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Let the right one in
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Watching Horror films, review all the available top ten lists. Some are pretty bad - as a result of one I watched "The Conjuring". Absolutely terrible. But it introduced me to the lead parapsychological investigators of the late 60's and early 70's, "Ed and Lorraine Warren", who's bio on Wiki was rather amusing.
From this to "Let the right one in" - a better quality film by far, an awful lot better thought out, some rather haunting themes, and a film that does a great job of integrating the elements of horror into day to day modern life. A lot to dwell on and consider - not, so much, horrifying, but it's there, it's there. No spoilers here.
So - one dog, one slight masterpiece, a few more to go...
The Broccoli Tree
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Hank Green does a lovely narration of "The Broccoli Tree", a modern fable about sharing the things you love.
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And a longer prose description here: http://thebroccolitree.com
Shots Fired
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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And, with interest following the story of the Alberta Farmer who shot at people on his property that were in the act of robbing him, and after slight investigation (read: Angry Farmer Confesses to shooting at thieves) the police intervene to arrest the farmer...
Uh-huh.
Now I get that the Police don't want people taking the law into their own hands. But I also get that the "Sit back and let them rob you" recommendation isn't a hell of an approach either, and given the general level of interest police show in these cases (none), given the fact that they don't even manage to recover and return even 10% of stolen property, and that's of what is reported - easily 90% of property crimes go unreported - because we're all familiar with how interested the police are in these situations - well, it seems a bit absurd to demand that he allow himself to be robbed and trust the police to solve it, return his property and bring the thieves to justice. Given, as well, the rural nature of farms, which imply even slower response times (if the police indeed bother to respond) - well...
I'm curious as to what develops here.
Packing up my University Locker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm back at University (dark, dimly lit, rows of lockers, bathrooms, swimming pools hidden behind locker rooms and closed doors, an imaginary place in my dream with no real world equivalent) - with my son, he's helping me to clean up some things that I've forgotten here, and we're going to all the places I used to hang out, to the lockers, and there are papers and notebooks here, and into the parkade/student dormitory, and ask the students and get more papers, and from place to place (always inside, underground, dark) we're going and collecting my possessions, long overdue this, and all of my possessions seem to comprise only notebooks and papers...
...behind a couple of old wood doors there's a locker room, and through this a darkly lit swimming pool...
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