Day: January 28, 2004

Got out to see In America last week, and I’m glad we did. The decision was made as much by an inability to agree on anything else as a positive expectation about the film, but we were (unjustly?) rewarded all the same.

Very, very brief scene setting/plot summary: Irish parents with two young girls moves to modern-day New York City, illegally, and move into a tenement, the only apartment they can afford. Life proceeds from there, with a few colorful incidents, but mostly just family dynamics. This is a family struggling with past, present, and future, but also finding occasional joy in the small moments. It’s not light-hearted, but it’s about as real as a movie can be without being, well, real life (which isn’t that dramatic in two hours, most of the time).

I will admit that I felt a horrible sense of foreboding through most of the film. Something bad was going to happen. I was sure of it. Well, while it’s not a 100% Hollywood wrap-up ending, I was quite misled, to my relief. I’m more emotional all the time. I blame my kids. 😉

Note: All Flash movie site. Bah. But, they link to an external site for reviews, which shows some honesty.

Over the weekend, the boy delivered a classic line, although he didn’t know it. The girl was in a dress, which is rare enough since she’s seven months old. The red dress has a belt which is knotted in the back (aka, a bow). The boy asks “Why is she tied up in a dress?” I couldn’t really answer that one then. Or now.

Again, from Macintouch, more ideas/tips about Mail.app problems. New idea: “… I traced the problem down to a malformed HTML-based message that had no subject line.” I’ve seen some of those, but had not connected the crashes to an individual type of email. Hmmm… I’ll keep an eye out.