You are Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. You are
on a neverending crusade to interrupt the
silence of God. You desire to know secrets
that aren't yours to know. You probe too
deeply, and tussle with death. Ultimately,
there is nothing.


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So I'm gay and I tussle with death.

I also slack at work.

I keep meaning to write about all the flicks I keep going to, but I just never get around to it. I guess I'll start with 28 Days Later. And of course, as always, spoilers are to be highlighted. The movie opens with a Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree Dwellers (or C.L.I.T.) style invasion to rescue what seems to be abused chimps and other cute little monkeys. However, in the midst of the rescue attempt, one of the reseach scientists enters in and calls security. El scientisto is able to give the warning that the monkeys that they are trying to save have been infected with a virus/"rage". And sure enough, as the cages are opened, the monkey's virus spreads, and the scientist attempts to block the virus from spreading in the only known way: killing the host before they can vomit blood on anyone else, or attack them in a zombie-vampire like rage. 28 days later we see a naked, unshaven Cillian Murphy lying in a hospital bed. He awakes to silence and emptiness all around London. I'm impressed at how silent and vacant the director (Danny Boyle, Trainspotting) managed to get the city. It becomes obvious when you recognize that it is almost always twilight in the movie in populated areas. The filming of those scenes apparently were a matter of minutes of open time, club-goers were the only people out at that time. Super cool. I think the parts that I liked the most about it was that it created an alarmingly realistic portrait of how the world would react to a virus of that calliber and nature. It portrayed human nature as very competative for survival, and showed how much humans are social creatures dependant on others to survive. And it posed the great question: Why survive? Why would one want to live through hell for the matter of living through hell and no other promise? For Hannah and her father it was a matter of making sure the other one is alright. For Jim and Selena, it seemed that they didn't entirely know why they were moving forward other than the basic instinct to survive. And then, it comes back to why would you fight to survive? I really liked this movie a lot, and will buy the R1 DVD when it comes out.

Also seen this weekend was Spellbound. A documentary about the US National Spelling Bee championship thingy. The story follows eight very diverse kids on their way to the nationals. I wonder how the documentarians decided who to follow, or if they followed hundreds and whittled it down to the remaining 8. Those that were removed early on in the competition were the more fascinating of the stories, I found. And my favourite was Harry Altman. The best part was a local Hooters arranged their sign to say "Congradulations" to the regional champion. Another town misspelled "champ." Those were nice touches to showing the importance of spelling. But who's to say that knowing how to spell "heleoplankton" is a vital skill? Is the spelling important or the studying and determination the value attained at these competitions?

There. I've got around to posting again.

Next week (July 9th) is Pirate Day. This means dressing like a pirate to the opening of The Pirates of the Carribean: Blah Blah Curse Blah Black Pearl.