Knowing

I watched yesterday with astonisment a new movie- "Knowing", 2009, starring Nicholas Cage. The experience was terrifying, for the simple fact that the events described there could happen at any time, even while I'm writing this note...
The movie combines sci-fi elements with religious themes, such as the archangels that come towards the end of the movie and take away the children, only to take them to a better place...some sort of Paradise.
As shocking as I may sound, I really liked and agree with the attitude of the old man- Cage's dad in the movie, the priest- he said that this is what "God wants for us".
I recommend this movie; even though, there may be critics along the way, for me it was a bitter-sweet taste of reality. And a different face of Nicholas Cage, whose work I've admired a lot lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQE-rB3Nkh8

Daylight Friggin' Saving Time in Canada

Yesterday, I had a very unpleasant surprise (since I do not watch news but occasionally) to lose one hour of my life. Practically, some pig-headed dudes came up in 2005 with the idea to save electricity...on the account of hard-working people!Everywhere in the civilized world, the time changes with the spring equinox, which varies between 20 and 21 of March. Except for North America: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/rules/usa.htm :P They always have to be different...and not always in the good ways. The above is only one example.Why would anyone in their right mind want to move ahead with the spring schedule, if they live in Canada, where 6 months a year there is only winter??? Well, of course, to follow the "big brother" from the south. Since HE said it, it becomes a rule for Canadians, which would not say a word, as always.Hmmm...and I wondered why Canadians have been the predilection of bad jokes in US movies. Well, there's the answer! We follow, we never doubt, we never have a saying, whatever is good for the southern brother is good for us too...Dudes, get a life!I am a working citizen! I pay my taxes! I pay your bloody astronomical wages!Let me have my friggin' 1 hour more of sleep for 2 more weeks!

Oscars B.S.

Ok, people, can I finally say what every reasonable person must be thinking?!I hate the fact that lately, The Academy Awards have been transformed into some political prize, a stage that serves some frustrated individuals into coming out (of the closet...), and making their statements, most of the time political. How can we accept that?! How can movies such as SLUMDOG (FRIGGIN') MILLIONAIRE and MILK win the Oscars?!?! Did we all go mad?! Did the world turned upside down and I might be the only that did not realize this?!Why can't we recognize real talent and art when we see them? Is it because we have some distorted chip placed somewhere else instead of its natural "motherboard"- The BRAIN??? Now, let me relieve myself by writing a bit more about this "masterpiece" of cinematography...Slumdog Millionaire...1. Since when did Hollywood became Bollywood?!?!?! 2. Really artistic that moment in the movie when Jamal falls into the pitt full of S.H.I.T !!!! I guess that that might have been the real cause behind his winning the contest, and knowing all the answers...3. How can a movie that starts with violence and torture, for God sake, end with a happy Bollywood dance?!?!?!4. Do you know that the budget for this movie was under 15 million $, and up till now it has brought a gross revenue of 10 times that sum?! And for sure, it is not going to stop here...Wait till the DVD will come out- then, all the Indians (and not only...), will want to have such a "masterpiece" of a movie into their collection...so...more money for good old SAM!!! God, this recession thing is GOOOOOOOD!5. If that was not enough...just take a look at what the child actors made, in terms of money..."Child actorsAccording to the UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, Azharuddin Ismail (who played Salim as a child) was paid £1,700 and Rubina Ali (who played Latika as a child) £500 for a month’s work on the film. The child actors continue to live in makeshift shacks in the slums of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, according to the Telegraph[115] and ABC News.[116] The Telegraph also reports that Ismail's home has been demolished by the local authorities and he now sleeps under a sheet of plastic tarpaulin with his father Mohammed Ismail, who suffers from tuberculosis. A Fox Searchlight spokesman has responded that for their one-month work on the film, the child actors were paid three times the amount of an average annual salary for an adult living in their neighborhood.[115]" 6. Last but not least- the big question: HOW IS THIS MOVIE GOING TO CHANGE THE CRUEL REALITY OF LIFE IN INDIA??? How is it going to improve living conditions in the slums??? Can we laugh and dance just like those poor, poor ignorant people at the end of it? Definitely NO. We would be totally insane to do so. Because the sad truth remains...nothing changes life there. :(