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[deralte]

Today, I went out and bought a huge amount of chocolate to bring home to friends and family, along with some bargain dvds. Other than that, I've been rather busy cleaning the flat, cleaning my room and ordering it properly, and packing to go home for the summer. Everything looks very very neat. Pity I don't have the energy to keep things this nice year round.

ashfae came to visit yesterday and we watched FMA and Excel Saga and talked. It was lovely, though it's depressing to think how long it will be until we see each other again.

I am currently packing and watching A Room with a View. The pond bathing scene is one of the most homoerotic things I've ever seen *boggles*.

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[melf42.livejournal.com]

Ah, the pond bathing scene... Best scene in the movie. And the only scene I remember, really. Unfortunately, I watched that movie in my teens and, right as the pond bathing scene came on, my parents walked in. I had a lot of trouble convincing them that in the rest of the movie, everyone is wearing proper 1800s clothes. (This also happened when I was watching Ranma incidentally... my parents have a 'naughty bath scene' radar, I'm sure of it.)

[deralte.livejournal.com]

It's really the only part of the movie you should remember I suspect.

Have you ever seen Coupling? There's a scene where the main character complains about how his tv was always conspiring against him, so that even if he were watching a nature documentary, as soon as his father walked in the room, the tv would show someone having sex or wandering about naked.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Exceedingly depressing. Thnk goodness for internet! And hey, could be worse--if I weren't moving out here, that would've been the last time we ever saw each other! Ack!

FMV has eaten my brain. Damn you.

I adore A Room With a View, and that scene in particular. Though I'm also fond of the sentence "Distrust all occupations which require you to buy new clothes." Hehee.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I found the rest of the movie rather tedious, since I couldn't decide if the actors were actually supposed to be acting that stiff and wooden, or if they were just bad actors. It did have some witty dialogue though and scenery that left me nostalgic for Florence.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being insulting: stiff and wooden? Hello, they're English, remember? To be stiff and wooden is to be English! *gryn* Not entirely true, o'course; I've met many English types who are not stiff and wooden. But I've also met many who are, and the impression of that time period is that there were more. Hmmmm.

Anyway, from what I've seen of the actors in other places, it was intentional. It was E.M. Forester, after all; part of the point is that whatshername is opting for a not so stiff and wooden existance, in the end. (or, more accurately, an existance in which she doesn't turn into her excessively repressed cousin Charlotte)

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I thought so, but it was still a bit weird to watch, and it looked unnatural when they were trying to be natural anyway, so yeah...