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Books & Babel (spoilers)
Mar. 4th, 2007 01:23 pmLast night was dinner and a DVD night. Dinner was okay, the DVD of choice was one I brought over via Netflix -- Babel. Very good movie, loved the way the threads tied together. Six degrees of separation and "a butterfly flutters its wings off the coast of Borneo causing a hurricane in the Caribbean" and how things snowball and all that. There's some amazing acting going on.
SPOILER: The thing I found most disturbing was the casualness with which the boys handled the rifle. As someone who had a hunter safety class in 6th grade (before sex ed -- because guns are more dangerous than curious 12 yo's are?), it was appalling. You never, ever aim a gun without seriously considering what you are targeting. Guns aren't toys or jokes or playthings. And that message was clear in the movie -- the gun wasn't bought as a toy but as a means of protecting the family's livelihood. But I'm guessing that was the director's intent -- to disturb.
On the book front, I went to Borders to see if I could score an early copy of Ward's Lover Revealed. Nope. But they had already shelved several books with the same street date -- Alyssa Day's Atlantis Rising, Lora Leigh's Nauti Boy, Singh's Visions of Heat, the Demon's Delight anthology. I'm wondering why some of the books due out on Tuesday were shelved but not others. No one at the help desk could give me an answer.
Just as well. I don't need any new books. Do I? ;)
SPOILER: The thing I found most disturbing was the casualness with which the boys handled the rifle. As someone who had a hunter safety class in 6th grade (before sex ed -- because guns are more dangerous than curious 12 yo's are?), it was appalling. You never, ever aim a gun without seriously considering what you are targeting. Guns aren't toys or jokes or playthings. And that message was clear in the movie -- the gun wasn't bought as a toy but as a means of protecting the family's livelihood. But I'm guessing that was the director's intent -- to disturb.
On the book front, I went to Borders to see if I could score an early copy of Ward's Lover Revealed. Nope. But they had already shelved several books with the same street date -- Alyssa Day's Atlantis Rising, Lora Leigh's Nauti Boy, Singh's Visions of Heat, the Demon's Delight anthology. I'm wondering why some of the books due out on Tuesday were shelved but not others. No one at the help desk could give me an answer.
Just as well. I don't need any new books. Do I? ;)
