My 9 days (10.09.-18.09.) in a nutshell.
It was like I didn't mind the fact that school had already started - I continued living that kind of lifestyle (unconditionalenjoyment of my life) shown in one of the movies I am gonna mention later (High Rise).
10.09.2016 Scavenger Hunt 2016 (Piešťany)
The Great Week started on 10th of September, when we had an event from Punkstream. This time it was Scavenger Hunt, which we decided to repeat after a great premiere one year ago. From my point of view I think we had better quests last year, but the overall atmosphere was better this year. We had two or three teams more than last year (I think 8 or 9 together). All of them had fun, so did we (and on the top of all that, we orgs had a great pizza from the neighbourhood). People gave us very positive feedback, so it is possible this event will become our annual thing. We don't have any rivals in this type of event so people likes going on it.
11.09. - 18.09.2016 Cinematik 2016 (Piešťany)
This great movie festival took place for the whole week. Me and my boyf had press cards for this festival, so we tried to get out the most of it. We genuinely went to see at least one movie every day and there were few days that can be considered to be days of a movie marathon. I am going to list you movies that we had seen and I will try to write a short review too.
14:00 Saulov Syn (Saul Fia; director: László Nemes): Movie about a prisioner of Auschwitz camp, founding his son in the gas chamber getting chocked. He kidnapps his dead son from the morguery and he want him to burry in a proper funeral. During his personal mission (to find a rabi), he lost a pack of gun-powder needed to be delivered to his friends in order to make the gas chambers explode. After a riot of sonderkommando he manages to escape, together with his dead son and new-found rabi. Soon he discovers that the “rabi” just said to him he is a rabi in order to survive. They all die in the end. Very strong movie for the beginning of the festival.
17:00 Nikdy nebudeš sám (Nunca vas a estar solo; director: Alex Anwandter): Very weird movie about a manequinne maker and his son, who is gay. He wants to start a singing carier, but for his orientation he is beaten and later he is laying in the hospital with very bad injuries of face. His father wants to help him out, so he steals his boss car after a tough row and sells it, giving money to a doctor for the face surgery. The father leaves in bus and end scene tells us that the son stays with his best (girl)friend. Not sure about the message of this movie.
14:00 Izba (Room; director: Lenny Abrahamson): I do not think I have to introduce this movie in the detail. This well-known story has been a great deal recently. All in all, I was feeling like in the boy”s skin when he was imagining that his whole world is just one room. When they got out, he was smart enough to comprehend the REAL world, the infinite world full of options and space, but LESS time, how he stated later in the movie. I think it was epic for the way it made us think about the world like about a giant space to make things, not just sit and wait, like the small boy in the room together with his mother.
17:00 Tu žije diabol (O Diabo More Aqui; director: Rodrigo Gasparini, Dante Vescio): Quite a classy horror movie. The main villain had a great mask, check it out:
Basically a group of young people stays in a house that is hounted the night they should not stay there. And everything get screws up. You have everything there: paranoia, killing, violence, a bit scary moments, sex´and quite interesting legend about the area the horror takes place in.
23:00 High-Rise (High-Rise; director: Ben Wheatley): The best movie of this festival for me; something you have to see. It had a very confusing story, like when I looked on the other people in the cinema, they genuinely did not know what was going on either. It was a great surprise for me that Tom Hiddleston played in it, making it more attractive and weird-side of silly than it should be. It shows how a house with all layers of society cannot stay functional, because there are too big differencies. And that the thing that connects everyone is a party and competition.
11:00 Victoria (Victoria; director: Sebastian Schipper): A movie my boyf had been talking about for ages. Basically is a one-shot movie in Berlin streets. They managed to get it all done on the third time, first two times were interupted by some unexpected events. The movie itself was interesting but it was even more fascinating if you keep thinking about how it was filmed. It was a story of a young spanich girl, who works in Berlin and one night she met up with these four guys from Berlin. At the dusk they had to go to rob a bank, they succeded, but then it went all wrong. I am not going to ruin it for you (even now I think I said too much), in case you want to watch it. I recommened it.
20:00 My, netvori (Wir Monster; director: Sebastian Ko): Serious movie which ends up to be very funny :DD The parents of the girl were doomed to get fucked up since the middle of the movie. It was very funny for the audience in the end, but NO ONE would laugh if the were on the places of her parents :DD Just watch it.
NO MOVIES :O (I am ashamed to write this) :/
9:00 Môj sused Totoro (Tonari no Totoro; director: Hayao Miyazaki): First Miyazaki movie I have seen. I thought it was going to be more deep, so it dissappointed me from this point of view. On the other hand, the illustration and story overall was great. So 7 stars out of 10.
9:00 Muno: strážca mesiaca (Mune, le gardien de la lune; director: Alexandre Heboyan, Benoit Philippon): French animated tale about a cute guardian of the moon called Mune. I loved the animation in it. They combined the 3D graphics (in their real world) with traditional 2D animation (in the dream world). The night world reminded me a lot about Avatar and the guardians animal was so amazing (not like the stone-creature of the day-guardian):
20:30 Ex Machina (Ex Machina; director: Alex Garland): Great sci-fi movie to finish this festival. In the comparison to 2,5 or almost 3 hours long Victoria was this one a very fast movie. I liked the question about the consciousness of the machines and the Turings Test. The ending was a bit shocking, because I thought it is not going to end that way.
If you are interested, you can view the whole program by clicking here.
16.09. - 18.09.2016 Comics SALÓN & IstroCON 2016 (Bratislava)
It has to look like me and my boyf have a time-machine in our pocket, but yeah, we managed to be visiting the movie festival and AT THE SAME time thic comic-con in Bratislava. Incredible... I feel like I have exprienced one month of time in one week. :D
Well, we went to Bratislava at 3pm on Friday (I was going there right after I came back from school), BUT we arrived on the con about 5.30pm because our train had a delay and we had this european summit in Bratislava so the MHD (town buses) were a mess etc... not on our way TO the con, but on our way BACK the bus suddenly didn't go, so we had to walk on the station, catch a train which went two hours later than we planned and then go straight home. Because of this accident we didn't manage to see a movie on Cinematik for that evening :/ Neverming, we went in the morning.
Anyway, next two days were the buses in twon free for everyone who has a driving-license ID card, so I had all my travelling completely free.
Overall, the con was a bit worse than the one in March. I was trying to go on this con for two years! I wasn't disappointed, but the people around me were for very good reasons so I began to be too.
First thing, cosplayers were fed up with the orgs' attitued to updating their website. They claimed that the cosplay contest will move the winner to the Eurocosplay Contest on MCM Comic Con in London, BUT that already happened on the comic-con (AnimeSHOW & GameEXPO) in March... so cosplayers thought they would have an another chance to get on the great Eurocosplay but in the end that was just a disinformation. I understand their anger and I am on their side, because things like this should not happen.
Second thing: Food. Please, there was nothing but two food shops for the whole comic-con. The shop with Ramen was incredibly full all the time, and the other shop was just fast-food. If I hadn't be on the last comic-con, I would be (possibly) satisfied with this, but last time they had much better meals than this.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the cosplay contest (Saturday Program), we saw some great cosplayers like Hong-chan, Wryxinka and Calipso (with the last one we had an interview few issues back :33). Calipso had unbeatable cosplay, Wryxinka got my heart for her wings and Hong-chan is an amazing role-player - her Harley Queen cosplay in wedding dress and metal-core song fit her play perfectly. No wonder she has so many followers and fans. There were about 14 contestants, few of them with great cosplays too, but unfortunately they all stayed in the shadow of these three.
Another thing I enjoyed was the dancing performances on Sunday. Basically, that part of the event was a highlight of that day and I would say everybody who came was about to see this amazing dancers and go awaya. There were some great groups I had seen for the first time on AnimeSHOW this year, and it was completely worth it.
Rasti needed to leave a bit earlier because his family was visiting his grandpa in the hospital. We meeted up again on the train station and went back home together.
These days were so amazing. I can't believe that all of this happened just last week.
