places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel

I actually thought I would have written at least one story by now. The good news is that I've two drafts started -- the bad news is that one of them is probably unworkable, and the other needs like 20k in words to be anything approaching mediocre.

Let's just say I've to write.

(This brought by reading the latest anouncement in yuletide_nudge, to which I subscribed idk when in a fit of wisdom.)

Org work continues to be good. I've had some big disagreement on how other people are doing things (if you were one of those people, don't worry, you heard about it and argued back :P), but all in all it feels like it's working, better and better every day. (Mostly because we can have those disagreements without it being enemies forever or just an end-of-the-world issue.) Externally everything has been quiet *touches wood*, which means that we're working under much less pressure and stress.

I have watched a bunch of things, mostly argentinian.


XXY in english wikipedia.



The trailer is actually worse than the movie re:gender politics. They're the best thing about the movie (disclaimer: I'm not intersex): I actually think the movie does a really good job.

The acting was so-so (except Darín, but well, he always manages), but watching without knowing Spanish may help with that. Photography was good, I think, and the dialogue was, too, mostly.

The only thing I would warn about is some sexualized violence.

It was a very enjoyable movie. I now want to watch El Niño Pez from the same director.



Mía in IMDb



(Sorry, couldn't locate a trailer with Eng subs)

The acting can be painful, though luckily not the protagonist's (or most of the main secondary characters). It's actually quite a feel good movie, despite the subject and most of what happens, and it has a realistic ending that doesn't take your heart out and leaves it outside to shrivel up and die, so that's a win.

Aesthetically was pretty pleasing, and the writing was mostly OK (I would say good except that some scenes are kinda painfully bad).

I really liked it.




Las Viudas de Los Jueves in IMDb



(Again no trailer with subs, weird.)

This is excellent. Actually better than the book, as far as I remember. More settled into the particular historical movement, though the political pretensions of a movie about the private lives of the people who live in a gated community can be a bit laughable, and generally wins by the fact it's not caged by the very closed POV of the novel.

Acting excellent, writing excellent. I loved the photography.






This is a miniseries that views more like a telenovela in style. If you like those, you probably will like this one. I mostly keep watching because I want to know what happens, and it promises to have a neat ending, since miniseries, and because of the plot. It's this: a trans* woman is very happy as the (non legally married) wife of a pretty rich guy. He dies in a car accident, and his hyper conservative (and hyper evil) family then attempts to cut her off.

The acting is really off most of the time except with the protagonist and very few others. The writing is terrible, at every level. The filming is mediocre to bad (think telenovela).

It's still proving to be fun, and they made an effort to make it very much part of our history (everything starts before the Equal Marriage Law is passed).

If you're OK with watching in Spanish, it's all legally online here.



Eva & Lola at IMDb



This movie is so bad. So bad. If you want to learn about the issue of sequestered kids during the argentinian dictatorships, then it can be quite educational. Except you've to endure a Manic Pixie Girl stereotype with barely any meat to the characterization, the fact that the second protagonist never gets a true personality, that the most important action in the entire film hinges on someone misspeaking after his character gets built differently, a romantic relationship that just takes up space while the most important relationship in the story (the friendship between the two principal characters) gets nothing before the conflict enters the scene, and innumerable other missteps.

It's just badly structured, mostly crappily filmed, and not really well acted. The writing is so-so (has its moments, like the acting).

It's not even fun. The two actresses are really cute, though.




Juan y Eva at IMDb



This movie is pretty much all propaganda. It was still good! (I probably don't mind peronist propaganda much, though :P)

The photography was mostly pretty nice with some very few very weird and ugly shots. The writing was good. The acting was really good. It was entertaining throughout, which historical movies about great loves often aren't to me -- it's probably because it's as much about politics as about them as a couple.


I also am still watching The Walking Dead -- they're doing mostly OK gender wise (certainly better than the comic, from what I read on wikipedia), despite fridging whom they fridged.

I've started watching Elementary, and it's pretty entertaining. Nothing earth shattering from any perspective, but does its job satisfactorily.

I actually planned to write about something else than what I've watched, but now can't remember what. Uhm.