Ratatouille, Flicka, Little Mermaid, and High School Musical

This past friday I saw Ratatouille. Pixar did pretty well; their short intro clip entitled "Lifted" was funny as well. They've stumbled upon a good thing. The whole concept of a mini clip before the movie makes it feel as though you're getting way more for your money, the allusion of quality is created and somehow segued into the main film. Good job Pixar. One thing I thought interesting though is there seems to be a plethora films coming out lately with this "you're right, your father is wrong, therefore do what you need to to feel happy" theme. Did someone out there have a bad relationship with their father?! Most of the movies are for children, but that makes them all the more damaging which will mostly likely result in causing the already fragile family structure in America to become even more unstable.


Flicka is a main one that comes to mind. In this film, if you can call it that, the father is completely unreasonable to the point of absurdity, his daughter played by Alison Lohman, the girl in Matchstickmen and White Oleander is this total angel who's done absolutely nothing to elicit this amazingly unjust behavior except having the strong desire to be herself. And going back a few years, ok a lot of years, there comes the


Little Mirmaid in which film Aerial's father is out to keep her strapped down for life, depriving her from being "up where they talk, up where they walk, up where they stay all day in the sun," where she's wishing she could just be "part of their world." etc. Poor Aerial, (whose name by the way happens to be the same word used for describing the part of a plant which grows above the ground, like when the roots are showing above ground etc....that was no mistake.) Oh and then coming back to the present there's Highschool Musical, a movie wherein both main characters go against their parents wishes and join a musical. Not to mention almost every single boy, including the main guy, Troy Bolton but more overtly in the character of Ryan Evans, acts unusually feminine.
(Heh, ok that's not Ryan Evans in the picture, but seriously just watch the movie and by the end you'll completely agree with me, or your money back.)

Hum...it seems as though H.G. Wells' picture of the future was not far from the truth in his book Time Machine.

Past Three Days

Today we celebrated Mary's birthday at Bubba Gumps. The restaurant was good, although they messed up Ruth's order and she didn't get her food till we were almost done with our meal. I got a free umbrella though. It's huge. I love big umbrellas. On Friday I saw Harry Potter - I forget what this one was called, the fifth one in the series I think. It was good, for someone who has not read the book I was still entertained and could understand the story plot so that's a plus. The spells were a bit cheesy though. I mean they say a word and wiggle this dorky wand and a huge spell comes out, how is that difficult? heh this one guy couldn't do it properly because he wasn't flicking his wrist correctly. Silly. But I guess the main thing was meant to be mental, one's mental concentration...something along those lines and that can be hard to control I guess. There were many allusions also, and as a Christian I found them quite interesting, although I won't expound on them. On the way back I realized I locked my keys in my car. We asked the guards to break in...They couldn't, even though they tried for half an hour. Somewhat comforting to know they can't break in, but also annoying because my sister then had to drive to Eastwood and bring me another key. Also there are many people back in my island who are completely messing up my daily routine and causing me to be somewhat melancholy. They’re just going to leave so it's kind of hard to become friends with them again in just a few weeks only to say goodbye to them. I'm in this middle place where people come to visit and then leave again. It’s annoying, no closure; a wood between the worlds.