Movie day
Yes, another lazy day has happily passed.
After having a late lunch/early dinner, me and my friends Panayotis, Nora and Antonis went to Famous Players where we watched two movies. (Antonis left after the first one because he had to go to work early in the morning).
The first one was Crash. Now the movie is about an ordinary (I guess) topic: Racial conflict and stereotypes in USA. The setting: Los Angeles. The characters involve a number of people representing the white, the African-American, Latino, Arab and Asian community. The theme is rather simple and straightforward but still powerful: In a city that everyone minds their own business, the unavoidable interaction of people of different race and their will (and unwillingness) to overcome their prejudices and stereotypes leaves room only for one color: gray.
If there is a strong point in this movie (sometimes I thought the message was too straightforward; I always believed that movies of this type have to make the audience think for themselves and not give them something already filtered to ponder on) is that people are just gray. There is no black and white, no good or evil, no racist or liberal, it is all circumstantial... Specific situations can bring the best and the worst of us to the surface.
Overall, it is an interesting movie and although it does not avoid some clichés it is worth watching.
The second movie was a bit more easy going: The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. O.K., the movie is funny, not absolutely hilarious like Kung-Fu Hustle (see previous post) but still funny. I cannot tell you too much about this movie, only that I recognized some intentional references to Star Trek (that babel fish thing that acted as a universal translator and the Vogon's statement :"Resistance is useless!" (Come on!!!)) and Star Wars (the light-saber knife that toasts bread while it cuts it(!!) was a nice idea). However, the funniest part of the movie was the dolphins song. (BTW, the dolphins are the second most intelligent life form on Earth, and for your information, we are the third; if you want to know what the first is, you have to see the movie). Here is my favorite part of that song:
"....The world's about to be destroyed/
there is no point getting all annoyed/
lie back and let the planet dissolve/
Despite those nets of tuna fleets/
we thought that most of you were sweet/
especially tiny tots and pregnant women/
So long, so long, so long, so long,/
so long, so long, so long, so long/
and thanks, for all the fish!...
Yes, I had some good time today!!
After having a late lunch/early dinner, me and my friends Panayotis, Nora and Antonis went to Famous Players where we watched two movies. (Antonis left after the first one because he had to go to work early in the morning).
The first one was Crash. Now the movie is about an ordinary (I guess) topic: Racial conflict and stereotypes in USA. The setting: Los Angeles. The characters involve a number of people representing the white, the African-American, Latino, Arab and Asian community. The theme is rather simple and straightforward but still powerful: In a city that everyone minds their own business, the unavoidable interaction of people of different race and their will (and unwillingness) to overcome their prejudices and stereotypes leaves room only for one color: gray.
If there is a strong point in this movie (sometimes I thought the message was too straightforward; I always believed that movies of this type have to make the audience think for themselves and not give them something already filtered to ponder on) is that people are just gray. There is no black and white, no good or evil, no racist or liberal, it is all circumstantial... Specific situations can bring the best and the worst of us to the surface.
Overall, it is an interesting movie and although it does not avoid some clichés it is worth watching.
The second movie was a bit more easy going: The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. O.K., the movie is funny, not absolutely hilarious like Kung-Fu Hustle (see previous post) but still funny. I cannot tell you too much about this movie, only that I recognized some intentional references to Star Trek (that babel fish thing that acted as a universal translator and the Vogon's statement :"Resistance is useless!" (Come on!!!)) and Star Wars (the light-saber knife that toasts bread while it cuts it(!!) was a nice idea). However, the funniest part of the movie was the dolphins song. (BTW, the dolphins are the second most intelligent life form on Earth, and for your information, we are the third; if you want to know what the first is, you have to see the movie). Here is my favorite part of that song:
"....The world's about to be destroyed/
there is no point getting all annoyed/
lie back and let the planet dissolve/
Despite those nets of tuna fleets/
we thought that most of you were sweet/
especially tiny tots and pregnant women/
So long, so long, so long, so long,/
so long, so long, so long, so long/
and thanks, for all the fish!...
Yes, I had some good time today!!
posted by Immortalis at 2:41 π.μ.
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