Wednesday, February 22, 2012

random thoughts

I'm pretty sure I'm going to write my final paper for my film class on Ingmar Bergman. I'm working on a more coherent thesis, but I want to basically tie together the theme of repentance and silence, which goes into the lack of God (or perhaps silence from God) in several of his films.

Dan and I went and saw the Oscar Short Films at Kahala Theatre. I wasn't really into any of the live action shorts (except Time Freak, which has this trailer but it's really like only 5 minutes long).



The animated shorts were pretty alright. I really liked this one called Dimache/Sunday. It was about a young boy and his visits to his Grandmother's house on Sundays after church and sort of the world he sees. I really liked the animation in this the most; the other films seemed to all be computer rendered and this felt really authentic.



My neighbor grows a ton of cacti. They're are probably over a dozen types all around his house, decorating the walls. He spends a ton of time taking care of them. Kind of wonder what'll happen to them when he (eventually) dies.




Friday, February 10, 2012