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Movie Meme
By Keith R | March 10, 2007
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My blogfriend Ricardo and fellow member of the Latin American Blogroll (see righthand column) tagged me for the blog meme about how our favorite movies did on Oscar night. I had intended to beg off… as I keep protesting (pay attention, Katia!), The Temas Blog is supposed to be about the issues, not me and my personal tastes. But since it’s Ricardo asking…
This particular meme is especially difficult for me. I love movies, but for one reason or another, in the past year or so I have seen very few first-release movies. And very few of those were nominated for Oscars — not even for sound editing or best catering while filming! Thus I have yet to see “The Departed,” “Babel,” “In Pursuit of Happiness,” “The Last King of Scotland,” or “Notes on a Scandal.” My wife and I very much want to see “The Queen” and “In Pursuit of Happiness,” and my son and I want to see “Letters from Iwo Jima,” but looks like we’ll have to catch those on DVD…
I did manage to see “United 93” and “The Good Shepard,” both nominated, but while I enjoyed them both, I would categorize neither as a “favorite.”
I loved the “The Prestige,” nominated for cinematography and art direction but did not win either category. This is a movie I can enjoy seeing multiple times. It is engrossing and keeps you guessing until the very end, and I am certain that when I see it again on DVD there will be many, many things I spot the second time that I did not catch the first go-round.
My only favorite movie that won an award is in keeping with the environmental themes of this blog: “An Inconvenient Truth.” This came out in 2006 just a few weeks before my birthday, and when my family asked how I wanted to spend my birthday evening, I said let’s all go to that movie as a family. I had heard good things about from friends, and wanted my teenagers to fully understand global climate change, the unhappy legacy my generation may be leaving them and the need for them to contemplate what they can do about it.
The movie blew us four away; in fact, the packed theater (I have never seen a large theater packed for a documentary!) was abuzz after that movie and many applauded.
I recommended it to all my friends and family, even my conservative parents. One Goldwater Republican in the family, despite his distrust of environmentalists and strong dislike of Al Gore, emerged from that movie no longer questioning the phenomenon of global climate change and a human role in it. That, my friends, is a revolution in and of itself!
I have heard that the movie is packing theaters in LAC, considered unusual there too. And reportedly it has also impressed many there. Come to think of it, maybe that has something to do with the surprising public attitudes on climate change we see in the recent ACNeilsen survey!
I also wish to second my blogfriend Leila‘s recommendation to view the short documentary “Recycled Life.” While not a “favorite” per se and it didn’t win an Oscar, it will open your eyes on some of the waste/recycling issues I discuss here on The Temas Blog. It’s the story of the pepenadores (waste pickers) who work a dump in Central America as a matter of survival.
And as a closing note, let me recommend a fascinating environment-themed 2006 documentary not nominated for Oscar but nonetheless engrossing, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” The movie left me with a lot of questions and wanting to know more (mark of a good documentary?). I also liked how they showed that there was blame aplenty for everyone, including consumers, as to why the EV1 did not make it in the marketplace.
Tags: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, cambio climático, catadores, Climate Change, electric car, EV1, filmes, movies, mudanças climáticas, películas, pepenadores, Recycled Life, Who Killed the Electric Car?
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