The country yesterday took its biggest step yet towards emerging blinking into the daylight of normality (I was toying with 'normalcy' there but decided that it is too transatlantic) - this giant leap for British mankind was the reopening of the pubs. The police were on full alert apparently. The Roberts family (we have Daughter Number 1 here with us this week) opted for a night in but we did greatly enjoy fish and chips ordered online (click and collect) and collected from the estimable Mere Green Chippy.
Last week we had re-watched
Inception - the third time of asking for me. Visually stunning and with a thunderous score this is a tour-de-force from director Christopher Nolan. Due deference to DN1 is needed here and I must point out that Nolan read English at her alma mater University College London. We will generously forgive them both this defect. This is a film which is a feast for the eyes but one does also have to concentrate because the plot is labyrinthine - there is much play with levels of consciousness, dreams within dreams within dreams and onwards down as in a hall of mirrors. On third viewing I think it made more sense to me. Highly recommended. 81/100.
I mention our choice of viewing because yesterday evening (after the chips) we fired up the neglected big screen upstairs (when we bought it it was expensive state of the art, now it is unexceptional) and watched a very different movie,
Greenbook. The fact that this won Best Picture at the Oscars might usually disconcert me but, no, this is a bloody good film. Its two stars, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, are on brilliant form and, yes alright, it does sometimes tip into the sentimental but its message of racial tolerance and friendship is uplifting. Catch it if you can. 88/100.
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