Lazy Sunday

Another lazy Sunday - after an exciting, fun-filled Saturday - doing laundry and catching up on recent movies so far. I just finished watching a fantastic movie, Mirrormask, translated to the silver screen from a young adult's book written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. There is nothing short of amazing, modern imaginative computer graphics in this modern day Bildungsroman produced by the Jim Henson Company. What is most remarkable is how, quite literally, the book is animated in the movie - it being a typical Neil Gaiman fabulist and inspirational tale with a multi-layered plot: one part identity fable, two part meta-fictional allegory.

The second movie, which I finished viewing in the early hours of the morning, is Jared Hess's newest slapstick or knockabout comedy Nacho Libre. Jack Black is perfect as Nacho, the absurd Friar who dreams of becoming a 'Luchador' to win fame and fortune in the name of his own fold of impoverished orphans. A great movie to watch, in my eyes, if you can appreciate the usual vaudeville gags and routines of modern comedy: the funny man as Victim, the double-act, verbal wit, obscene jokes about the body, parody and caricature, in other words, slapstick or knockabout comedy.

UPDATE: Watching the modern medieval-romance movie, Tristan and Isolde starring such names as James Franco, Sophia Myles and the likes, for the second time.