Thursday, January 15, 2009

Foreign Film

I have officially gone off the deep end!
This semester I decided to take the heaviest course load that I have ever attempted (not that it would be a crazy venture in and of itself); but I am taking 2 heavy spanish classes (Span 339 and Span 355) both of them have a lot of out of class learning, which is cool, but stressful on an already tight schedule...
I have enjoyed the films though, I went to see El Orfenato (the orfanage) over the weekend(a movie from Spain), it was a really good scary movie (quite psychological) about a lady having converted the orfanage that she lived in as a child into her house and then loosing her son... very 6th sense-esque... very cool.
Yesterday, I went to see a Cuban comedy called Las Doce Sillas; to tell the truth I didn't find it extremely funny, but it was interesting to see the propaganda delivered in the post-socialism film... I almost didn't like it, but thinking about it it was really quite good. (just one of those things that you don't get at the time...)
anyways, that's what is up right now

5 comments:

  1. Just think of it this way. You are becoming more cultured! ;D

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  2. And, surprisingly enough, the Spain-Spanish wasn't as thick-accented as I thought it was going to be. Well, except for the little boy. I was grateful there were subtitles for him. :D

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  3. oh, the one last night was much worse... cuban spanish is just crazy annoying.

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  4. Wasn't it also an older film? Like, before they started finding actors that had a general accentry? (Does that even make sense?)

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  5. Cuban Spanish is really weird! But fun!

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