waking up

[joanna bujes]

At 11:50 AM 07/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > The stuff in between was more interesting than your major plot line.
>
>I appreciated the stuff in between.  Guess I'm just a sucker for summaries
>(granted, they're easy enough to construct) that tell you everything yet
>reveal nothing of import.  Perhaps, as your reply suggests, they only
>demonstrate the banality of plot.
>
>- -- Luke
>
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:38:41PM -0700, Luke Weiger wrote:
> > >
> > > My friend's summary of the film: she was smart.  Then she died.

I have a major crush on Emma Thompson...so I'll see anything with her in 
it. But, I was disappointed by "Wit." It was a meandering film that wasn't 
quite sure what it was about: intelligence cannot defeat death.... 
intelligence is a kind of death.... academia is a kind of death....

The other disappointing thing was the poor use it made of Donne material. I 
was expecting a lot more use of the meditations he wrote when he was 
mortally ill...but NOT. Anyway, mostly a forgettable movie.

ON THE OTHER HAND>>> have you seen "Beijing Bicycle"??? Pretty good picture 
of contemporary China -- as a newly urbanized bicycle courrier fights over 
the tool of his trade with an aspiring but impoverished yuppie type .... 
all under the amused gaze of the up and coming capitalist class. You don't 
have to have seen "Bicycle Thief". It's in video.

Joanna