Flux
If you're hip you don't say "I saw Aeon Flux last night!" Instead you say, "I saw Flux last night!" That's if you're hip. If you hear someone call it by it's full name, that's how you know they're not one of the innovators, the trend-setters, or the image makers. That's how you know.
So I saw Aeon Flux last night and it sucked. Well, it didn't suck, it was actually more watchable than I had expected. That is partly because we were treated to some form of pre-show entertainment from the theater manager just before the movie started. He was telling the crowd about their new idea (!) of having Monday night football screenings, and their plans for selling alcohol to patrons. Sounds to me like they're trying to tap into the success of the Alamo Drafthouse. They've been doing weekend football sceenings for a couple of years now. And of course they sell alcohol. Anyway, part of this pre-show announcement was an effort on the manager's part to sort of undersell the movie we were about to see. I think he really was trying to lower our expectations about Aeon Flux (some people just call it Flux) in the hopes that we would enjoy ourselves. I have to say it didn't work completely, but I didn't hate the movie or anything.
One thing about the movie that was cool was that they shot it in Berlin in some very futuristic looking locations. Berlin has some amazing architecture and a lot of it is very modern. That's one of the things I really loved about Berlin when I was there in 2002. There was a great mix of old-world buildings and uber modern devo-construction modernism (look it up). It is a place where the old and the new collide, which is entirely to be expected when you consider the events in history which have taken place there (i.e. National Socialism, the fall of the iron curtain, the filming of Aeon Flux, etc).
Which brings me to The Cassidy Kids. We're about to lock picture for the second time, about to start scoring the music, about to shoot some pickup shots which will make the film flow even better. I'll try my best to update this blog more often. Expect a series of articles on the unrequited lesbian aesthetic apparent in Flux.
