It was saturday afternoon and had finished preparing chili beans for supper then I decided to call my sister if she wants to watch a movie at the cinema. I want to view the film "The Social Network" to find out what is all about. What makes it so controversial not because it was a story of Facebook and the founder of FB - Mark Zuckerberg. But then my sister is kind of busy I think and she wants to watch something else. I just let her go besides it's already time for them to attend mass. Although I had a chance to tell her that I will watch the movie "Awake" with Chris Hayden and Jessica Alba. She said she already watched that movie thr. DVD. She was quick to tell me the story and the ending. Yes the ending---- now do I have to watch it ? Maybe not! Besides you know what it was supposedly slated for 9:00 pm last nite and instead they featured another movie "The Return."
Anyway, I changed channels my remote control is such a pest for I need to have the other control device for its volume. The other main control is only for channels and other buttons for the rest of the main functions for TV, DVD and other related important features for the television set except for the volume or sound. Peste di ba? They should invent something that all the components should be in just ONE DEVICE. I get pissed when the other remote control is out of sight. Why I have to keep hold of the sound or volume control is because every channels has different sound limit. Then two or four of the channels have no sound at all. I just couldn't believe it. Unlike when we have the old televisions we had before wherein one remote control and all the functions are controlled by just ONE gadget. Ah totally weird.
Since I was finished with my household chores for the nite and I was starting on my next "story or novel" confined myself in my room and start writing. There are some buggers who keep phoning, I mean calling looking for L. Changed channels once again. There are too many movies to choose from: The 40 Year Old Virgin was on starring Steve Carell (of the TV show "The Office) then the movie about bomb disposal experts in the film "The Hurt Locker." I was just playing with the back and forth changing channels when its time for commercials. Actually I didn't finish watching those movies. THe 40 Year Old Virgin is funny but there are characters there who are not pleasing to look at. I mean TH eh. Few of them are not really comedian. Then the Hurt Locker, the film that made it to the Oscar and the director had received an award, remember that? It was a movie in a war torn country where there are so many disagreements and miscommunications and I just decline to watch it. I hate the explosion. It's like a movie of testing the military how courageous they are leaving them like a toysoldier at the whim of those who ordered them. Very inhuman. Not good. You don't wanna see that movie. Very disturbing. No one can argue how devastating war is and how the soldiers can keep up with their sanity? Just the explosions can shake your whole psyche. No one can sleep with those kind of trauma. Maawa ka lang. Makokonsensya ka bakit ba may giyera at puede mo ring itanong kung bakit yung nag order ng giyera ay dapat sya ang nandoon to fight. Oh hindeee! Naku parang Ben David ah.
Late at nite, when we had this old movie, actually made in 1991 "At Play In The Fields of the Lord." The movie is based on the life of missionaries as they struggle to devote their teachings to the native Indians in the Amazon jungle. One of the many movies of John Lithgow, famous for his portrayal as the cruel villain in the movie " Cliffhanger" with Sylvester Stallone. Also famous for being Dick Solomon in the hit TV series "Third Rock From The Sun." I like that comedy TV series dunno why they canned that hilarious show. Better than Seinfeld I might tell you...for sure. Hehehe.
While my daughter watched not the entire movie because she found those bold and naked people ---"CREEPY." Ahahahahh.
Then when I said that John L. is a look-alike of her Dad she was laughing so hard. Eh, kamukha nga ni L. What can you do? twin siguro nya. He was seen taking the statue of the Virgin Mary away from the native and instead giving her the bolo (big knife). Also one of the missionaries gave the indian a bolo as a gift. You may ask why for heaven sake you have to give a stranger a knife--- for what? Gift? Really is questionable. Don't you have other gifts to give? Strange as it may sound it's like you want them to kill you. Now let's have more rational idea, the actors gave the bolo for them to use instead of arrow. Yeah that way it symbolized something more relevant for their cause.
The movie is something I cannot consider bad, they are all good actors and actresses. The story is great! The ending is deserving. The story depicted true encounter I think with the Indians for it is more like "documentary." Probably is a true story. This is what happened when the problem is LANGUAGE, CULTURE, and RELIGION obviously there is always a clash.
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