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2004-08-02
I have seen a bunch of movies lately: mostly from bittorrent, but some from netflix. And I actually made it to the theater to see Fahrenheit 9/11. Here are some notable ones that come to mind:
- Dreamkeeper - A Native American story with a whole bunch of smaller stories in it. Very nicely done, very good movie. Great special effects, imho. I never heard of this movie til I saw it on bittorrent.
- Lilja 4-Ever - A sad tale of a Russian girl who is abandoned by her mother and ends up as a sex slave. Watching this movie made me want to go out and castrate any man who has ever paid for sex. Just so we can breed these fuckers out of the gene pool once and for all. Ugh.
- The Butterfly Effect - Pseudo-time travel movie with dark overtones and a sad but fitting ending. I liked it, and I have to say I was impressed with Ashton Kutcher, which totally surprised me. I have to give him his due - he did quite well in this one.
- Donnie Darko - Weird, weird movie. That damn bunny creeped me the fuck out as I watched it alone at night. (Did I mention I tend to get really paranoid at night?)
- Elf - Disappointing. I had expected to laugh at Will Ferrell, but I don't think I laughed once watching this movie. Instead, I winced and waited for it to be over.
- Capturing the Friedmans - Very good and very sad. It's amazing how you get to watch this family implode, all through their own footage.
- Mr. Death - Disappointing. It droned on and on. If I had to watch one more minute of someone chiseling at a wall, I think I would probably scream.
- Monster - Disturbing. Charlize Theron is amazing in this one.
- Kids - Depressing as I thought it would be. Also, creepy.
- Hatley High - Silly tale of extreme chess at a high school completely devoted to the game. In this movie, the cool kids play D&D, and the most attractive girl is the DM. Heh. Had to suspend quite a bit of disbelief for that one.
- Cold Mountain - I didn't watch more than about a minute out of the middle of this, but that was enough. I don't like to see depictions of extreme cruelty and torture. That shit rattles around in my head and haunts me and bothers me long afterwards. Ugh.
- City of God - Surprising. I didn't realize it was mostly about a gang war, and set in the past. I had thought it was more of a slice-of-life in modern-day Brazilian slums sort of thing. Anyway, it was all right. Quite violent.
- Spiderman 2 - Pretty good. A little weird in places though.
- The Bourne Identity - All right I guess. If you want to see Matt Damon as a total badass, this is your film.
- The Village - Man I am glad I didn't pay money to see this thing. Weird, with the "aw, man!" twist at the end. Heh.
- Man on Fire - Very good. Denzel is quite the badass in this one, and Dakota Fanning as the little girl is quite incredible.
- Hidalgo - Cute. Aragorn as a Wild West type. Heh.
- Shadow of Fear - Lame. Steer clear of this one.
- Immortal - Quite possibly the oddest movie I have ever seen. Truly bizarre. If you want to see Egyptian gods in a futuristic setting, this is your movie.
- Riddick - I liked this a lot. Very nicely done ending, imho. If you like women who are total badasses, there is a beautiful one in this movie.
- Home on the Range - Meh. I didn't like the very angular way the animals were drawn, and Roseanne wasn't that great. Disney can do and has done so much better.
- Touching the Void - Holy shit, some people are really built tough. I totally would have given up, but this guy manages to survive. Truly grueling. Yow.
- Mystic River - Ugh.
- 21 Grams - Good, wrenching. Sean Penn is good.
- Girl with a Pearl Earring - Nice period piece. I liked it.
- Osama - Good, but depressing. I am glad I don't live in Afghanistan.
- Children of Heaven - Cute Iranian movie. The child actors in this one are incredible. Good one.
- Pieces of April - Charming, I liked it.
- Antwone Fisher - Good, disturbing. True story.
- Timeline - Entertaining enough I suppose.
- Elephant - Waste. Of. Time. I want back the time I spent watching this movie, because it was totally useless. It's like 99.3% watching people walk from point A to point B.
- House of Sand and Fog - Bummersville. Good though. Some jackass ruined the ending for me though. Thanks, dickhead.
- Master and Commander - Charming. The blond boy totally steals the show. He's great and a lot of fun to watch.
- The Good Thief - Cute and fun. I liked it.
- The Italian Job - Good. About what I expected.
Okay, that's quite a list. I think that's enough for now.
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2002-10-20
Not quite what was advertised: I saw the movie Riding in Cars with Boys last night, and I was utterly shocked at the way the movie turned out. But actually, what's more shocking is that I wasn't disappointed.
From the ads I had seen, I had expected the movie to be a rather ho-hum heartwarming piece about a girl who gets pregnant too young and struggles to make her way in the world saddled with a baby and a lout of a husband, where everything comes out rosy at the end.
Whoa. Not quite... there are layers of depth and pain and complexity in this movie that I hadn't suspected at all. And Drew Barrymore, who normally irks me, did an absolutely amazing job with her role.
Anyway, I liken this movie to a swimming pool that looks about three feet deep but is really about sixteen feet deep. I kept waiting for the simple happy ending around every corner, and it kept not coming.
What I really liked was how it portrayed all of the main characters as being imperfect, and locked into painful struggles both with and against each other. Teenage motherhood is not a simple thing, and I think they showed a remarkable level of truth about how it really puts the mother through the wringer.
The ending did eventually turn out to be happy, more or less. Kind of like real life. Not perfect, but the damaged souls manage to continue somehow. And there's a sense of healing there, too, which is what keeps it from being terribly depressing. (Though some people would argue it's still terribly depressing).
Overall I'd rate it as definitely worth seeing, and much richer than the advertising made it out to be. I notice that Penny Marshall is the director -- way to go, Laverne!
There. A movie review. A post not about me and my wacked-out brain, for once. :) See, I told you things were looking up...
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2002-09-03
Today is a fresh day: Some days just feel that way. I feel... cleansed, emotionally, in a certain fashion. A bit energetic, ready to face new projects and that kind of thing.
But first - some fun. I'm going to go to the movies, dangit. Because I want to, that's why. Because I'm an adult and I can and who knows if I'm going to be hit by a bus tomorrow anyway? (or today for that matter - I sure hope not).
I'm also going to go pay off my library fines, because I've got that hanging over my head and lord knows that librarians can be really powerful and dangerous when upset. They are truly a force to be reckoned with, as Michael Moore found out (his book went from about-to-be-pulped to the ny-times-best-seller-list once the librarians heard about it).
Anyhow, I'd better get going, I've got a date with the silver screen...
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2002-08-22
We saw Signs the other day: That is, the movie called Signs. I thought it was highly creepy and entertaining, until the end, at which point I felt rather cheated.
The whole thing seemed so cheesy, and I don't mean that in a good way - I mean that it took itself so bloody seriously and it all turned out to be about one little specific point. At least that's how it seemed to me.
The ending wasn't quite as lame as that in Unbreakable, but certainly in the same class. I was left wondering whether the Mel Gibson character was going to go on to be a superhero - Preacherman!
And I couldn't stand the facial expressions on the actress who played the cop - what's with her? She looked like she was always repressing a smile, and her whole face was squinted up strangely. I don't get it - it really just did *not* work at all.
That said, I think Mel and Joaquin Phoenix did an excellent job. Watch that Joaquin - I think he's going to kick ass in coming years, provided he gets some good movies to work on.
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2002-07-21
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea magnifica culpa: Okay, so I *didn't* get around to writing posts the other day. Please forgive me. Life got in the way (as it has a tendency to do) and I got quite busy.
Plus, Friday night & Saturday morning are my prime visiting times with Elena, so I was on Mommy duty much of the time. Yesterday, after we dropped Elena off, we went to the movies (Men in Black 2, highly recommended), shopping, and when we got home I was so tired I just conked out in bed after finally finishing off the latest Pratchett book I've been reading, Moving Pictures (also highly recommended).
This was around six pm, mind you.
So by around two or three, I was quite ready to get up. It's now 4:13am by my computer clock, and I'm going to see how many posts I can manage here before five, at which point I'll go read and take notes in the other room.
My schedule's really odd lately, and I know that's something I'm supposed to watch for because of my condition. I just want to reassure everyone that I'm feeling *fine* these days, taking my medication, et cetera. I was feeling quite horribly stressed before David got his new job last week, but things have improved drastically since he started work.
So, I've decided to write a book. A big book. I hope to have it in hand by Christmas. If it turns out there are only five copies which I have made at Kinko's and hand out just to close friends and family, and not even they really even bother to read the thing, that's okay. Because I need to write this book for *me*, to say what I need to say.
Though I figure at least one person besides me, somewhere, someday, will think that my book is worthwhile, and be glad that I wrote it. So I'm doing it for them, too.
But, I hear you in the peanut gallery crying, we've heard dramatic pronouncements from you before, Beth, yet you're the laziest person we know and we keep seeing all talk and no action from you. And I would say that you have a point.
But keep this in mind, dear peanut gallery: the last time I felt the need to write something big and important, a need so strong that it sort of took me over for a little while, I churned out 40,000 words in three days of frantic writing. That was a bit excessive and I didn't get enough sleep and so on when that happened, but what I'm trying to show is that I've got, or at least had in the past, a nice little pipeline into my noggin from whichever Muse controls these things. He / she / it / they know where to find me, in other words.
And so I have begun. I take lots of notes on 4 x 6 cards as I go through reading the book We've Got Blog. It's slow going, since I keep getting more and more ideas about the book I'm going to write, and I have to pause and write out notes about that before I can go back to writing notes about WGB and underline stuff and write in the margins.
And here's another thing about the book-to-come: I'm going to do it all myself. Why? Because I feel a compelling need to, that's why. More than just a want to, even. I have to show what I can do all on my own. If it's the kind of thing that merits a revision later, then I will accept some input from other people on the revision, but that will come later on.
For now, I need to get my ideas out as quickly and as well as I can, and frankly it would slow me down considerably to have to listen to someone else's opinions about what I'm writing, especially since I imagine most of the discussions would go something like this:
"Hey Beth, you should say something about ."
"I have a whole chapter about ."
"Hmmm, but you left out ."
"That's because I'm focusing on other things. Leave me alone, write your own darn book! Argh!"
And then subsequently I'd be going round in circles in my head, losing my original vision, as I wonder to myself "What if they're right and I really should go into huge detail about and all that?" and the dang book would *never get finished*.
Bah! Just deride me as another fool who thinks she's a mad, lone genius or something. Snicker away while I write, and then we'll chat after you've read my book, okay? I just don't have the time to deal with criticism about a work that isn't complete yet.
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2001-11-01
I saw K-Pax the other night
and it was pretty good. It wasn't quite what I expected from the previews (in itself a nice thing, I think). Fairly interesting, and I really liked Kevin Spacey in it. But then again, he's great in pretty much everything I've seen him in. I thought it was interesting in the movie that no one questions why in fact Kevin Spacey's character is put into a mental ward for so long when he's not a danger to anyone. His character doesn't even question it or protest, for that matter. Just an observation.
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2001-10-26
Lemons into lemonade.
That's what I'm trying to focus on when faced with the prospect that my hair is still falling out. So today I put barrettes in my hair, a type of barrette that heretofore has never been able to hold up that much of my hair. Er, I mean, the barrettes aren't holding more hair, it's that my head has less hair on the sides that needs to be held. Yeah. Anyway, it looks kind of nice. Back when my hair was incredibly thick, it was difficult to pull it back, because it was so heavy that it would fall out of any barrettes. But now, I don't have that problem. Sigh. I really *really* hope I don't go bald. If I do, though, I have hair set aside to make a wig, so it shouldn't be that bad. I'm wondering whether I should have my hair just trimmed when I go for a haircut, or whether I should have it cut to my recent typical length (where it reaches to the bottom of my neck, almost). I mean, if I only have a few hairs, they might as well be long, right? I guess so. Movie-wise, I watched Like Water For Chocolate today, and in less than an hour I'll leave to meet Anthony to go see 13 Ghosts. Should be cool. I went to the Heart of Texas Doulas social thing last night, which was spiffy. I got to meet some new people and see some interesting birth videos. The water births from Belgium made me wonder why on earth the doctor waited so darn long to bring the baby to the surface after it was born. Trust me, if you saw it, it'd freak you out. I know *I* would be yelling at the doc to bring the child up into the air already, dammit, if it were *my* baby. But it's not, so anyway...
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2001-07-14
Today's a mixed day:
but then again, most of them are these days. I had somewhat of a downer early in the day, but managed to put it out of my mind mostly when I went canoeing and then out to go see A.I. The movie was good, and I was proud of myself for eating relatively healthy food before the movie, and not too much of it. Of the movie, I would say that it kinda not quite achieved what it set out to do. I think I could tell where they were trying to be allegorical and so forth, but there comes a time when you weave so many threads together that what you end up with is a tangle. I dunno, that's just my impression. Feeling rather lonely at the moment. I thought earlier about doing some sewing or something, but my heart's just not in it right now. I feel like watching some tv maybe, or playing my guitar a little. I wish I could go to bed early and know that I'd actually be able to fall asleep. I'll have to see how early I can pull my bedtime tonight. I think last night was around 1:30am. Sigh. I should record some of the philosophy that's going through my head these days, Eternal Questions & Problems that ricochet (perhaps from the increased prozac). At least take notes, I mean... In that spirit, I will say: we never know what a situation is like until we're in it. We judge it ahead of time based on extremely limited information, and we think to one degree or another that our judgment is correct, but in reality we're never really prepared. We just have to wing it when we get there. Parenthood is a good example of a situation that follows this pattern. But of course, there are many others. Enough for now, I'm zoning in front of the monitor. That's not good.
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2001-06-18
I saw Atlantis:
and it was just okay - not great, but not horrible. I shouldn't have paid full price for it, really. I also finally got around to seeing Eyes Wide Shut the other day, because it was on HBO, and it was *very* good. I think I understood it pretty well. I can see how a lot of people wouldn't have been able to grasp it (or that it was just not presented in a way they could easily get ahold of). It's certainly not a conventional movie. But then again, with my brain the way it is these days... I dunno. I see symbols and analogies in *everything* to one degree or another (actually that has calmed down a bit since I increased one of my medications). Just reminds me that when you see a movie, your own point of view necessarily colors the whole experience quite a bit - you can't really separate what's going on in your own head that day from what's going on on the screen. This may be why films can be so different on a second viewing (plus you also remember at least some of what's coming). Hmm.
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2001-06-05
Unbreakable sucked:
and that's putting it kindly. I saw this one in the hotel room in San Antonio with my mother, and it's one of those wish-I-had-those-two-hours-of-my-life-back movies. Absolutely ghastly. Implausible, needlessly dark and dour, goofy, and the very end was just... unsatisfying. I will add that my mom thought it was funny that I realized who the bad guy would be at the end because he "had the lapels for it". Watched Fight Club on Cinemax tonight, found it more comprehensible the second time around...
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2001-05-01
Busy day...
I went bowling (and did better than my average on both games, woo woo!), worked out, saw the movie Traffic, went bra shopping, and picked up the ceramic pieces from The Ceramic Mug. The workout was quite nice - I used the newer-model EFX machine at the health club, and pushed myself rather hard. My heart is getting so wonderfully healthy - I kept the strides per minute in the 150s and 160s almost the whole time (better than the 140s and 130s I used to do). What a great feeling! I was so strong through the whole workout, feeling really good and powerful. Afterwards I lifted a little bit, then went into the big hot tub. Today had a special treat for me: the people in the AquaFit class in the pool serenaded me. The class is a water fitness class that is typically attended by older people, though it is by no means limited to them. They sang songs like "O What A Beautiful Morning" and "Yankee Doodle Dandee" during one part of their workout as they jogged in place in the water while they held on to water noodles. It was quite lovely to listen to, as they sang quite well and the sound carried and echoed through the pool room. Of course, they weren't really singing just for *me*, but I enjoyed it immensely just the same. It made me wonder what songs me and my compatriots will be singing when we're old and gray and doing water fitness classes. :) I then went and saw Traffic, which was great as everyone told me it would be. This is only the second movie I've gone to see in the theater by myself. It was fun, but by the time the movie let out, my mood was kind of down... I just got home, and I don't feel like doing much this evening, even though I'm still agitated about all my stuff all over the place, among other things. I feel like I'm juggling so many things in the air, and not doing a very good job of it. I've got too many irons in the fire, or rather, they're getting cold because I'm not actually keeping them in the fire. I'm worried that I'll run out of money, and that I can't think about getting a job until after Burning Man, because no job would dream of letting me have vacation that soon. Perhaps I'm being silly. This is actually quite likely to be true. :/ Part of the mood I'm in now, I guess. I'm thinking of doing a more journal-oid or diary-like web page thingie, in addition to the weblog. Of course, then I'd have to actually do weblog entries that are about the web or something, instead of any inane thing that pops into my head. Speaking of which, I'm not even hardly on the net anymore. I read my email once a day and that's about it. And I update this irregularly, with irregular entries. :) But seriously, I don't even read my favorite weblogs anymore - I'm so out of the current. Argh. I need to manage my time better. I need to relax, and not sweat it so much. I need to write more, and tell more of the story of the strange yet beautiful things that I thought were true when my brain was a bit off-kilter. Some of it was too far out there, but other parts of it are like a kind of poetry, a way of tying together strings of meaning that run through the universe. Sometimes I can still see glimpses of it, which is nice. I'm able to keep it in perspective now, which is a Good Thing. I see it now as something interesting to muse about, not as the be-all-end-all Truth Of The Universe. I'm sort of on a rather long self-imposed vacation right now, yet I'm not really able to relax... I hope tomorrow is a good day, with less down moodage.
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2001-02-08
Proof Of Life is a good movie:
so I don't quite understand why so many reviewers reacted to it with such lukewarm enthusiasm. Here are my reasons why I thought it was good: - Good characters - plausible, three-dimensional, several of whom underwent change due to the events portrayed.
- Good action - kept the movie going, wasn't gratuitous, wasn't so fast you couldn't keep track of what was happening, furthered the plot.
- Good pacing - some of the movie was rather slow and drawn out, which made sense considering it was a hostage drama that played out over 120-something days. It was never boring, mind you, but it did convey well a bit of the frustration of waiting for long periods of time without much happening.
- Good acting - Russell Crowe was of course stupendously wonderful, but David Caruso was a fabulous surprise as well. Meg Ryan did well in a role that by necessity pinned her to a narrow range of "worried wife". For a few moments, I thought to myself "hey, what has she ever done that's been a truly challenging role?" and then of course I remembered Courage Under Fire, which is one of my all-time favorites - she was truly excellent in that one.
- No gratuitous sex. All we see is one (1) kiss. That's it. And it's a very emotional and appropriate kiss, I thought. Now, I'm not an opponent of sex in the movies when it makes sense in the context of the story, of course. So many movies just sprinkle on some naked breasts (like, ahem, Shadow of the Vampire) or sex scenes like salt on french fries.
- Good dialogue - nothing seemed stilted or stupid or cliche. At least to me.
Now, I'll grant that the presence of Russell Crowe by itself scored huge points for me, but I think they are deserved. :) It's the first time I ever went to a movie by myself, by the way. For some reason I have always been too nervous to go by myself. How utterly silly - it was not a big deal at all. I got there late since I thought the movie theater was somewhere other than where it was, but I only missed the first part of the credits. It was bizarre how the vending counter lady tried to get me to buy the super-huge soft drink, when I only wanted the middle size. She even offered to pay the difference for me. I said "What's the deal? Are you required to sell a certain number of those?" She shook her head No. So I have no idea why she did it. I explained that the big one was too big - I'd drink too much and then have to pee before the movie was over. Finally, she relented. It was surreal, I tell ya...
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2001-02-05
Shadow of the Vampire sucked:
And I wrote a Blab entry to Steve of Plurp about how my opinion differs from his glowing review: Shadow of the Vampire just wasn't as good for me as it was for you. Where you saw elegance in the metaphor wrapping around itself, I saw plodding obviousness - "Oh gee, here we see that the director is at least as evil as Orlock, if not more so. Ho, hum, gee, how surprising. Not." This was foreshadowed and then slammed home heavy-handedly repeatedly throughout the film. The "You and I are not so different" line is wasted by being used so soon in the film. By the end, I was not surprised at all - the director was a total monomaniacal jerk in every other scene in the movie before the finale, so there was nothing to be surprised at (except perhaps that Orlock actually followed his orders/requests until the end).
Yes it was fun watching the exquisitely-made-up Dafoe's performance, but for me, that couldn't carry the film. Only the appearance of Eddie Izzard allows me to avoid resentment for the time this movie took from my life. Near the beginning, there was one scene where Malkovich and the actress he's speaking to are both completely blurry, although the wall on the set behind them is in perfect focus - was this supposed to be some artsy touch meant to impress me? It just came off as seeming sloppy - why on earth would you have your principals be blurry on purpose? This "technique" (if it was even done on purpose) wasn't used later on in the movie that I could tell, which in my mind lends support to the theory that it was just a mistake.
When Orlock says "it made me sad" in reference to Dracula, he then goes on to say *why*: because Dracula must have had to prepare food for the visitor(s) himself - he had no servants. Lamenting the absence of servants for a person accustomed to them does not cross my personal threshold for evoking pathos. Sorry.
And the end was sort of empty for me - I mean, the film Nosferatu is finished, but what happens to the characters? I guess this is part of the "if it isn't in frame, it doesn't exist" philosophy, but I couldn't help wondering whether Orlock was dead or just injured or something.
I've only seen three movies in the theater in the past two years, so my standards might be a bit too high, I admit. Also, when we left the house, I thought we were going to see Proof of Life (with Russell Crowe, *swoon*), but the paper misled us and we had to see something else instead... that may have a lot to do with my disappointment.
-Beth As they say, there's no accounting for taste...
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2001-01-20
Some duds, and an unexpected surprise:
I rented Princess Mononoke, among other things (and it *was* available on VHS - I was wrong when I wrote that it was only on DVD, mea culpa). It was very, very *bizarre*, and not as good as I thought it would be. It was okay, just... odd. Not what I was really looking for. We also got some new videos for Elena today, including a few more classics (Sound of Music, Pinocchio, Aristocats), The Brave Little Toaster (haven't finished watching it, but it doesn't look all that great, especially compared to some of the gems we've already got), and Homeward Bound (excellent, makes me bawl my eyes out) plus its sequel. Oh yeah, we also got the Buzz Lightyear animated movie, which I don't have high hopes for, but Spencer wanted. And this morning I was rooting for something to watch and happened upon The Scent of Green Papaya on the Sundance channel. I *really* liked it. Wow, the imagery is really neat. Lots of gorgeous details, if you're into that kind of thing (many people aren't, of course). I love the Vietnamese houses, and even the clothing. I will have to try to find patterns like those (which, incidentally, are similar to some of the outfits in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an exquisitely excellent film). I am thinking most people would find Papaya really boring, but I liked watching the household routine, and just staring at the house, courtyard, and so on. Someday it would be nice to have a house kind of like that (in an appropriate climate, of course!) Anyway, it's replaying now, so I'm taping it. That way I can go back and look at the details...
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2001-01-08
Hayao Miyazaki is amazing!
He's the guy who has done My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, and a bunch of other things, including Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. I am very impressed with his work, and I can't wait to see more of it. I'm going to buy the Nausicaa graphic novels, and since Princess Mononoke came out on DVD but isn't out on VHS, it's the perfect excuse for me to break down and buy a DVD player! :) I'm just reading all sorts of stuff about him, including interviews with him. Here's a small taste: I love this exquisite feeling - knowing that I have a bunch of really wonderful things to see and read, and that the author clearly has a worldview similar to mine (at least in certain ways). I'm giddy with anticipation!
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2001-01-08
My Neighbor Totoro:
One of the movies in Elena's collection is My Neighbor Totoro, and I like it quite a bit. It features strong, positive female main characters, something I'm always on the lookout for. I'm so glad that there are more of them out there than when I was a kid. Chicken Run also has strong female characters, too. I love Ginger - I love how she's a responsible leader, good at bringing together the strengths of the other chickens and coordinating their efforts, strong *and* caring, she's brave, clever, adventurous, uncompromising, and also well respected (mostly) by the other chickens. And most of all, she doesn't put up with any crap from Rocky. She eventually earns his respect, too. Back to Totoro for a moment. I found the script, at a nifty site about the movie. I wish there were some little action figures I could buy for Elena. This movie is great. I love how the characters really work together as a community. And how even though the girls' mother is sick, it's coped with sanely by all involved, I think. It's just so... non-American, really. And I love the underlying reverence for and wonder of nature. Great, great movie. I can't wait to start a garden with Elena this year - I'll bet that she'll yell "Totoro!!" when our seeds start to grow. :)
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