“All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story,”
Oh well, the flaws I pointed out in the previous episode are still there in "Secundo"...
I am not sure how long I'm going to be willing to take all the pseudo-fantasy sequences. Someone should tell them that you can tell a fairy-tale without indulging in so many fade-in/fade-out and fuzzy shots, and frankly the close-up of snails are getting out of control...
I wonder if all the tributes to Karen Blixen are there for Mads Mikkelsen!
Because yes the quote I put on the subject line, is from Blixen, when she was still using Isak Dinesen as her pen name. And it's really weird because I watched episode 4, 5 and 6 of 1864 yesterday on ARTE and the real Dinesen (Karen's father) was there and later a character mentioned Karen Blixen for giving them the sword Dinesen used during the war. Looks like the Danes are everywhere these days.
Also there's the Hannibal washing Bedelia's hair ( a great scene), which is so reminiscent of that scene from Out of Africa in which Denys washed Karen's hair !!! I'd rather have Mads Mikkelsen wash my hair though, for Robert Redford never did a thing to me.
Anyway the Bedelia/Hannibal scenes were again the highlights of the episode, for their funny lines and for the thrill that goes with the twisted fellowship...while I wasn't convinced much by Will's journey in the Lecters' estate. I am not sure that the character of Chyro makes sense in terms of time-line and Mischa plot, and we didn't learn anything new about Will Graham (he was already willing to use someone last season when he tried to kill Hannibal by proxy).
The final imago he made up according to a design that imitated (challenged) Hannibal's tableaux, an imago which was supposed to be a firefly, I guess (given the pieces of mirror and the previous scene when he was surrounded by fireflies), but looked like a dragon fly, was anything but surprising. I'm really getting bored there.
I liked the Jack/Pazzi scenes, though. But Jack has always been my favourite.
I am not sure how long I'm going to be willing to take all the pseudo-fantasy sequences. Someone should tell them that you can tell a fairy-tale without indulging in so many fade-in/fade-out and fuzzy shots, and frankly the close-up of snails are getting out of control...
I wonder if all the tributes to Karen Blixen are there for Mads Mikkelsen!
Because yes the quote I put on the subject line, is from Blixen, when she was still using Isak Dinesen as her pen name. And it's really weird because I watched episode 4, 5 and 6 of 1864 yesterday on ARTE and the real Dinesen (Karen's father) was there and later a character mentioned Karen Blixen for giving them the sword Dinesen used during the war. Looks like the Danes are everywhere these days.
Also there's the Hannibal washing Bedelia's hair ( a great scene), which is so reminiscent of that scene from Out of Africa in which Denys washed Karen's hair !!! I'd rather have Mads Mikkelsen wash my hair though, for Robert Redford never did a thing to me.
Anyway the Bedelia/Hannibal scenes were again the highlights of the episode, for their funny lines and for the thrill that goes with the twisted fellowship...while I wasn't convinced much by Will's journey in the Lecters' estate. I am not sure that the character of Chyro makes sense in terms of time-line and Mischa plot, and we didn't learn anything new about Will Graham (he was already willing to use someone last season when he tried to kill Hannibal by proxy).
The final imago he made up according to a design that imitated (challenged) Hannibal's tableaux, an imago which was supposed to be a firefly, I guess (given the pieces of mirror and the previous scene when he was surrounded by fireflies), but looked like a dragon fly, was anything but surprising. I'm really getting bored there.
I liked the Jack/Pazzi scenes, though. But Jack has always been my favourite.