Today’s movies. The first was Blue Gold, World Water Wars. It was interesting enough but slow. Another movie about how corporations are screwing the little people. The problem with watching all these movies is that I am like, right right, corporations are screwing us, what’s next?
Kurt Cobain: About a Son. I don’t know why it is called about a son. It is just pictures of things over his voice. It’s a little boring as there is no narration. It does make me wistful for the West side of the country…I miss the little logging towns, and Olympia. It is so funny to me to hear Kurt Cobain talking about how all he ever wanted to do was move to Seattle, which is exactly how I felt for most of my growing up years. It’s so sad to hear his voice, he references wanting to kill himself so many times, “blowing my head off”. It’s so sad to think that he did. Cobain was our Lennon…those of us that hung on the edges of the punk rock universe on the West Coast. I remember the day he died; so many people in Seattle were so upset. Anyway this movie is not very good, it needs narration because just listening to half of an interview while seeing pictures of Washington is nice, but not entertaining. Although, the pictures of Broadway are making me want to quit my job and run, as they pan past a place that I have memories of. Sigh, it’s funny how a picture of a stairwell can bring me back.
As the Call, So the Echo is about a doctor who donates a bunch of ENT equipment to a hospital in Viet Nam, and then goes to help out for a period of time. It is sad to see how many people in VN are really only ill because they don’t have maintenance care. One man has a giant tumor on his eye, and if he would have gotten it looked at early it wouldn’t have caused him so much pain. There is also a woman who has a tumor in her skull that is so huge that it has caused her to have paralysis in her face. So many people do not have a place to find drinking water, or homes with a fan to keep the smoke out. So many of these docs showcase sad places in the world that tomorrow I am looking for fun docs. I could so not be a doctor; I am not patient or careful enough. So now we know no medical school for me.
The last of the day is Law and Order LA. It’s a great doc, very realistic. I only had 50 min left and so starting a new movie didn’t sound great, but starting a L&O is wonderful! Bomp bomp
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