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movie review - Tangled

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2016.06.30

This is an animated telling of the Rapunzel story with some updates. She's locked in a tower by a seeming conniving witch, only to have visions of floating lights visit her every birthday. She's lived a life of isolation but when a thief turns up her life is thrown upside down. Heading out with the thief, she sets of events that relate to her capture and imprisonment. The story is far less problematic than for instance "Frozen", and as a whole it's more conflict-driven and has a better tone than "Cars". It's a good story, the kids enjoyed it for "movie night".

Recommended.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton