Movies (and stupid flu)

Naturally I had to catch the flu right after being done with exams, so that I couldn´t do anything but go to work and rest at home. I worked every evening from Friday till Monday. Saturday night everyone else was going to all these parties (people are constantly having parties now that the semester is over!) but Carla and I decided to stay home and watch a movie. Fortunately Tim has a good selection of movies and he recommended us this one called Once Were Warriors. It was filmed in New Zealand and was really good indeed. It was disturbing, basically telling about this aboriginal family with a violent father. Watching that movie made me grateful of having such a good family! It also made me more interested in the aboriginal people. It´s unbelievable they didn´t gain the right to vote until sometimes in the late 60s! Right now news are full of aboriginal kids´ rights and the way how they´re being treated.


At work

The Sydney Film Festival was going on for the last couple of weeks here. Unfortunately I hadn´t time to go to see most of the movies because of preparing for exams. They showed movies from all over the world! Suprisingly many movies were from Russia, and from such European countries as Holland and France. None from Finland :/ Carla and I went to see an Israeli movie called Hot House on Sunday morning. The movie theather in Circular Qay was almost full already at the 10am show, so the festival must´ve been popular. Hot House was an interesting document about Israeli and Afganistan political prisoners. Since their political parties are involved in such activities as terrorist attacks, many of their leaders and candidates are in prison, where they study and educate each other. They effectively run the political system in and from prisons. The document was based on several interviews, and it seems like they´ve got such strong propaganda, views and attitutes it´s hard to see them reaching any sustainable agreements in the near future. The most shocking was when they interviewed this beautiful lady, who had planned and assisted a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Israel. They asked if she ever though of the innocent people killed there, she replied no, and when they told her 8 childen were dead she just smiled. It was hard to interpret and analyze the movie with hardly any backgroup information about the political situation in Israel, though, which reminded me of how little I generally know about what´s going on in other countries.

Yeah, so, I hated having the flu. Not feeling like doing anything, being lazy at work, not going to the gym. But I´m getting better now and had a nice day full of activities today :) I´ll write about it later, though, since I´m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open...