·:[ The (vast) Right Wing Conspiracy ]:·
• • • • •

Yesterday, my girlfriend Debbie and I caught Sin City at the ginormous AMC theatres at Times Square.

We loved it. Go see it.

But she and I had lots of question in the end (mainly her), including:

1. What was with the constant castration?
2. Also, what was with the constant rhetorical treatment of impotence (”Look at you old man, you can’t even lift that cannon you’re holding”)?
3. What commentary did the movie seek to add to the feasibility of self-sustained all-female communities (Old Town)? Was it a critique (note Gail’s dependence on the male-figure)?
4. Why are Asian women always depicted as femme-fatale types in film noir?
5. Who will come along first: a successful white female emcee, or a successful Asian female emcee?
6. Will the first line to make it big from a Asian female emcee be: “Looks lovely, I’m yellow and I spit pretty/Straight fire, I open my legs, Hello Kitty!”? (Asian female readers, do not kill me!)
7. What significance, if any, is given to the use of color?
8. Which scenes did Tarantino direct?
9. Is it always necessary to make the Catholic Church the root of all evil?
10. If Jessica Alba can fall in love with Bruce Willis, does that mean I have a chance?

Any thoughts?

Claudio

Karol beat me to the punch on this one…

I was going to write up a review of Sin City, which I saw last weekend, but school got in the way.

Here’s some tidbits:

- The black and white is amazing, so much so that you will want to see every movie shot in that style from now on
- The splotches of color were perfect. Perfect.
- Who doesn’t like a good revenge story? Or three?
- Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, et. al. Hot girls with guns? Just icing on the cake.

Go see it.

HELP ME!!! I have a spending problem, and I have two current objects of desire: The PSP and the 20 Gig iPod. I used to have an iPod; I had a first-gen iPod that broke, and my mother currently has the most recent generation but won’t share it with me. The iPod is the most practical purchase of the two - for me at least…but oh, the PSP…

But the iPod makes sense - I already have over ten gigs of music (2534 songs) and I am tired of carrying around a CD player with a case full of these plastic discs I’d rather play frisbee with than listen to.

Oh, iPod…

You’re all entirely wise and all-knowing: WHAT CAN I DO?!?!?!?!

Help,
Claudio

My classification of women:

Classically Beautiful

Penelope Cruz

Straight-Up Sexy

Eva Mendes

The Perfect Mix

Salma Hayek

I’m oh so philosophical. My girlfriend is gonna kill me.

Claudio

Am I the only one excited that Linklater is doing another film with the group of illustraters responsible for his masterpiece Waking Life?

Well, give me that knowledge, coupled with my excitement about reading Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly for my class on Narcotics and Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and I’m bouncing off the walls…Just check out the screen shot below, and hit this link to see the preview [Quicktime required].

Yes, that is Winona Ryder.

Claudio