Canadians surely can do more than that
Feb. 11th, 2012 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseudogeekPlease, are there Canadian movies that aren't 1) overloaded with sex 2) angsty story of poor vs rich or 3) surreal mind screw?
There more be more variation. It's not because a country's cinema is specialised in one way that there's nothing but that.
There more be more variation. It's not because a country's cinema is specialised in one way that there's nothing but that.
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Date: 2012-02-13 02:51 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure (or at least I hope) that there must be a non-angsty/non-sex-focused/non-surreal Canadian movie, but it's really hard to find one.
Sometimes I feel like if almost everything from Canada is copied from the US. Do we really have something of our own? Except maybe the poutine and green soap stone sculptures of polar bears. I mean, even the US has maple syrup. Heck, sometimes I wonder if the US actually have more maple trees than us. I mean, my family has to drive to the US to watch maple leaves in autumn, isn't that just an epic fail? And how our hockey players go to the US to get a job. We may live in Canada, but all the time we are looking at the US and everything we learn or heard is either from US or from us with American influences. We basically have the same culture. We do have a big difference in arts, but Canadian arts are just so painful for some reason. Most of the cinema and the literature are about pain. Are we permanently in winter depression or what? Our situation isn't that bad, so why can't we have more cheerful stuff? We do have awesome stuff. Like that huge dinosaur site in Alberta. Like the mountains in the BC. Like the soap stones. And Snow Festivals. Ice hotels. Parking spots for handicapped people at ice skating places and yes, legless Canadians can still skate (this isn't sarcasm, I saw a woman skating with artificial legs on TV and she was great). We have so much awesome, but why aren't this awesome showing in our cinema? How come with all this similitude with the US there's such giant gap in the mood of our cinema?
Canada through pessimist lens: everyone is poor and everything hurts.
Ok, Nothing (2003) wasn't that painful. It was a surreal black comedy, but at least the ending was surprisingly cheerful. Even though only things left in the world were two heads and a turtle. Still alive.
Other films though... Ugh.