Advantages: More polished, stronger tracks Disadvantages: Less commercial, less funny
“You’ll never live like common people / You’ll never do what common people do”. That’s what Jarvis Cocker proclaimed way back in those wondrous Britpop days of 1995 in Pulp’s working class anthem Common People. Which is a strange thing to say when you think about it. Those of us who are middle class cannot be working class, but it seems that the opposite can happen if WeLove Life is any way to judge by it. Because, you see, Cocker and friends come across very bourgeois on this album. It’s all about gardens and nature, not seedy things like pornography and growing old addressed in this album’s direct predecessor, the dark This Is Hardcore. WeLove Life therefore shows a more bourgeois Jarvis, somewhat more upbeat, but the heart of Pulp is still beating.
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Advantages: A film of rare beauty; by turns humane, perverse and tender Disadvantages: None
respond to the letters she writes (and again never will).
But back to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter? and Spring. Like so many of Kim Ki-Duk's films there is almost no dialogue whatsoever (the mute woman in The Isle, technically isn't mute, we see her on the phone even if we never hear her voice; in 3 Iron of the two protagonists one speaks three words and the other none at all). Many people who take issue with subtitles then have little to worry about, for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter? and Spring is a lyrical, visually beautiful film that works as a visual poem, by turns disturbing (as all of Kim Ki-Duk's work are, on some level) and deliciously hypnotic. Ki-Duk clearly has a love for things 'floating'. As in The Isle, where holidaymakers come to stay in floating huts on a lake, in Sping the Buddhist Monk and his disciple live in ...
Advantages: great shorts Disadvantages: those mugging kids again and only 3 shorts instead of 5 on this disc
Seeing as my children and I greatly enjoyed the shorts on Everybody Loves Mickey, a bit later on we decided to rent more of these titles. This happened to be the next one in the Everybody Loves series that was sent to us by Amazon. Like the Mickey Mouse edition, this DVD contains vintage animation shorts featuring the title character, interspersed by children mugging at the camera saying how much they love Donald Duck. These clips are just as excruciating as the last, but thankfully even briefer. Sadly, so is the number of film shorts, there only being three animation shorts present on this disc. They are:
The Inferior Decorator
Made in 1948, this clip sees the irascible Donald doing his best to decorate his house. He's got wallpaper to hang, and a pesky bee ventures in. Buzzing about, it doesn't take much for this bee to set off ...
