While Reuby chose to sleep the chilly hours away, I preferred to curl up next to the radiator and watch movies that I had previously downloaded on Vuze. I still have a few, such as A Bout de Souffle and The Breakfast Club, which I might watch soon, along with a couple of horror flicks (Halloween, Drag Me to Hell) and movies that require some thinking (e.g. Angels and Demons, Valkyrie, Schindler's List).

But anyway, Blue Velvet was my first movie and I found it unsettling. It was all right for a movie, but I wouldn't say I liked it. Pretty much teetering on the 'neutral-dislike' margin. >.>

The Pianist, though, was tragic. It is based on a memoir written by a Polish musician of Jewish origins, Władysław Szpilman. It should have been included in the list, but it wasn't and that alone made me sad. LOL. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie, and it sort of reminded me of the horrors I saw in Auschwitz when I paid the place a visit. It told of the cruelty (and kindness) of the German soldiers, the racism and fear shown by the non-Jews, all that in addition to the suffering of the Jews and what they had to go through to survive. It was truly heart-wrenching. A must for movie fanatics.

Having watched the film, I'm itching to get my hands on the memoir and read it. :P


-Lissa-