10:21 p.m. - Friday, Dec. 12, 2003
A Real Matt Movie!
Today I saw "Stuck On You" (SOY) at the Imax theatre at Opryland Mills. That is one huge place. There weren't too many people there at that time which was about 12:45 pm. I loved this movie! Well, I guess I would have loved anything at all that has Matt Damon in it, hahaha. But this was a pretty good movie. The only thing that I didn't like too much was the haircut Matt had. I think he looks much better, more attractive, without bangs.
I read somewhere on the Internet that some vocal groups for handicapped people. have already been complainin' about SOY. I'm handicapped and I saw nothin' wrong with the way the movie was handled. I beg their pardon, but the movie was not insensitive to handicapped people. It did show many of the problems that handicapped people face and it showed how Bob and Walt Tennor (Matt and Greg Kinnear) dealt with those problems. I thought the movie was educational and helpful.
In one scene, Bob and Walt are short order cooks in Bob's restaurant, called "The Quickee Burger". They had cooking as a team down to a science which was wonderful to behold (lol). Then a customer became ticked off because a mentally challenged man, working in the restaurant as a waiter, got his order mixed up. The customer sounded off demanding to see the owner. Then when he was taken to the opening behind which Bob and Walt were standing as they cooked, the man demanded to know why Bob had a freak in his restaurant.
Instead of yelling back at the man, Bob told the customer that he didn't realize that any freaks were there until now. Then he and Walt came into the restaurant so that the man could see that they were conjoined. When the man called Bob and Walt sideshow freaks all the customers stood up as if ready to pounce on the man. Bob then told the mentally challenged waiter to throw the "freak" out and pointed to the irate customer. I thought that was an interestin' scene.
The show was very funny and had an unexpected ending which, to me, really made the show fantastic. I hope that if you get to see "Stuck On You" that you will do so. It is worth seeing.
I am readin' a new ebook entitled: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, an English writer. Here is a synopsis of what the book is about:
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
I didn't write the synopsis, of course. I copied it, lol. It was a lot easier than tryin' to explain it in my own words, especially since I've only just begun readin' it. The book is highly interestin' and I'm learnin' about prime numbers, lol, something I've heard of but never knew much about. It's written from the perspective of an autistic teenager. Very different from anything I've read so far.
Oh yes! I have begun using "Incredimail" with Yahoo as my pop 3 mail server. I now have some Matt Damon stationery. It's got a cartoon drawing of Matt (see below) that someone made and it's centered at the top of the page with the words: "Will you be my Sweetie?" printed in a rainbow fashion arching over his head. It is so cute.
The weather here is calling for snow showers on Sunday. Yeah, this is about the time last year that snow began fallin' and didn't know when to quit until April. This does not sound good to me. *shakes head sadly* Here we go again, folks. *sigh*
