also: amusingly timed power outages

The Descent, with several British women, hongry cave monsters, and exactly one male cast member who was amusingly (and accurately) predicted by Kevin to die in a quite particular way. I think it was a great movie, with characters with some actual depth, in themselves and in their relationships, and all of that tied together with generally understated implications and expressions. The monsters themselves weren't so much scary as the environment, I'll note, but perhaps in a sense the monsters are just an extension of the environment - impersonally blind, practically non-sentient in general, but implacable all the same. Also, as much as one might be tempted to set up a female-vs-male dichotomy in terms of the human women and almost entirely male monsters, I think a more interesting tact might be that the women's subconscious issues with themselves and their relationships with each other, which are normally buried under societal niceties, are brought to the surface when the women themselves are buried. How's that for some punny imagery within syntax. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that it's like they're delving into their own subconsciouses, in a sense. Oh! Oh! And this is a spoiler, but did anyone else notice that it was the (former) mother who kills the child-monster, and then the mother thereof? It's like she finally confronted herself as the survivor of the intitial car accident, perhaps in viewing herself as the monster in being the only survivor, and then all that's left is to kill the woman who her husband was cheating on her with! Bam! How trippy is that? Anyway, I could go on, obviously.

Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln seems like he was an odd and interesting man