Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:51 am
I watched a movie called What the Deaf Man Heard, which is about a boy who gets on a bus with his mother, but then his mother gets kidnapped (it's intimated that she gets raped and killed, but since it's a PG movie they didn't say that outright) and he's all alone when he gets to the last bus stop. The last thing his mother had told him was, "Not another word out of you," so he doesn't say anything to anyone, and they think he's deaf. He plays along, and lives there at the bus stop till he's an adult - all the while being thought of as deaf, when he can hear every word that's being said. It was rather an interesting premise, if a bit cheesy when executed, and there was kind of an air of laughing at Christians throughout the movie. I half-liked it.
I also saw What Dreams May Come, starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding, Jr. It's about a man who dies, and his forays through the afterlife. Needless to say, very surreal and at times very weird. Kind of New Age-y too, because there was reincarnation involved. Kind of nice all the same.
You can find out things about the past that you never knew. And from what you've learned, you may see some things differently in the present. You're the one that changes. Not the past.
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the
truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is
supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine