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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Moments of Revelation

There's a certain kind of horrifying moment that I love/dread in movies and TV shows, and was reminded of this seeing a great one in the Swedish movie of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. (Don't worry -- it's not pictured here -- and I won't give the plot away.)

It comes during a calm, silent close-up of journalist Mikael Blomkvist as he realizes everything he thought he'd figured out was wrong. It's subtle, sublime work by the actor (confusingly named Michael Nyqvist) and it reminded me of some of my favorite other moments of realization, when a character catches up with the audience (or they realize something simultaneously.)

A Tribute to Tributes

LA's "Thai Elvis" - Kavee “Kevin” Thongpricha I used to scorn tribute bands as being, well, less-than.  But in the past severa...