Saturday, October 27, 2001
Fun movie. An intelligent, adult movie. Good story, well-written, well acted.
Spoiler warning. Okay, you’ve been warned. ;-)
Nice thing about it is that first you are convinced that the Prot is in fact an alien (the ultraviolet thing would seem to be the clincher), but then gradually the layers are stripped away and the human inside is revealed. The story is clever in that both the alien and human stories can both be valid at the same time – story as a Schroedinger’s cat whose waveform hasn’t collapsed completely into one state or another (considering the fact that the alien travels by light-beam, the collapsed light-beam analogy was too tempting to avoid. ;-) Thoroughly enjoyable. The message: treasure what you have, which is bound to reach a sympathetic audience given the current state of things. It's not the deepest of movies, but it's not what I would call "fluff" either.
The afternoon performance I saw was packed. Sat through the usual commercials at the beginning of the movie, and unfortunately a large woman who needed a shower ended up sitting beside me. When the crazy man talks about “how everything here smells”, I couldn’t help but think how true it was at that moment. One of her friends also went “uh hunh” knowingly when something about Prot’s character was revealed. Duhhh. Oh well, the movie transported me out of the theatre for the most part. ;-)
Family Having a Blast at Jenny & Hugh’s
When I got back I found that Erika had called. So I called her at Jenny and Hugh’s place. Sounds like everyone there is having a blast. When I called Vanessa was out “putting the chickens to bed” with Jenny, Ariel and Iain. When she went to fetch eggs earlier in the day, she apparently kept asking to see “her egg”. It’s great to have friends who live on a farm. Annie travels well so she’s no problem, and Erika sound very happy to be with her friends.
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