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I tell you what, I am really, really loving PJ Harvey's latest, White Chalk. It's just ethereal and gorgeous and surprisingly catchy. I can't believe this is the same woman who released Rid of Me! ETA: Yes I can actually, there is a thread of the same desperation and menace in songs like The Devil and The Piano. But I just love the whole Victorian performance aspect of it, and the way it seems antiquated and avante garde and melodic and feminine and yearning.

Also, I saw Children of Men, finally, last night, and bawled my eyes out, even though Clive Owen's wooden acting. It's excellent, nice and tense with a few good surprises and dystopian to the max. It also boasts a completely unrecognisable, bedreadlocked Charlie Hunnam.

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What's with Charlie Hunnam and his turns as semi-recognizable henchmen? I saw Cold Mountain recently and was appropriately disturbed by him as an albino. In both movies, I was very glad when what happened to him happened.

The part where the kitten was climbing up Clive Owen broke my heart with its cuteness. I think Owen's woodenness worked in this movie because his character was supposed to be numb, but usually Owen's just kind of blank and adenoidal.

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The bit that really got me was the bit that was meant to, when the baby was crying and everyone stopped to let it pass. I was a MESS.

And the thing is, I quite like Owen's movies! I really loved Inside Man but I think his approach worked for that as well.

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Oh my god, also, the bit with Chiwitel Ejiofor just before he died. "I had a sister.."

YOU BASTARD! I fricking love him but he killed me with that.

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i haven't read the novel it's based on, but i still quite liked children of men. i especially liked the camera work, e.g. inside the car and how they used long continuous footage from one camera, it gave it a very "real" kind of feeling. like a documentary. but i also thought that we didn't really bond with the characters or get to know them beyond a superficial level, despite the gravity of the situation they were in.

i've only heard one track from the new PJ Harvey album, 'when under ether' i liked it.

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i haven't read the novel it's based on, but i still quite liked children of men. i especially liked the camera work, e.g. inside the car and how they used long continuous footage from one camera, it gave it a very "real" kind of feeling. like a documentary. but i also thought that we didn't really bond with the characters or get to know them beyond a superficial level, despite the gravity of the situation they were in.

i've only heard one track from the new PJ Harvey album, 'when under ether' i liked it.

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That's a really excellent analysis, actually, I totally agree with it. Despite the whole theme of the importance of individual action, it didn't really let us get to know the key individuals. Did you notice Radiohead playing at Michael Caine's place?

"When Under Ether" is a really good track, one of the more peaceful on the album. I think "The Piano" is getting some radio play too.