http://ambival.net/movies/lawn-dogs Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 May 2008 02:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/lawn-dogs#comment-10787 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Tideland Tue, 29 May 2007 18:57:25 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=178#comment-10787 [...] I get the feeling that this is always going to be one of those movies I feel like I dreamt. There were a number of details in this viewing that I have literally no recollection of seeing before, even though I was watching the exact same copy of the movie that I watched the first time. If anything, the movie is more disturbing than I grudgingly admitted in the first review; but bizarrely, at the same time, I find it even more beautiful than ever. There’s really not much more I want to say at this point, except, “Squirrel butts don’t glow!” I’d also add to the “little girl lost” themed movies I referred to in the first review as good companions for it, aside from the obvious Alice and Wonderland adaptations, this would also work brilliantly alongside Lawn Dogs ... I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me before. [...] [...] I get the feeling that this is always going to be one of those movies I feel like I dreamt. There were a number of details in this viewing that I have literally no recollection of seeing before, even though I was watching the exact same copy of the movie that I watched the first time. If anything, the movie is more disturbing than I grudgingly admitted in the first review; but bizarrely, at the same time, I find it even more beautiful than ever. There’s really not much more I want to say at this point, except, “Squirrel butts don’t glow!” I’d also add to the “little girl lost” themed movies I referred to in the first review as good companions for it, aside from the obvious Alice and Wonderland adaptations, this would also work brilliantly alongside Lawn Dogs … I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me before. [...]

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