Monologues & Content
Sep. 22nd, 2019 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunI came across this video last week of Jake Gyllenhaal as a guest on Live From Here, where he performs part of a monologue from the play he's currently in, Sea Wall/A Life.
Um...It's kind of amazing?
It's about ten minutes and I'll warn you in advance that it definitely ends abruptly -- not the video, his speech. I'll put content warnings below just in case. The monologue is so well written, and Jake performs it so seamlessly that it almost takes you a moment to realize he's not talking about himself, or not planning to introduce the piece. He just launches in. And the conversationality to the writing is *chef kiss* wonderful. Highly recommend.
Content warnings: birth, illness/death of a parent.
In the realm of watching things with uncomfortable content I also watched the new series on Netflix, Unbelievable. It is a hard watch, especially that first episode. If you're unfamiliar, the show is based on a true story of the capture of a serial rapist. And in tandem to his capture, is the story of the first person to report him, but who walked back her statement due to treatment by the police. It's done in such a way that is purposefully highlighting the mistreatment of these cases without at all focusing on the acts themselves. There is no slow pan of a woman's body, there's no lingering on graphic imagery. We get a few short spotty memories from the first person, but they're a second or two at the most.
The main focus is on the two female detectives that treated cases that happened later with more proper due process and who joined their two separate cases into one task force to bring the bad guy down. I'm a big fan of Toni Colette, so I was going to watch this eventually, but I started to see really good reviews from friends as they got past that first difficult episode. I can't say that like... I enjoyed it as a series, but I think it was a really good, dramatic piece of television. The subject matter was well-handled and all the actors involved were great to watch.
Currently, I'm watching another Netflix series, Another Life. It's a future sci-fi with Katee Sackoff as the captain aboard a vessel sent into space to make contact with an alien force that's landed some artifact on Earth. It's a bit of all the space tropes shoved into a small crew but I'm enjoying it so far. I'm not a huge Katee Sackoff fan, but I do really like Selma Blair. She plays this huge reporter on Earth who worms her way into the investigation of the artifact. Matt's watched a few episodes with me and the main plot is moving slowly enough that he's able to keep track of it's progress even if he's not around for an episode.
When I'm not watching this, I'm rewatching The Good Place with Matt who never saw it the first time around. I'm enjoying him experiencing all the twists, we're into season two now, and after almost every episode he's remarking on what a good show it is. Which yeah, dude, it is. lol
Um...It's kind of amazing?
It's about ten minutes and I'll warn you in advance that it definitely ends abruptly -- not the video, his speech. I'll put content warnings below just in case. The monologue is so well written, and Jake performs it so seamlessly that it almost takes you a moment to realize he's not talking about himself, or not planning to introduce the piece. He just launches in. And the conversationality to the writing is *chef kiss* wonderful. Highly recommend.
Content warnings: birth, illness/death of a parent.
In the realm of watching things with uncomfortable content I also watched the new series on Netflix, Unbelievable. It is a hard watch, especially that first episode. If you're unfamiliar, the show is based on a true story of the capture of a serial rapist. And in tandem to his capture, is the story of the first person to report him, but who walked back her statement due to treatment by the police. It's done in such a way that is purposefully highlighting the mistreatment of these cases without at all focusing on the acts themselves. There is no slow pan of a woman's body, there's no lingering on graphic imagery. We get a few short spotty memories from the first person, but they're a second or two at the most.
The main focus is on the two female detectives that treated cases that happened later with more proper due process and who joined their two separate cases into one task force to bring the bad guy down. I'm a big fan of Toni Colette, so I was going to watch this eventually, but I started to see really good reviews from friends as they got past that first difficult episode. I can't say that like... I enjoyed it as a series, but I think it was a really good, dramatic piece of television. The subject matter was well-handled and all the actors involved were great to watch.
Currently, I'm watching another Netflix series, Another Life. It's a future sci-fi with Katee Sackoff as the captain aboard a vessel sent into space to make contact with an alien force that's landed some artifact on Earth. It's a bit of all the space tropes shoved into a small crew but I'm enjoying it so far. I'm not a huge Katee Sackoff fan, but I do really like Selma Blair. She plays this huge reporter on Earth who worms her way into the investigation of the artifact. Matt's watched a few episodes with me and the main plot is moving slowly enough that he's able to keep track of it's progress even if he's not around for an episode.
When I'm not watching this, I'm rewatching The Good Place with Matt who never saw it the first time around. I'm enjoying him experiencing all the twists, we're into season two now, and after almost every episode he's remarking on what a good show it is. Which yeah, dude, it is. lol
