I thought RSI was a bollocks made-up thing like Yuppie Flu and Cat AIDS (both real), but for once it's not laziness that stops me getting any work done, I am genuinely not able to sit down at the pc and use the tablet or mouse. My fingers are tingling just from using the laptop's trackpad - which I despised long before now and still do. Anyway...
I just sort of rushed through the colour on this and assumed I'd get back to it later (obviously I have not had that opportunity thanks to recent events), which is why the tones are wonky and the shot of Cookstown's Chapel/Church Street (it's one or the other depending what religeon you are - no, really) looks a bit like Los Angeles to my eyes. Which it should, because Cookstown is the Los Angeles of Mid Ulster, and I'm not just saying that because we have a crack problem and drive by shootings, I'm saying that in jest because it is not true.
For some reason I never got around to dropping that cutaway visual at the end, but at the time, a recurring theme in Frank (as was) was the lies and ignorance that hold communities together, and nothing to my mind said Big Fat Lie like an episode of the Jeremy Kyle Show, in which an equivalence is drawn on a daily basis between the terms "scum of humanity" and "working class" by a smug ferret-like being in a suit whose face I should like to punch with fists made of broken glass and rusty nails. Regardless, the joke may not really work but thematically it's justified enough for inclusion.
TTFN.
(1)I would break a habit of a lifetime and what THAT particular example of victim-TV!
ReplyDelete(2) If I may, I sympathise greatly with the cruel ironies of working hard and hurting yourself. On the "that's not fair" scale, that registers a "not-fair" grade.
Last year I embarked on a determined campaign to get fit. Five weeks of daily 90 minute sessions down the gym resulted in a trapped nerve in my back and the loss of feeling in my right leg for seven months. That earned me a "not-fair" grading too.
Good luck on getting some good luck back into that hand.
It would of course have helped that first point of mine to make sense if it had read;
ReplyDelete(1)I would break a habit of a lifetime and watch THAT particular example of victim-TV!
Apologies ...
Sounds like you actually worked for your injury, Colin (and we got two good blogs out of it: "it's an ill wind" and all that), mine is sort of baffling as I was never organized or committed enough that I think I've 'earned' it. I really am rather a lazy swine...
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