Red Riding Hood and foreigners

This weekend I ended up watching Red Riding Hood  because I actually heard somewhere it wasn't worth watching. Odd psychology there. Anyway the story itself was well written but the tone of it was wrong. It's supposed to be set in medieval times, but when the two main characters were together. I sudden felt there should be a Chevy next to the boy (and he should be wearing a cowboy hat). The girl might as well have been in short shorts. The other actors were well intothe story for the most part.

Other bits of the directing were marvelous, like how it did one of those things where everyone is a suspect. The only difference is your thinking they could be a suspect because the character thinks that of them.And thats her brilliance she's sucking you in her place and your mind is working as hers.

I have previously raved about sex in movies for wasting too much time that could be directed towards plot building. That didn't happen here. While there were almost scenes they served a purpose. And an actual sex bit was at the end of the movie. Which sadly this has a rant attached to it too.

While the main characters already felt like the odd ones out the sex didn't matter to me. It's the setting the sex was in. I once wrote a comment and it went like this:

"I really wish in the medieval era of movies they stopped having the women have sex and getting knocked up. It's completely wrong with the time frame."

And was responded like this:

"That doesn't matter. Back then not everyone waited to have sex after marriage."

No I'm not saying everyone was a nun back then, but the influences of the bible and certain practices back in the day kept women in line. For example, when a girl lost her virginity and set her bedding out to wash, the people of the town checked to see if there was blood and if there wasn't, she was obviously a whore. (In their minds) A lot of women took to cutting themselves and smearing the blood over the sheets.

Another thing is the abortions back then. Most people (with a high number of prostitutes) would get pregnant from sex. No birth control back then and no, pulling out quick enough doesn't work. So we have back alley abortionists to turn to. And honestly with medical knowledge back then a large majority of women must have died.

That rant was created by the movie adaption of the Count of Monte Cristo. I think that the little things they changed to have a picture perfect ending took away from the book. Let's get back on track.

Anyway let's go with a fun fact: Americans can't tell foreigners apart and foreigners can't tell us apart.

I bring this up because another movie watched was La Casa Muda or The Silent House. It was a great movie. Trying to figure it out, I kept bouncing between the house is haunted and someones broken in! And even with all this glaring hints and metaphoric stuff my class learned was involved with movies, I still missed it. So my fun fact ties in relationship to a point in the movie when there was a wall of photographs. My mother said they were of her and I told her no. An arguement ensued, but not all of them were the main girls photo. And I'm not sure how many are . . .  It was a good movie.

There isn't much dialogue so you can't expect to understand every little thing she does. What dialogue is there explains enough.  This movie is the one that is a continuous stream of reel. They don't stop to take scenes. Whatever terror the girl has isn't relieved only to come back. And she's trapped in the house. If she wasn't, the story would be infinitely less exciting.

I'm done for now: Creature of today? Norse goddess of grain Sif.  She had beautiful hair and Loki chopped it off. I don't care what happened after. I would have killed him.