The Five Senses Blogathon
Hello everyone! Long time no see, huh? Well, I’m back with my entry in Nostra’s wonderful “Five Senses” blogathon.
MyFilmviews is hosting it, in association with Dutch moviepodcasters MovieInsiders (who inspired the blogathon). Kudos to Karamel Kinema (see what I did there?), for the designing the pretty cool logo.
The idea, as explained by Nostra himself, is this:
As you know, the body has five senses (although some movies might suggest there is a sixth one): Sight, Sound, Taste, Smell and Touch.
For each of these senses you will have to describe the movie related association you have with it. This can be a particular movie or even a scene, but also something having to do with the movie going experience (so for example the smell of popcorn in the theater).
Pretty cool, right? You can go here if you’d like to participate. But first, here are my picks!
Sight
The Tree of Life
Cinema, in its essence, is a purely audiovisual art, and I think few movies have placed greater emphasis on the second half of that word than Terrence Malick’s 2011 comeback film The Tree of Life. The impressive visual effects and absolutely stunning cinematography by double Oscar-winner Emmanuel Lubezki (who didn’t win for this, which still offends me) make this meditative masterpiece a wonder to behold.
Sound
Atonement
Typewriter and piano keys form a beautiful, dramatic marriage in Dario Marianelli’s incredible, Oscar-winning score.
Taste
Waitress
OK, watch the montage above and tell me you don’t want to bite into every single pie featured. Waitress is a little-seen gem with lots of charm and some damn fine food porn.
Smell
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
I’m carrying on with my pick, even though Nostra called it predictable, haha. This one popped into my head for “Smell” as soon as I started reading about this blogathon. John Hurt narrates:
In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city in Europe. And nowhere in Paris was that stench more profoundly repugnant than in the city’s fish market. It was here then, on the most putrid spot in the whole kingdom, that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born on the 17th of July, 1738. It was his mother’s fifth birth. She delivered them all here under her fish stand, and all had been stillbirths or semi-stillbirths. And by evening the whole mess had been shoveled away with the fish guts into the river. It would be much the same today, but then… Jean-Baptiste chose differently.
Those words, paired with the rotten food and absolutely filthy people we see on screen…well, you could almost smell the disgusting blend that Jean-Baptiste smelled as soon as he could breathe. No wonder he went nuts.
Touch
Pleasantville
Joan Allen’s ideal 50’s housewife, as her whole town of Pleasantville, is the black-and-white image of conformity, servilism and anhedonia. Enter Reese Witherspoon’s freewheeling Jennifer, who urges her “mom” to give in to a sensual touch -her own-, sparking an inner revolution.
Excellent choices!
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Thanks, Abbi! 🙂
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Great idea, great list you’ve got there! Nice call on Perfume.
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Thanks a lot, Cindy! Like I said, that’s the first one I thought of. “Touch” was the hardest to come up with.
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Nice to see you joining the blogathon and I know someone was going to pick Perfume (despite my entry 😉 ). Interesting pick for touch. Pleasantville is something I’ve not seen, but which I’ve been hearing good things about. I can agree with you on the visuals of Tree of Life.
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Thanks, Nostra! I just had to include that scene in Perfume. Glad to see you like Tree of Life as well. Oh, and I would thoroughly recommend Pleasantville. Fantastic movie in my Top 10.
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Welcome back! Great post 🙂
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Many thanks! 🙂
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Such an ispiring post! Well done! https://cinemaliquido.wordpress.com/
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Thanks a lot, Myriam! Let me know if you do your own entry 😉
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Got it! Here my entry 😉 https://cinemaliquido.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/suggestion-the-five-senses-blogathon-find-out-all-my-choices/
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Thanks! Will check it out in a bit
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Excellent post Fernando.
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Thank you kindly, my friend 🙂
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Don’t mention it Fernando, sorry I’ve been a bit absent from your blog lately. Will definitely be back more frequently.
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No worries. I’ve also been absent from my own blog, which is much, much worse! haha
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Glad to see you back, and you’re always welcome on my blog.
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You should check out some of my new features when you get the chance.
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I will! 🙂
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The Ladies posts have been really popular.
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That’s cool that you participated in this blogathon! Awesome picks all around, esp love your pick for Sight and Sound, all of Malick’s films are so stunning and the typewriter sound in Atonement is definitely memorable and is key to the story.
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Thanks, Ruth! 🙂
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Awesome picks mate and a great little blogathon as well, great idea!
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Thank you, man! Appreciate it 🙂
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HiFernando, just wanted to know if there’s anyone you’d like me to feature for you on my Ladies posts? If you think of any, just drop me a comment on my latest post.
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Well, I’d much rather you feature a gentleman for me, haha!
But, my lady of choice would be Drew Barrymore.
Hading to your new post in a bit!
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I do feature gentleman on the posts as well so I’ll oblige anyone you choose.
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Scott Eastwood, if you’d be so kind! hehe 🙂
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That can be arranged, but do head over to the posts, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.
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Just checked out your latest. I don’t know why I didn’t get an email for it. Going to check if there’s something wrong with my subscriptions.
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If you want to see any other posts of a similar nature, they’re filed under movie opinions and thoughts.
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There’s a leather post and a suit post and just multitudes of gorgeous people. I’m trying to get as much feedback as I can with these new features.
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Thanks for the positive feedback Fernando, it means a lot.
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It’s my pleasure! 🙂
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That’s good to hear, there’s some gorgeous people on these posts all for the blogging world’s viewing pleasure.
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