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Bizarre spam
I got this surreal spam message:
of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother To that I owed my stalking by the Leopard-man, on the night of my arrival.
There was a HTML part, which probably had something less absurd, but this part was all I saw with my pine. The first line is from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the second line is from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells.
Talk about bizarre!
10.10.2003 klo 17:00
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Dogville
We went to see Dogville, the latest movie from Lars von Trier on Saturday. I've been hugely impressed by just about everything von Trier has made and Dogville was no exception.
The most interesting part of it is the way it's done. Von Trier seems to love tricks. This time the catch was the location. Instead of finding a suitable town, he drew it. He got a huge warehouse, where he drew the outlines of the town. There's an outline of a strange blob on the ground and an explanation "Gooseberry bushes". Neat.
Actually, it worked really well. There were enough props to make it believable. Everything there was was used at some time during the movie. The rest of it - the unnecessary bits - were left out. It was very strange, but I got used to it soon. At the same time it help to generalize the events - this could've happened anywhere.
The movie was, indeed, about the human nature. How does a town react, when a strange and perhaps dangerous woman appears? How did they accept her? What were the conditions? It ended up pretty ugly, but that's to be expected from the torturer of innocent women (see Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark for other examples). The ending left me satisfied, but ashamed of being satisfied at such ending.
It was an unpleasant movie, but in a purifying sense.
6.10.2003 klo 10:40
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