it was only right after a tumulous week that i spend pretty much most of the weekend catching up on my movie watching. first off, the last of the latin american film festival, chile's 'sexo con amor' (sex and love). it was HILARIOUS. if any of you have seen mexico's 'y tu mama tambien'(and your mother too) then its as funny, if not funnier. its to explicit in terms of sexual reference, it was uneasy at first, but it broke off into a series of comedies that i enjoyed thoroughly. i will never look at laundry machines the same way again.
good thing was, they had some good hispanic food, to close an end to the festival, so chris and i ate there, instead of spending money getting chinese deliveries. dan totally missed out on this because he prefered to be lazy that day. thankfully, it wasnt raining like the night before.
i came back, had pretty much nothing else to do, so i started downloading the films from a list that i keep. imdb's movie highlight was on this spanish film featuring gael garcia bernal, named 'la mala educacion' (bad education) centered on the events that a boy who was a victim of a roman catholic priest's pedophilic indulgence. the boy grows up to be a homosexual, and then he changes his sex later, and becomes a drag queen/heroin addict, so decides to write a script for a movie, telling his story, and tries to sell it to his 'first' lover, a director, but before doing so, he decides to blackmail the priest. it was very thought provocative storyline, but i really liked the movie for its worth. i found out later that it was by pedro almodovar, the same director who did 'hable con ella' (talk to her) so i was pretty impressed.
i was feeling like watching another movie, so i started watching 'finding neverland.' it was pretty decent, though the quality of the movie failed to grab me, probably because i was continuously bothered by the people that were going in and out of my room. but i understand why it was nominated as one of the best movies of the year. had i seen that in the theatres, i think it would have been marvelous, and i remember the day when i had the chance, with pamela and leisha, we opted to see 'the grudge' which happened to be one of the worst choices i made in terms of watching a movie as that turned out disastrous.
the next day, after working on some of my projects for a while, i started with this really radical, abstract, part documentary, part spirituality, part movie thing named 'what the #$*! do we know!?' (i'm not kidding, that is the title of the movie, substitute #$*! with whatever four letter expletive that you think is suitable) it basically takes you through the question of our existence and how we relate to everything around us and beyond using whatever known and understood theories of quantum physics. it seemed obsurd to hear some of what was being said by the experts at times, but some of it actually made a lot of sense. its such a radical idea, i had a hard time keeping up with all that was going on, but that was helped by the occasional scene involving characters and some animations. later, it was shown that all those experts that were sharing their theories were professors of physics, philosophy, psychology and whatnot in major universities like stanford, coumbia and pennsylvania and all. i'd like to see the movie again, paying more attention to detail, but the movie feels like it goes on forever. the first 40 minutes felt as it i was on this crazy ride for 2 hours, so i have to be mentally prepared.
the last movie for the weekend was something that caught my interest through the trailers, but one that evaded me for sometime, 'identity.' my initial perception was that its just another one of those regular slash flicks. since i had been watching really mentally stimulating movies for the whole weekend, i thought i take it easy with a no brainer for once. however, the movie turned out to be better than i expected, with a twist in the story that is actually pretty smart, not the usual killer gone all out to take revenge for some stupid event. i didnt see it coming to be honest, and it was a pretty neat surprise.
i guess im more or less done with my japanese group project. i gotta work on english for a while, and that will be done, and then my solo japanese project, which should take about a day or two. then i gotta get to material science revision, which will probably be my toughest final. thank god its the first one.
i decided to drop both psychology and accounting. the thought of taking 21 hours make me wonder if its worth it. since my initial plan was to take whatever that are not offered over the summer, im going ahead with that, and taking MSE and EAS, which are only offered during regular semesters. also, i remember something about students having to stop co-oping once they are within 50 hours to graduation, and if i were to take 21 hours, then i think i will be about 8 or 9 hours from that point, after only one work term. besides, 17 hours wouldn't be too bad i guess. if john offers the discussion class, i'll probably take that as a pass-fail class. 5 classes to manage. i should learn from my lesson not to take on too much at once, and take it easy. i already have the CA job to get used to, and i better start on a good note for my first semester. i'll pledge to a fraternity over the spring, so that i can spend my time after my work to hang around at the house and get to know people.
phew, at least that's one off my mind.
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