Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Just look at the
grey wolf – one day it is a part of the native ecosystem, the next – they are
villains in the script written by the Europeans and their North American
descendants, and right now, the wolves are still very much in the grey, pardon
the intended pun. What next?
…So, ‘The Lovebirds’. Now that they were released, we can
talk about them, and what can be said about this movie? …It is inane. Pause.
Now, here is the thing. ‘The Wrong Missy’ was just… wrong.
It is politically deaf, probably not very correct either, and outright grating,
even if you keep ‘me too’ issues out of the bracket. ‘The Lovebirds’ aren’t
anywhere as extreme – they’re a direct spoof of the various mystery/action
movies, just as the ‘Spies in Disguise’ 2019 film was a parody of the spies
movies, and ‘Onward’ (2020) – of various fantasy films. Pause.
…Yes, this is already a mixed bag, as ‘Onward’ seems to be a
rather more popular film than the ‘Spies’ were, but both of them are rather
forgettable – you watch them once or twice and move on. And ‘The Lovebirds’?
‘The Lovebirds’ are birds of a feather, even if they are
live-action rather CGI. Featuring an interracial couple, (real life says ‘how
cute!’), who were drifting apart but now they have to work together or they are
doomed, this movie aimed to entertain and amuse – nothing more. The titular
characters half-wander and half-blunder from one episode to the next, and you
are left exasperated – why are you rooting for them?
…To be certain, are not as bad as ‘The Wrong Missy’,
‘Doolittle-2020’, let alone ‘Cats-2019’. It just isn’t truly good either – at
best it is light-hearted comedy, at worst, it is inane, with more style than
substance, and that style isn’t very everyone, you know?..
On the other hand, given how real life sucks, how its’
narrative is so poorly written lately, maybe this sort of comedy is what we all
require right now; for those, who want something different, PBS is released
its’ own nature mini-series, based on its ‘Spy in the wild’ series, i.e. a
nature documentary, and does this bring us back to the natural world?
…On the other-other hand, NG will present ‘Barkskins’, a TV
series adaptation of the 2016 novel with the same title, of life in New France,
aka the French colony in what has now become Canada. I admit that I’m of mixed
feelings here – such adaptations tend to be a mixed bag depending on way too
many variables… but it is certainly something different from the aforementioned
‘Lovebirds’ and co., who aren’t bad, just forgettable. (Unlike, say, a
scolopendra centipede). Anything more?
I admit that I wanted to talk about turtles once again
today. As probably the oldest reptiles of the modern world, they are
fascinating creatures, and endangered ones, as humans have fed on them and
their eggs to near-extinction; actually, some species – the biggest ones – have
become extinct for real, and the smaller tortoises are also in trouble due to
the exotic pet trade.
…Yes, I know – we have discussed this – how the terms
‘turtle’, ‘tortoise’ and ‘terrapin’ are interchangeable… to a limit. When I was
young and went to an animal-lovers’ club for a couple of years, we had a lot of
terrestrial tortoises, and a single terrapin, (I do not know the species), in
an aquarium/terrarium combo. The two reptiles looked quite different – the terrapin’s
shell was much smoother, much more hydrodynamic, and it was not released from
its’ enclosure anywhere as often as its’ terrestrial cousins did. Ah, the nostalgia
of the past!..
…For the present, though, this is it. See you all soon!
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