2014-10-21 Proven / ®ight.

2014-10-21          Proven / ®ight.  

                'Are you' the wife played by Jessica Chastain askes it better of her husband, played by Michael Shannon, in this great movie, Jeff Nichols III's Take Shelter, 'kidding?'  'A storm is 'a come like no other,' Shannon's Curtis Laroche warns the other townspeople better in an earlier scene, and despite their tsk-sk'ing, Curtis he is proven / ®ight, are you / kidding is all / we gots.

                Curtis prepares for the coming apocalypse in Take Shelter by impulse-buying a 20-foot sea container, and kitting it out for the End / of the World.  Cin's spine has more twists and turns than the Mississippi, between the shoulder tackles, hit-and-runs, and gigs sharpening knives for eight hours a day, innit DD, but the end of this movie stills sends shivers up what's left of it.  Everone thinks Curtis is out / his mind, until of course they don't, but by then dear reader you guessed it, it's too / late. 

                Course this movie was a left-over, dating from last night's edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and proven / ®ight.  Still, rather than cintinue to rack up an already metasizing wireless bill playing U2 for the umpeenth time, let’s videe Take Shelter again, this time with the Director and Michael Shannon going on and on and on in the background of the 'Extra' bit, as is Cin's habit as he hulk-smashes away at this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and proven / up on out on up on out on up up in here.

                Sometimes the movie that Cin is after eviewing's 'extra' / 'special features' bits is good up on out on up on out on up on the telee, but this / is not one of them.  These two spend a cinordinate amount of time pointing out what storms scenes in the movie are - or are not - CGI / Computer Generated Imagery - generated.  'People were just saying' Michael Shannon says it better of a scene, 'retarded / things' surely that is no longer the 'preferred' - John Goodman's Walter in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski says it better of the title character's referring to Chinese folks as 'chinks' - 'nomeclature', 'my father is Chinese' Cin and his droogies used to say it better growing up, and pulling their eyelids /up, 'my mother is Japanese' - here they pulled their eyelids / down - 'and I'm just' came the punch-line as they pulled one eyelid up, and the other eyelid down, 'a crazy mixed-up / kid', a ©®azy mixed-up / kid is all / we gots.

                Course some actors swear up and down that they never videe themselves in their movies, even the first time, and Cin winces sometimes when he videes what he's hulk-smashed away up on out on this Take This Thing Back to Baltimoreme-moirs and proved / ®ight, during the arbitrary 'editing' part of the procedure - whereby Cin checks his e-mail and an uploaded edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and proven / ®ight just happens to be up on out on up in that ©inbox (hooker please –id., what is that, some kind of a glo®y / hole ?) - but he leans towards the former group of actors who would rather eat glass than videe what they did on-screen and / or hulk-smashed away at earlier editions of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and proven /  ®ight . 

                 Jessica Chastain, while 'nice to look at' as a fellow-reviewer said it better about Lindsay Lokan, aka 'LiLo', in Confessions of a Teen-age Drama Queen (don’t / aks –id.) is also a formidable actress (actor ? ), managing to cinvey (convey, to Cin -id.) her cincern (that’s enough –id..) about her wild-eyed hubbie.  Michael Shannon of course is a giant of an Irishman, 'we are jolly green giants' the sergeant in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket says it better to his marines, 'wandering / the earth.'

                'I am' Shannon says it better as the hitman in Boardwalk Empire on the telee - after he has gunned down and / or knifed and / or garroted his most recent trio of victims -'relaxed', when his partner after videeing this carnage tells Shannon's hitman to do / the same,  relaxed is all / we gots.

                'There were two scenes is the film' the Director says it better of the same - referring to the depictions of the two main characters trying to figure out / what's happening - 'when the crew sat around, and realized that we weren't making / a TV movie', or 'a student / film' Michael Shannon makes the same point, though somehwat offensive to student films, innit Jarvis Grimes is Dead, Either Way.  And for a change the director is right, innit Cash, in the scenes when Shannon and Chastain have at it as a blue-collar couple dealing with End Times, it's a®t, a®t is all / we gots.

                Film bites off more / than it can chew, biting off more than we can chew is all / we gots, 'your mother' the one-scene shrink says it better to this effect to Shannon's Curtis Laroche 'was a paranoid / schizophrenic', as though mental hereditary mental illness was a pre-requisite for seeing Things as They Really / Are.  Still, the scenes with Curtis's mother, who lives in a retirement home - though that verb and that noun do not really belong / in the same sentence - are touching / enough, 'you're likeable / enough' Barack Obama destroyed his debate opponent better back in two thousand ought-eight, it's a great line that passes as a back-handed compliment but is actually / the opposite, 'Hillary', the director of this film you can tell from his commentary and tone / of voice has not looked much into the mouths / of madness, likeable / enough is all / we gots.

                Michael Shannon bites off and then chews on the scenery during the aforementioned scene at the Elks Club orwhatnot, going on and on and on about the storm 'a coming, and how no one / is prepared fer it.  'He used to go out after filming,' Karen White, who played Christopher Walken's John Smith's love interest in David Cronenburg's take on your The Dead Zone, innit Mr. King - referring to Walken during the 'Extras' bit of that film, sadly still not part of Cin's permanent collection of horror films, though certainly part of his permament / record, amongst other / things and horror films - 'and we'd be worried about him, given what he'd left / on the set.  But then he'd come back the next day, and all / was well', going out after filming, and we'd be worried about him, given what he'd left / on the set, but then coming back the next day, and all / was well is all / we gots.

                Cin thinks that your men the cats Itchy and Scratchy may be paranoid / schizophrenics, the way that they're carrying / on.  Your man the cat Itchy as of late let out a shriek in the direction of the fridge, this after five years of almost total / silence, and your man the cat Scratchy chooses to lie on / the hardwood floor, and not on one of the other more hospitable perches up on out on up on out on up in the cindominium.  Now that's / hard, like Cin when you videe your man the cat Itchy at flat-out rest on the floor you think / he's kilt, like Cin, Scratchy sleeps like / the dead.

                'It's 45 % cinematography' Michael Shannon says it self-defacingly enough at the end of the 'Extra' bits of the movie, '45% editing, and 10 % everything  / else,' to which the Director Nichols of course must object, though he does so gracefully, without grovelling, 'I don't know', he says - rather than reversing the percentages and giving more weight to / the human element of 'everything else', i.e the actors - 'that I agree with that / assessment', not agreeing gracefully without grovelling, is all / we gots.

                Ending of the film itself is deliberately ambiguous - mad storm clouds are gathering as per Curtis' predictions, but not mad / enough to mean / the End with certainty - and the 'extras' bit ends too cute as well, 'the end' both the screen and the director telegraph at the same time, going with the small case 'e' to keep us guessing, going with the small case 'e' to keep us guessing is all / we gots.

                Thanks for reading this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs an proven / ®ight .

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