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akwardlyuncool · 3 years

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Lore (2012) - Review

Lore is a 14 year old girl who is left to take care of her younger sister and 3 younger brothers, one of which is still a breast feeding baby, after their parents had to leave them behind for reasons connected to the end of the WW2 and their father’s involvement, as he was a N*zi soldier. They are set to travel to meet Omi, whom I assume is their grandmother, but the trip isn’t as easy her mother described before she left, especially once they come in contact with a Jewish Refugee named Thomas who becomes their new traveling companion, to put it simply.

There’s a lot of calling people by their first names so I was often confused as to who was actually who in relation to one another throughout the entire film.

I should know by now that movies set around WW2 give me hella anxiety, but for whatever reason I still somehow manage to find one that piques my interest, even if it’s only slightly. I picked this one up from the library I want to say last month, but let it sit forever cause I always pick these types of movies on a whim and then have to wait to watch them until I’m emotionally ready or at least in a neutral enough mood to be able to handle them. Long story short it did in fact give me anxiety and I’m glad my computer needed to be charged so I could force myself to take a break before finishing it.

Has this story been told before? Many times. But I think this is the first one of it’s kind that takes place in the wake of it all, that I’ve personally seen. Most often they’re being told at the height of the war or sometime before it’s over and I thought that specific “twist” was a decent way to set this film apart. Now I don’t know all of the historical context, however some of the things that took place felt like they existed for shock value, unless American soldiers did in fact make people look at dead bodies for food, in which case I am actually speechless. There was a lot of things that took place like that, where I wondered if there was liberties taken in those areas or if that was actually how things went. Although it was intense, a little bloody, a bit uncomfortable and had moments where I had to turn my head, it wasn’t as visually traumatizing as I thought it might be. Overall it has a dark simplicity that didn’t make the movie feel slow at all, like others in the category, but rather nicely paced. I was frustrated with the ending, but also kinda got it, but also needed more. I’m just so back and forth on my feelings with this one.

Side Note: I wouldn’t be surprised if many of those scenarios were based in reality. (You can tell I’m not well versed in the historical part of historical fiction.)

Honestly I don’t have an overall rating for this movie and I think that comes down to me not quite knowing if I support the characters in their story/journey or if I just thought it was a well put together movie?

If you’ve seen the movie and want to discuss Thomas, my DM’s are open cause I got thoughts!

#Movie Blurbs #Movie Reviews #Lore #Saskia Rosendahl #Ursina Lardi #Hans-Jochen Wagner #Kai Malina #Nele Trebs #André Frid #Mika Seidel #Cate Shortland #Movies

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bdigfreakingwooper · 2 years

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9. What are your character's relationships like with every member of their party? Bonus, if you want to write a short blurb on your character's opinion of them.

Aaron's lowkey still feeling guilty about abandoning Malina and letting her memories get wiped (he still doesn't know how that happened, actually?) She's a very caring girl, and he's happy she and Kai can be happy together.

Speaking of Kai, Aaron's proud to see they've kept their more violent urges in check. To be fair, there haven't exactly been too many instances for that to happen, and the party is also currently transporting illicit substances to a foreign head of state. It's for a good cause, I swear.

As for Hope, Aaron's a little concerned, but she seems less strung up after talking with Malina. That's good; it's good for everyone to be able to rely on everyone else. As opposed to him trying to shoulder all the responsibility. He's getting better about that.

Singe is repressed as hell and has decided that this means Robin's satisfaction shall come before anything else. Robin has so much passion for their work, Singe can't help but be attracted. The changeling shall be hers! And noone else's! ...Yeah, uh, we'll see how that turns out, Singe.

Singe isn't entirely sure what to make of Moth, but Moth hits things with a big weapon. Singe approves of that. She thinks Moth's habit of dissecting things is a little odd, but nothing to be concerned about.

Singe is kinda pissed that Flare's been able to keep up with her, because that means she's gotta respect him. Being an obvious rival for Robin's affection means that she has to dunk on him at every opportunity. Or maybe seduce his mom. Either way, he'll know his place sooner or later.

... Singe is a pretty big hypocrite, considering her subclass's core tenets are communism. She's entirely unapologetic about it.

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irrationallyoptimistic-blog1 · 6 years

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this month: 6 books

all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr

the glass castle by jeannette walls

a wrinkle in time quintet by madeleine l’engle

wicked like a wildfire by lana popović

a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab

zero repeat forever by g.s. prendergast

see below the readmore for brief descriptions and my thoughts on each book !

purchased:

yes, i know it’s almost christmas. yes, i know i asked for pretty much just books for christmas. but i still bought some ! these are books that weren’t on my list, but called to me while i was looking around. i ordered them a day or two before i left for maryland and by the time i got home, there they were ! in addition to the ones below, i also ordered the other mrs. walker by mary paulson-ellis. it’s supposed to come in january, so i’ll talk about that one then. everything in this category i ordered from amazon, the og online bookstore.

all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr:

so i’ve been hearing about this one for a while -- mostly from booktube. at first i remember thinking that maybe this wasn’t the book for me, but goddamn does that title sound good. it ended up being on sale on amazon, so i picked it up and decided to give it a try. reading the blurb now, i’m actually super into it? if i had just seen it on the shelf at a bookstore and read the back, i totally would have gotten it.

it’s set in world war ii era france, and centers on two kids on opposite sides of the conflict (if kids can even be on sides) who come together in “the walled citadel of saint-malo” (i LOVE walled citadels btw, always a sucker for those) and learn how to live in a world tainted by such an immediate tragedy.

this is definitely on the to-read list, but it’s not as high as the other (million) books on there. it’s one of those books where i’m going to have to wait for the right mood to strike to read this one.

the glass castle by jeannette walls:

another one i’ve heard a lot about. i think the first place i heard about this memoir was from a teacher in middle school who had just read it, and even then i was captivated by the premise. i never had a chance to pick it up until now when goodreads suggested it to me while i was doing some late-night book-shopping and i decided it was finally time.

jeannette walls writes about her family -- her parents’ inability to provide or nurture, and later their inexplicable refusal to accept help from their now-adult children.

honestly, this blurb alone really resonated with me. my dad moved around a LOT when he was a kid because his mom couldn’t hold down a job or make payments on the houses, and walls’s early childhood seems really similar. also, a major point in the blurb is the close-knitness of jeannette and her siblings. i have three sisters and after a #unfortunateseriesofevents (the hashtag is not silent) in our childhoods we’re all super close and would do absolutely anything for each other.

all in all, i’m super excited to read this memoir. it seems fascinating, and i’ve heard the writing is incredible. i am expecting to cry during this one. (UPDATE: read it. loved it. will post a review later.)

a wrinkle in time quintet by madeleine l’engle:

oh, madeleine l’engle. i read i think the first three books when i was a kid and never managed to make it to the last two. i reread the first one mayyybe a year ago? but never tried to go on to the other ones. i absolutely loved meg and identified really heavily with her, and this was one of those books that really defined my personality as a kid.

now, i’ve had some good and some bad experiences rereading books i loved as a kid, especially series. the phantom tollbooth held up, while the chronicles of narnia did not. turns out the whole thing is just the bible but with lion jesus. but i think this one’ll go over well. if i do read it soon, it’ll probably be all in a row during this break. it’s the kind of thing you’ve got to read all at once.

gifts:

every year i ask for books. every year my mom’s like “no, are you sure? don’t you want something other than books?” every year i’m like, no. just books. this year i went a step forward and provided her with my list of books i’ve been meaning to pick up. she delivered. thanks mom. just a note: the way i put books on that list is i see them (often on booktube !) and think to myself, huh, that looks neato. it’s not a hard list to get onto, so sometimes i don’t actually know anything about the book. it’s a fun guessing game.

wicked like a wildfire by lana popović:

first: love her name. like, as a whole. it’s a lovely name. second: love the cover. it’s a lovely cover. that’s probably how it got onto the list.

iris and malina live with their mother in a small village in montenegro. just like the rest of the women in their family, they have what they call gleams: iris perceives fractals in flowers and renders the designs in glass. malina hears the moods of people around her as though they were music. their mother jasmina has forbidden them to reveal their gleams. iris and malina of course decide that life is not for them. and then their mother is attacked and the girls unleash a curse on themselves. it happens.

reading the blurb, it definitely appeals to me. i’m really really hoping it focuses on iris and malina’s relationships with each other and their family, because no love interest is really mentioned in the blurb? and like, i know that there’ll probably be some kind of romantic subplot. but i’m hoping it’s minor, because everything else sounds far more interesting. also curious where the title comes from? the second book also has a fiery name, so. fire probably plays some kind of role in the series. probably.

a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab:

my best friend loves ve schwab. for almost a year she’s been recommending her books to me. i finally caved. well. i already had it on the list, my mom buying it for me just propelled it up my tbr.

kell travels between londons. grey london (mundane, ruled by a crazy king), red london (where magic is life and life is magic), and white london (slowly being destroyed by a magical war). he also smuggles things to and from these londons. where he doesn’t go, where no one goes, is black london. so when he ends up with an artifact from black london, it’s not exactly a great find. running into delilah bard, who robs him, then saves him, then makes him smuggle her between londons, doesn’t exactly improve the situation.

this sounds great actually ! i trust my friend’s taste, it just usually takes me forever to get to her recs. by this point i should really know that she’s got my number when it comes to fantasy books. smuggling? yes. what sounds like a very well-developed political and sociological system? yes. i’ll probably get to this one sooner rather than later.

zero repeat forever by g.s. prendergast:

uhh to be honest i did not remember putting this one on my list. neither the cover nor the blurb ring a bell. probably made it on there during a late night booktube viewing when i was avoiding studying for finals.

raven and her fellow campers can’t do anything. they’re trapped at a summer camp of all places when the nahx invade. raven is not exactly satisfied, but more forced, to remain helpless and without recourse. until her boyfriend is killed. on the opposite side, eighth has only one mission: to protect his partner. and then she’s killed. eighth and raven are on opposing sides of a battle that neither wants to be in. so why are they so strongly attracted to each other?

gonna be honest here folks. this book sounds very heterosexual. like, aggressively straight. like, i would not have picked it up at a bookstore after reading the inside cover. maybe it’s the men with numbers for names, but the tone almost reads like divergent to me? i’m not sure. just the vibe it gives off. i’m holding out hope that even if it is mostly focused on the romance, it’s well-developed, and the setting and plot are worth it.

#bookblr #book #book haul #reading #ve schwab #a darker shade of magic #all the light we cannot see #anthony doerr #zero repeat forever #gs prendergast #a wrinkle in time #madeleine l'engle #wicked like a wildfire #lana popovic #the glass castle #jeannette walls

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