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Synchronicity III

By Eric Hill • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Coincidence?, Essays, Feature Post, In Brief

So it’s Monday afternoon and I have the rest of the day off. Rather than do something productive like write or even put away laundry that’s been in my tote since mid-October I decide to pick a movie off the shelf to watch. I settle on Babel, mostly because I’ve been watching nothing but horror movies since Halloween (the day, not the movie).

So the DVD automatically cues up the trailers for some reason and rather than go to the main menu I just let them play. Second up is the movie Perfume, Tom Twyker’s film that I’d ignored for a little while before finally watching (and liking) last summer. As the montage unspooled I noticed the red-haired actress that played Laura, one of Grenouille’s perspective victims for the essence of her scent. I tried to remember what her real name was but couldn’t.

So tonight I go to IMDB and pull up the movie page and the actor credits are listed in order of appearance or something, but I notice her picture in the links at the top:

So I click on the link and bring up the picture which also has her name:

So, you know, I click on that link to see what she’s been in since, or is coming up in:

So (1) I notice that she is much younger than I remembered.  In fact she must have been 15 when she filmed Perfume.  So that kinda creeps me out a little.  And (2) she’s been in a couple of brainy sounding British films this year that I’d read about but haven’t seen.  Finally (3) she is set to star in what looks to be another sweeping epic next year.
I’ve been going to this fun film-slash-stock market site called HSX or Hollywood Stock Exchange for a few years now.  It essentially is a play funds site where you can buy stock on upcoming films, stars or predictions of opening box office, betting on how well they will do.  I’d lapsed for a year or more, but recently went back to reconnect.  It’s a quick and interactive way to get some insight into films as they progress through development and into production.
So after seeing Rachel Hurd-Wood’s building filmography I go over to HSX to log in and see if she has a StarBond stock yet.  I type in the URL and the home page comes up revealing this:

….Aaaannnnnd Synchronicity!!!!
Scene.
Exit.
Lights Down.
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