Stranger than fiction

Some movie...!

Stranger than fiction (imdb link) caught me and kept me awake, what a twisted story! I can't help being a little bit in love with Emma Thompson, she plays an impressively screwed up author and her elegant voice almost acts in its own role as "the narrator". Dustin Hoffman plays, well, himself almost? He seems to be typecast this way nowadays, but quite a pleasant professor in this film. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a very attractive "ornament" (not fair, I know, but) without her the movie would've been horribly dull and colourless. Her character's person and home made absolute perfect sense as the "new life" of Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell.

Initially I almost found it hard to watch Will Ferrell, but the capturing thing was to realise that the character developed as the film continued its way - probably almost like most fictional characters must develop in their author's minds...

I found myself wondering "how the heck?", "what the..?", "how are they going to..?" all through the film, and the answer - they did! They really pulled it off. :-)

Go watch.

	Will Ferrell	...	Harold Crick
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	...	Ana Pascal
	Dustin Hoffman	...	Professor Jules Hilbert
	Queen Latifah	...	Penny Escher
	Emma Thompson	...	Kay Eiffel

Apocalypto

Epic, is not quite an appropriate word to describe this film, although it has an "epic" quality to it because of the historic events it borders to.

I would rather like to describe it as "amazing" and "fantastic". :-)

I liked it a lot because of the time they took to communicate emotion, they really managed to develop the characters. I loved the amazing rainforest environment and the action. There was two or three instances of gore which they could have spared us, but other than that - fantastic!

Apocalypto (imdb link)

Little Miss Sunshine

Take the most depressing individuals you can find and bundle them up into a family and add a typical (horrible) American beauty contest for children. Then add a shortage of money, a long way to drive in a short time, a pinch of bureaucracy and the result: LURV!

I can't help it!
I cringed, I was embarrassed, I was ready to give up. But it came around, believe you me. :-)
It's a thing of beauty.
(imbd link)

	Abigail Breslin	....	Olive
	Greg Kinnear	....	Richard
	Paul Dano	....	Dwayne
	Alan Arkin	....	Grandpa
	Toni Collette	....	Sheryl
	Steve Carell	....	Frank

Pan's Labyrinth

Original title: "El Laberinto del Fauno" (imdb link).

A fairytale for grownups. A fantasy story weaved into second world war Franco's Spain, with resistance fighting against government soldiers.

A monstrous bully of a general brings his pregnant wife and adoptive daughter out to the frontier to have his sun born "where true men live". The magic in the story starts unravelling during the very first minute of the film, so for us fantasy-buffs there is enough magic from the start to keep us interested.
However it is _rather_ gory and extremely violent, so _do not_ be tempted to let your kids watch this movie (unless they're 15 years old or so). It's quite scary, but all that is "good scary" (tolerated by me, the biggest scaredy cat ever). The only borderline thing is the violence. But then again, war is and evil people are violent. The film only illustrates it in a very natural manner.

Fairytale-fantasy = go watch! :-)

When I was 21

Today during the afternoon coffee break at work we discussed body hair and shaving (yes, I know it's weird, but we ARE a weird bunch).

I came to think of that when I was twenty one years old I had never shaved my legs.

Imagine that! What a blessed, protected and wonderfully free world I had been living in until then.
I'm pretty sure I started the underarm shaving much much earlier. But I had never really looked at my legs until that day.

I remember it like yesterday.

I was visiting a girl I used to be friends with at that time and we were sitting in her lounge watching telly and talking. At some stage my eyes fell upon her legs next to mine.
Not only were they taller, skinny and tanned - they were absolutely perfectly silky smooth! I remember looking at her legs, looking over at my legs, looking at her legs, looking back at mine, and oh-my-god-I-can't-move-what-if-she-realises-how-hairy-my-legs-are?!

Mine probably weren't too bad. Pale for sure. But I mean, the hair was still light and thinly spread. But gosh. I just wanted to cover them. I remember having issues continuing to focus on our conversation.

I was SO innocent until then. I had spent all my time in the stables. Horses don't care if you're hairy.
Had I been a different person if I never discovered that difference between my legs and other women's legs?

*sigh*

Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will sit down and experience an organisational consultant who (with a bit of luck) will help us organise our work in new and improved ways.

Wee...
*yawn*
Again an embarrassingly obvious example of whatever it is that is wrong with me. Why haven't I gone to bed to prepare for tomorrow?

Oh why?

Why am I still awake?? :-D

I had a night off work, and what do I do? Instead of kicking back in front of the telly I spend it in front of the computer... (and I washed three loads of laundry). 8-)
But believe it or not, I didn't play warcraft, I wrote down all reasons I could think of why self defence classes for girls is a good thing.

And I kept surfing the net - surfing on "self defence" brought me into a world of police bloggers:
http://blaljus.com/ and a cute/funny and interesting blog written by a police dog http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/5240/ and finally a little bit darker, but written by a dog handler/officer http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/8003/

Very interesting, and educational.

With a bit o' luck S will come home shortly and trigger my "go to bed before it's morning" impulses...
Oh dang it, I just have to log on to warcraft now that I started thinking about it...