Oooh, Look! A Bunny!

So I'm sure everyone has seen those t-shirts that read "I'm not ADD its just that...Oh look! A bunny!" Well, I need one of those...for everyday of the week.

This post was supposed to be about D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. And I promise I'll get there soon enough. However, I wanted to write a few words about a couple of movies that I've watched since the last post.

The first movie, "Idiocracy", is a nice little lagniappe. It was written and directed by Mike Judge of "Office Space" and "Beavis and Butthead" fame. I recently re-watched this movie because my fiance didn't think that it could possibly be a good movie despite my claims to the contrary.

Score 1 for me! This movie is hilarious. Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) is frozen as part of a government program. He is only supposed to be frozen for a year. However, the top secret program is forgotten about in the wake of a scandal and Bauers wakes up not one, but 500 years later.

He discovers that the world has become a significantly dumber place. The movie is sharp social commentary masked as low-brow humor. The narrator notes in voice over that the survival of the fittest, doesn't apply to humans. Evolution favors those who reproduce the most.

Which is true, actually. Any casual observation of daytime talk shows could easily lead you to that conclusion. Smart people have a kid, maybe two. Then there's the people on Maury fighting about who is and is not "the father". These scuzzy men denying their children usually already have four or five other kids they won't support by four or five other women they refer to in very derogatory language.

As for the women, how is it that they can have so many partners that five different men could be possible 'baby's daddies"? I haven't met four or five men in my entire life that I would want to have children with, much less four or five in a few weeks!

Other valid points: The entertainment industry will soon consist only of fart jokes
And advertisers are taking over the world.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

The other movie, and I'll be brief here because it is a British film,is called Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.

Based on the novel of the same name and directed by Karel Reisz, this film stars Albert Finney and Norman Rossington(Rossington played Norm in A Hard Day's Night) as two English factory workers who are dissatisfied with their working class lives. It starts with the famous line, "Don't let the bastards grind you down." Right on, man!

It is really a great example of the film type associated with British New Wave, kitchen sink realism, and the Angry Young Men movement.

I watched it in order to write a paper about it and may come back to it later. It really is one of the films that YOU just HAVE to see.