''Music. & Life.''

Finding Fulfillment in ‘Bending Steel’

Of the thousands and thousands of micro-cultures extant today, the pursuit of bending things is a particularly niche obsession. This is the world of Bending Steel, which follows the personal journey of Chris Schoeck as he tries to find path forward to improving his body, mind, and spirit. He locates this path via the traditions of the vaudeville strongmen of Coney Island, who were known to bend nails, horseshoes, and steel bars with their hands, legs, necks, or even their hair and teeth. As Schoeck trains and challenges himself to bend, he finds a family of sorts among other would-be strongmen — the kind of kinship and validation that had eluded him for his entire life. The story culminates in a strongman show on Coney Island where Schoeck attempts to bend a steel bar that has always defeated him before, in front of his friends and a crowd of strangers who represent all his fears and doubts. We spoke to director Dave Carroll and producer/cinematographer Ryan Scafuro about how Bending Steel became a film and what its narrative means for Schoeck and for themselves.

Along with that poster comes the trailer for “Elysium,” which definitely explores more of the world created by Neil Blomkamp, the South African director who made such a splash with the tremendously thoughtful low-budget sci-fi hit “District 9.” 

Here, Matt Damon and Jodie Foster represent two very different populations, with one condemned to a not-very-good life on the surface while the other lives well in a satellite far above. In this way, it’s not so different from one of the underlying conceits of “District 9” and its subtle conversation about apartheid. 

See what Blomkamp’s come up with this time with the full trailer here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/video-hot-trailer-elysium-matt-damon/

Read the whole comic book on my blog :

www.antoinedore.tumblr.com