OPA! Wrote:
What'd you think of The Motorcycle Diaries, Dave? I don't recall reading your opinion on the movie.
I fucking loved it. It made me think back to the times when I thought I believed in things, and that righteous indignation and a desire to change the world would lead me to bigger and better things.
I thought the cinematography was outta this world, and that while it kind of played like a travelogue, and they tried to leave it in the context that it was, without delving into what Che would become, they still left hints at his awakening to social consciousness and the need (in his eyes) for violence in any revolution.
I commented to my friend Tommy (the filmaker) that it was sorta like watching the Star Wars prequels, and trying to figure out what made Anakin turn into Vader. (A simplistic simile, but I remain a simple man)
I told chase a while back that I am quite glad you guys goaded me into giving up my "no subtitles" rule, b/c I think all the good movies I've seen this year are foreign (Amored Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, City of God, Motorcycle Diaries)
I think this may spur me into watching Truffaut and stuff that I have always been semi curious about, but would never bring myself to do before.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
