include godzilla or king kong in this misunderstood monster company but for me they re disqualified because the destruction they cause is clearly the end of their actions rather than a reaction to being disappointed by the world and themselves the hulk maybe ben grimm definitely day of the dead s bub yes why do i like such monsters probably because i am such a monster i have no idea what the social contract entails i just make up something that seems plausible or more likely copy what i ve seen others do on television i ve unwittingly caused pain because i didn t know what to do and i ve also stood there not knowing how to respond when a response was clearly needed each and every time i feel like i m just something odd hidden in a regular envelope i d sure like to find the place where i really belong this doesn t seem to be it i suspect a lot of people feel the same way like no face we re not destructive because we re monsters it s just that that is what monsters do so we must be monsters when we are destructive i also seem to create such creatures in my nanowrimo project i had a monster a destructive killing creature that could not be defeated no matter how brave and determined my hero but something changed my hand as i wrote and i suddenly found myself with a no face he immediately became my favorite character and story and world suddenly shaped themselves to accommodate his new nature except for the fact that he can t talk i would eagerly do another novel all about him well i say with a shrug they say all art is autobiography and every painting is a self portrait who am i to argue with them i like monsters standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on october 17 2005 posted under entertainment and culture thoughts and theories by any other name i went to see serenity this weekend and i liked it it was a fun movie with some interesting plot twists and turns and some really good special effects the whole thing was very intelligent and well thought out except for the title honestly when the word serenity appeared on the marquee of the local theatre my first thought and i can t be alone in this was oh hey it s one of those sensitive films about young girls coming of age i mean that even sounds like a tv show title where young women experience laughter heartbreak love and friendship all separated by carefully timed commercial breaks nothing wrong with that i hasten to add heck i like a good cry far more often than i should be admitting in public but that isn t here or there so the fact that it s a science fiction western may come as a shock to those of you who didn t dig too deeply and that s my main point the film is a spin off of sorts from a failed television series firefly something i never watched but fans have a passion that will not be dimmed at the imdb show times screen it was quite instructive to see that other films in the theatre i go had a few hundred votes some had four thousand or so but only serenity had over seventeen thousand that s quite a fan base and that s quite a fan base for a film that is let s face it preaching to the converted who is going to dig deep enough to see what this film is about and then go to see it other than me i mean people showing up for a sensitive chick flick are i hope going to be warned away from a pretty violent and sometimes gruesome science fiction shoot out people who are going to look for a science fiction shoot out are i guess watching something else on dvd since they may not be aware of this film but the firefly fan base they re going to be out en mass which turns out to be not much of a mass wouldn t it have been better to call the film something a bit more a propo like urm killer cannibals from space granted that would have tied into the schlock movie crowd like me and wouldn t have alerted the fans of quality idea films that here was something they might like but then the title serenity didn t do that either spoiler alert it s the name of the spaceship for despite the fact that i went to see it it dropped off the charts this weekend who s to blame well it s hard to say the whole set up is so insular that one imagines the fans of firefly and writer director joss whedon are equally to blame he made a film for them and they went to see it no one else was invited oh sure you might say all someone had to do was peruse a few message boards or read the synopsis or what have you and you d know what to expect and be there with bells on but that requires work as noted you ve got to go to the trouble to dig up info on the entertainment in question why put people to work like that why not make it easy for them why not try to tell people what you ve got on offer it might be argued that an arty title is the priviledge of the artist and his right to be true to his vision and i won t argue the point but films aren t just art they re commerce someone gave mr whedon almost 40 million dollars to make a movie wouldn t it have made sense to have as many folks as possible see the result so that if it was a huge success he might make another one the second argument is that such actions might delute the cult it won t be cool and hip man if everyone goes to see it no no it is only for the select few the enlightened ones and i m going to stop there before i get too scowly i don t have much patience with fans who desire that an artist in whatever field remain their exclusive property and if that artist becomes a success he has therefore sold out the surprising thing was i was able to pick up on the story and characters with minimum confusion i may not have had the rich experience a firefly fan might have had but clearly mr whedon was persuaded that potential newbies had to be brought up to speed the exposition was quite cleverly handled so it may be too late if you missed it and that sounds like something you d like if you re a firefly fan you ve probably already seen it and if you re a firefly fan perhaps you can answer a question for me the reavers in the film are a group of completely psychotic space cannibals in the film they appear totally out of control and completely in thrall to their passions howling and rawring all the while they seem to be 28 days later s rage victims of the future how in the heck are they able to avoid killing each other let alone organize how the heck can they fly spaceships standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on september 14 2005 posted under entertainment and culture machines and what they bring thoughts and theories comments 3 comments all that noise all that sound well i finally bought the coldplay cd the one with speed of sound on it i just couldn t get that song out of my head so i went out and got it thus succumbing to i guess peer pressure i did however wait for a couple of months so coldplay s fifteen minutes are pretty much over so it wasn t like i was succumbing to good peer pressure i also bought a doctor who dvd at the same time so it wasn t like coldplay was my only goal defensive aren t i the reason i hesitated so long was that i was pretty sure speed of sound would be the only really good song on it and i was mostly right don t get me wrong the rest of it is at least agreeable and there s a clever re working of the riff from kraftwerk s computer love that s er clever but it s basically u2 sonic mush shaped into some riffs and keening vocals notice i don t say it s u2 like or u2 esque this is basically a u2 record that they didn t make themselves chris martin and bono have very similar voices martin s voice is sweeter but bono s is more powerful but the guitarists for the bands could be evil twins to each other the only thing i can figure is that coldplay must have been really scared by u2 some time in their collective past and they ve been trying to work out some kind of therapy this way that s not really what i want to write about though it struck me that a cd as a container of music is a fixed product one generally has the idea that it should hold a certain amount of music anywhere from 35 minutes at the extreme acceptable low end to over an hour anything less than 35 minutes seems like unused potential at best or a cynical rip off at worst so i imagine that any conscientious band not wanting to appear parsimonious to their fans probably puts some less than stellar material out just so the cd format seems to be a reasonable value to the potential consumer but doesn t this mean that the overall quality of the cd is diluted sure we re consumers but we re also listeners back when vinyl was the standard this good stuff on this coldplay cd would have made an outstanding ep as in play it til the grooves wear out as a cd the sheer length means the excellent track speed of sound and the couple of very good tracks are drowned in a sea of okay not bad noise granted the band members probably think all the songs are great but they re not writing this are they it seems to me that as our entertainment technology continues to advance performers are being asked to adapt not only to the technology but to the changing needs of the consumer so whereas once a recording 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