Mockingjay - Part I

Yesterday Mockingjay - Part I premiered here and I went to the first session, of course!

The movie was pretty good, and I think with adaptations of books, there's always that thing of it never really being enough, because you know how the story goes and they will have forgotten something (and most of the times, lots of things) and you'll leave the theater thinking of how there should have been so much more in it. Then you also know that a movie that comes from a book isn't necessarily a translation of it into film, and that it needs to appeal to as many people as possible so it does well on the box office, and finally that it can't be ten hours long.

With all that in mind, going to see this movie, as it was with Catching Fire as well, for me, there wasn't so much of that going on in my head, because I read Suzanne Collins's book trilogy back in 2012, about a week before the first movie premiered (that's how I got The Hunger Games fever). So going to see that first movie, I had every scene still fresh in my mind, but not, two and half years and more than two hundred books later, I don't remember everything from the books, especially details.

This is a good thing, because it allowed me to live the story in the movie a lot more intensely, as opposed to knowing everything that would be going down before it happened. Obviously the story as a whole was in my head, but it allowed me to not care about those details the movie makers need to leave behind, like I would've otherwise.

Watching the movie, from a little before the middle onward, my heart was just beating like crazy. I cried, I got scared when a gun shot out of almost complete silence, and there were just so many cool things about the movie, that as a fan of the books and the story, I had to absolutely love it!

TV Show : The Fall

Ever since finding out last year that Jamie Dornan was going to be Christian Grey, I made it my mission to watch as many things with him as I could, so I could get a sense of him as an actor, and as a person (with interviews and such). I started with Once Upon a Time, though he had a very short lived character, and I really liked him on it (and actually completely fell in love with the show as well).

Then I went for The Fall. And let me tell you!

This is one of the best shows I've ever seen. I should point out that this isn't usually the type of show I watch. I like comedies, some mystery, and maybe a bit of action. This one has almost none of these, but the suspense is killer! So it's a psychological thriller, and I was hooked from the start. This is why I love falling for new actors and going on a search for their previous work, because usually I will find something I really love and never knew nothing about.

Anyway, in this case, the show premiered last year, in the summer, but I wasn't aware of it. I mean, it only had five episodes, which of course, isn't usual in the shows I watch from the US, but in the UK I know, there are plenty like this. It keeps the quality way up in the stratosphere (in the vast majority of cases), and it keeps people guessing, because there's obviously not a lot of time to fully develop things, which means you probably get a cliffhanger at the end of the season, and have to wait a LONG time for the next one (like with Sherlock, for example).

For anyone who doesn't know about the show, or doesn't know what the show is about, I'll explain to the best of my abilities.

It follows two main characters, one is Paul Spector, the serial killer, and the other is Stella Gibson, a super duper police officer (she has a specific position in the police I can't remember the name of) that comes from London to catch the son of a bitch. And that's about it.

The second season premiere of The Fall was last night, almost a year and half after the first season finale (you get my point). This is one of those cases in which I am glad I only found the tv show later, because then I didn't have to wait as long for the following season (though it was still about a year!)

But well, on to important tv-show-related things!

The premiere was soooo good!!

Paul Spector is probably one of the worst human beings I've ever seen represented in fiction. The thing with him is that he's full of contradictions! The first season basically showed us his life and how he navigates through it.

He is a family man, with a wife (who's a nurse) and two little kids. He's also a grief counselor. And finally he's a serial killer who likes to kill professional women in their 30s who are brunettes and live alone.

And those are the contradicitions. When he goes out to kill or scout his victims' houses, he pretends he goes to work for a phone line as a counselor. But as far as I've understood, that job has never even existed and is really just a cover. On one episode, he even leaves the house to go do his thing, and leaves his two kids alone sleeping, because his wife was working.

He also acts really weird, which of course, doesn't mean someone is a serial killer, but sometimes he even acts inappropriately at work and in other situations.

And in the end of the first season he goes to the police station to register himself, like when they ask people to come in, so they can eliminate them as suspects. They take his DNA and such. And I mean, how crazy is that?! I mean, he goes right to the place where all the people that want to catch him are. And he acts weird even then!

He really has no shame. But I think that's part of what makes him do the killing. He obviously feels power when he does it. He chokes the victims for almost an hour, just because he can basically. Because we see that he is strong enough to do it way quicker. He also takes his mask off he already has the women restrained, so he pretty much feeds off that as well. He wants them to see him, and see him get away with what he's doing. He wants them to see him be in control. And for me, that's related to the whole showing-his-face-where-he-shouldn't thing. He basically went to the police station to show that he was in charge (not that they knew, of course), and that they will catch him if he wants them to.

It's like he wants to get caught for all the murders, but only in the sense that I think he's proud of them, or himself for committing them. That pride is going to get him caught though, I honestly think so.

I have no idea where this season will end, but it's off to a great start at least, and I know the rest of it won't disappoint.