Nusraat

Cheese balls.  Annoying.  Pathetic.  Hit every cliche.  Rentable perhaps.  Crap.

Just got home from seeing this movie.  I was planning on seeing the movie because it was filmed in Winnipeg and some friends of mine were extras.  Tipu was the one who actually noticed it started playing.

The movie is about a single mom bringing her teenage son to America (Amreeka).  They come at a pretty bad time, when the States are just starting their fight in Iraq.  The movie is very… quiet and simple, I would say it’s quiet and intimate.  It stirred up a lot of emotions in me.  The first thing I did once I got home was watch an episode of the Hills to dilute my brain out.  I needed some froth badly.  The movie left me a little nauseous.  First off, why can’t people open a map?  Why can’t they learn a few countries?  Why not?  Is it because they believe they are the center of the world?  Every other culture looks at education as a blessing where as Westerners some how look at it as a chore.  Perhaps the education system has bleached all the joy out of learning.  Who knows.  *sigh*  Secondly, how angry would I be if my kid went to fight a war under false pretenses?  I don’t even understand how some people must be feeling right now.  I would lose it.  Thirdly seeing how there was violence in the school as a result of wars elsewhere, it just was the most horrible recursive function I could think of.  It’s bad enough people suffer across the world but then it’s in your home, it’s in your marraige, it’s in your kids… it’s everywhere and there’s no inoculation for it.  This is not a feel good movie.  I’m glad it was made though.

I saw Up in 3D at Grant Park.  It was good.

Good sappy fun.

This movie is based on a book.  The author was one of the key writers in the tv series Sex in the City.  There was an episode where the dating theology was featured.  The author of the book makes a brief cameo in the movie, he plays the priest in the wedding.  Overall the movie is good.  There are some interesting similarities in the tv series and the movie that I’d like to point out.  I’m sure there are more so please add to the list.

- smokers are not to be trusted.  Carrie sneaked cigs while she was cheating on Aden.

- importance of home space.  big personal changes often coincide with reno projects