Cidade de Deus
I just saw City of God. It's a movie telling the story of a slum in Rio de Janeiro, along with its occupants. It was excellent; very well done. Apparently the actors were all just people (kids mostly) who live in Rio, in situations similar to what is depicted. It's so easy to just forget that anything exists other then our cushy white-bread first world lives. Go see this movie for a reminder of what else is actually our there. It's playing at Cinema du Parc and prolly in some other theaters as well. Viewers beware: violence plays a central role.Also, here's a funny quote from a silly article about trying to get the lowest SAT score possible:
If you are a high school student, please, for love of "The Man" and his "System",
DON'T do anything described in this article! Over the years you will discover
that meaning in life is derived from being very employed and consuming as much
as you can on weekends and your ten paid holidays. Doing poorly on the SAT
jeopardizes your proper placement as a cog in the machine. The Man has many
glorious gifts stored up for you in the System, and he desperately wants to
give them to you, but when you stop conforming, The Man feels great sorrow,
and may even have to punish you... I shouldn't even be telling you these
things, young Consumer. Just... No, that's all I'm saying. Okay, that's...
Just, okay?, just leave. I don't want any trouble. I love the System! All
hail the System! (Breaking in to song:) Work, work, work, work, work,
consume, consume! Work, work, work, work, work, consume, consume!
(Repeat phrase 50 more times, and the System song begins again.)
| Posted by dustin on May 12, 2003 with category tags of Weblog |
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