Movies: March 2008 Archives

Fitna the movie is out on YouTube now. I watched it. As a movie it wasn't that great. it cherry picks some hateful speech and juxtaposes it with violent images. I'm not sure it deserves the press it is getting. I suppose the editing is ok and it's always nice to see ideas "hoisted by their own petard."

The reaction it is getting in certain parts of the world is the predictable condemnation, followed by governments wringing their hands wishing their citizens wouldn't get the thin-skinned folks hopped up again. I've seen this news cycle before, I'm sure I'll see it again.

Kudos to google/youtube for keeping the video up all weekend. I'm sure it's been up on the servers long enough for them to have received numerous threats.

Three years later you run into the same movie on an unexpected night and you wonder will it be the same — will you love it as much as the first time. The movie, “Lost in Translation” still works for me. I’m not sure I’ll feel the same way when I see Juno three years from now.