I’ve been wanting to watch this film since it came out over 10 years ago. I have been listening to the soundtrack since then, and seen a number of Gatlif’s movies, but never this one. All I can say is, it was worth the wait!!!

Why exactly did this have an NC-17 rating? After seeing “This Film is Not Yet Rated” this movie seems like an example of what they were talking about with GLBT movies being more heavily censored than those with heterosexual sex.

The point of connecting the fantasy to the spanish civil war was to get the message across of not following someone ‘without question’. I think he did this well. It reminded me of George Miller’s ‘Babe’ and ‘Happy Feet’ in its ability to weave a complex yet imperative moral into a simple yet spellbinding story. I found this movie far less violent than something like kill bill, maybe because the story wasn’t there to make sense of the violence, but rather it was the other way around.

Finally! I’ve been meaning to see this movie forever. I thought it was good, but I haven’t really decided what I think it is telling me yet.

I finished this at 6am last night. It was set for my science studies class, and I was determined I was going to finish it. I feel like I am a slow reader and can never finish things as fast as other people, so I had a demon to slay.

The book is about the process of how global warming and its cause(s) were slowly discovered over more than a century, and then the politics of what happened once it was discovered. It is interesting both from a science/ideas point of view, and from a social issues/politics etc. point of view, both of which I am interested in.

It was a really easy read, and yet I learnt heaps, stuff that I thought I knew but realised that I was completely ignorant about, and other stuff that I hadn’t even thought about the fact that I didn’t know it because I hadn’t conceived of it.

Well worth the read, it wasn’t just a ra-ra we’re all gonna die kinda climate change book, it was really complex, without being wishy-washy.

Could somebody please explain to me what is so fantastic about this movie? (What sets it apart from all the other similar movies). Is it simply that it came first, so the ideas would have seemed more clever had we not heard them before? Did it use particular cinematographic techniques that you have to have studied film to appreciate?

I had to watch this for my class on The City. I don’t really get why it was set for that class, but I guess I’ll find out next thursday. I came up with some crazy theory about capitalism and oompa loompas, at least I will amuse the professor, even if I look nuts.

Might have been better if you could actually read the subtitles (they were virtually white on white), but then from some of the reviews I read they thought the same thing as I did without that problem. Slow, ponderous, no real point, basicially it just felt like 1 big wank, and it held so much promise with the theme.

American Beauty meets Donnie Darko with a little Death of a Salesman in between. If that doesn’t make sense to you, see the movie and it will. But in the end it doesn’t matter what movie meets what movie, it just worked, and you loved all the characters in it.

I’m not sure how this got on my should list, perhaps I put it there myself, in any case, I read half of it years ago and then life got in the way. I want to pick it back up, I just can’t decide between this and ‘In an Anqique Land’ both of which I am part way through. I hate to leave books unfinished! They haunt me to the core!

Wow, finally finished it on the G train home today. I haven’t decided what I think of it yet. It’s one of those books that deliberately makes you feel uncomfortable and not completely like the central character (or for that matter, any of the characters) to make you think. The thing is, I’m still thinking, and haven’t finished yet.