KEVICC Courier Spring

Lion Director: Garth Davis Running Time: 118 minutes Starring: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara Synopsis: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometres from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. So I was sitting with Mrs Chilton at home. Mrs Chilton says ‘Do you fancy watching a film?’ ‘Sure, what do you fancy?’ was my reply. ‘Lion’ she said. ‘I don’t want to watch a Disney film, I’m not four’ was my husband-not-really-listening-reply. ‘It’s not a Disney film.’ We then got into a discussion about whether Disney films were just for children. She won. They are not. She won because she showed me the beginning of Up and I started crying like a little baby. I hadn’t cried since the 6th of May 2014 (Crystanbul if you need to ask). Most four year olds regard the beginning of Up as ‘the boring bit’. Adults regard it as a punch in the emotional gut. Wife 1, Chilton 0. I wasn’t convinced on Lion though. My wife watches TV programmes like Long Lost Family and other shows I find thoroughly depressing. She has a history of watching things that are depressing. She once told me about a film called Sarah’s Key. DO NOT WATCH SARAH’S KEY. Her review of it made me feel so depressed and I hadn’t even watched it. When she told me the ending I nearly ate my own fist. I am always suspicious of the films my wife recommends. ‘I don’t want to watch something depressing though.’ She said ‘it’s not depressing’. I trusted her and I watched the film. She lied. By the end of the film I was proper blubbing. I mean, these weren’t slight tears, a slight moving of the emotion as in a film like The Lion King when Simba’s dad dies. No, I was a mess, an absolute mess. And my wife sat there laughing. Lion had made me realise something: I had married a psychopath. It is a good film. A very good film. The performances in it are excellent. It opens your eyes to the lives of children in different cultures. It makes you feel emotional. This is good film-making. Good film-making always creates an emotional response. I recommend you watch it though I can’t promise you’ll like it. ‘Like’ isn’t the right word. But it will affect you unless you are emotionally inept or…a psychopath. Maybe it was because I was duped. Maybe because during the whole thing I had ‘hope’. Hope can be a terrible thing in certain situations. Like hoping you can win the Premier League, being 3 goals up away to Crystal place with 10 minutes to go and then you end up drawing 3-3. All hope has gone. Lion is similar. You’ll need to watch the film to work out why. If I say anything else it’ll ruin ‘the experience’. So let me know how it makes you feel. Rating: **** The Staffroom Chilton's Film Review ~ The Voice in Film Here's Mr Chilton's with another film review for the Courier. But guess what, he loves this one. Well kind of. Spoiler alert: This film is very emotional. Tom's Playlist Recommendation TomGreig is our brilliant Performing Arts Technician and all-round brilliant guy. As an avid vinyl lover and music maestro we got in touch with Tom to hear what he's been listening to recently... Infest the Rats' Nest by King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard The KEVICC eco team have been doing such a great job running successful events across the College, which we have heard about all over the Courier in this issue. Great work guys! But what if you didn’t feel quite so enthused to do something for the planet? Well.. I have the perfect solution. This album might not be to everyone’s taste as it’s quite heavy but it really does make you feel pumped to save the planet! No song more so than the first track ‘Planet B’, which opens with a blistering drum solo played across two drum kits (yes, they have two drummers! I’m not exactly sure why?) And it’s hard not to get into the groove of the guitar riff. Although the lyrical content is somewhat dark and disturbing, the groovyness takes over and sparks thoughts of ensuring I do my bit to save the planet. I’d say that Art and especially Music are the most powerful ways to highlight such issues and this song especially, has inspired me to think of ways in which I can reduce my carbon footprint. Whilst having a great time listening to it on repeat of course (using low energy smart speakers...)! The first half of the album is set in the near future and really focuses on a pending ecological disaster. Maybe they saw into the future last year when they also wrote the song ‘Superbug’. Scary! However, the B-side is about a group of rebels trying to settle on Venus after being forced to leave Earth. So the serious message is balanced out with a touch of total madness from this great band! Their back catalogue which only spans about 8 years consists of 15 full albums, 3 live albums and 2 EPs. All of which are really eclectic and completely different so don’t let the Thrash Metal vibe of Infest The Rats’ Nest put you off. They have something for everyone, even strange quarter tone guitars! Check them out!