My mother is celebrating a birthday -- her 64th -- tonight, so for the moment I only have time to type this. I'll be back later to see what my friends are up to and maybe do an O/T for the depression board.
Over the last couple of days I did my special project for my Western Civilization class. It was special because I got to choose from four, as did everyone else. One was to watch a pair of movies: Master and Commander and Schindler's List. My parents already own the former of those two, and I could rent the latter cheaply if I needed to, so that's the option I took even though I am not a movie person by confession.
Master and Commander was actually pretty good. It's PG-13, which helped (for me), and there was only one really bad scene -- the surgery one -- where I just had to put my hand up to block the screen. Later I found out my parents didn't like that scene either. Taken in the context of the Napoleonic Wars unit we talked about this week, it actually felt pretty relevant to me.
I made it through Schindler's List with enough notes to finish typing my project tomorrow, but I have to tell you people...if you are thinking of seeing it by some means, please be aware that it's going to drive a lump in your throat. It's very dark, very nasty at times. I think what saved me was that the film was released in 1993, just before violent material was really starting to be glorified in the mass media (not that there weren't such beasts before then, I remember watching Lionheart as a teenager and never wanting to see it again). Frankly, I was expecting more bloody scenes than there were.
So I guess I got away with one this time. Every once in a while, the Journeyman Project gets lucky.
Over the last couple of days I did my special project for my Western Civilization class. It was special because I got to choose from four, as did everyone else. One was to watch a pair of movies: Master and Commander and Schindler's List. My parents already own the former of those two, and I could rent the latter cheaply if I needed to, so that's the option I took even though I am not a movie person by confession.
Master and Commander was actually pretty good. It's PG-13, which helped (for me), and there was only one really bad scene -- the surgery one -- where I just had to put my hand up to block the screen. Later I found out my parents didn't like that scene either. Taken in the context of the Napoleonic Wars unit we talked about this week, it actually felt pretty relevant to me.
I made it through Schindler's List with enough notes to finish typing my project tomorrow, but I have to tell you people...if you are thinking of seeing it by some means, please be aware that it's going to drive a lump in your throat. It's very dark, very nasty at times. I think what saved me was that the film was released in 1993, just before violent material was really starting to be glorified in the mass media (not that there weren't such beasts before then, I remember watching Lionheart as a teenager and never wanting to see it again). Frankly, I was expecting more bloody scenes than there were.
So I guess I got away with one this time. Every once in a while, the Journeyman Project gets lucky.
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