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A few months ago, I had a wonderful experience. It was a chair. It was THE PERFECT chair. It was during a tag-along IKEA shopping spree when I sat down on the Poäng lazy chair. The height was perfect, aligning my head at the exact correct TV watching viewing angel. The tactile feedback was perfect, just a touch of a subtle bounce-back. And the head support was perfect. Beating any couch, since a normal couch doesn’t even support the head, annulling all lazy activity by default. I could never sleep on the couch (with or without watching TV while I’m at it), but I could already imagine this possibility.
But since I didn’t have a car, I forgot all about it. Till today, that is, I had another unannounced tag-along, and it was deja-vu all over. And here it is:

And here it is exactly 12 minutes and 42 second later (names of IRC witnesses only at request):

I doesn’t fit my interior design (what actually does ?), and I have to puzzle around how to fit it, but trust me when I say, Poäng and me are going to have some excellent lazy time together.
Since I’m so highly recommending it, I’m sure you will try it out yourself, and eventually buy it. Don’t forget to time your own construction time (from closed box to the finished product as pictured here), and let me know if you can beat me.

Brrr. For some people, seeing a unique movie is the highlight of the day. For others, it’s winning the night’s “gooseboard” game (I think that’s the correct translation. No, I’m actually pretty sure). What a genius who invented the rules. I was stuck in prison from the start, and had to eat from my nose for the rest of the thirty minutes.

More like, Well-done for the Wachowski Brothers. This being their first project after The Matrix trilogy, they even took a break from behind the cameras. Does that matter ? Most probably not. They wrote a thightly packed screenplay, and from there, nothing seems to be able to go wrong.
It’s safe to say there’s no real need for a unique filming style or extremely innovative special effects (even though it’s there if the script calls for it), because the screenplay is like a sturdy foundation. The multi-layered textures (both on personal and social levels) work its way through fleshy dialogue, sucking you in from the very beginning. By creating a gritty world mostly with the use of words, they’ve successfully created a saga without resorting to a sky-rocketing budget invasive methods.
And last but no least, the acting is superb. Extra kudos for Hugo Weaving for giving another complex character form in the way he only can, with just his voice and timing.
So, maybe the comic book was already good from the beginning. Maybe I’m not paying attention to the director or the music composer. But what I’m definitely sure of is that I can’t wait for the next project from Wachowski Brothers.8½.