Archive for April 5th, 2007
Something other than German Shepherds.
If you’ve been wondering how to slap a stupid grin on my face, ask me about nursing school. Anything. Anything at all. When does it start, for example? Even questions like “how much is it going to cost?” are good questions because I am just so god damn giddy, it’s almost sick. I don’t recall being this excited to start college the first time, although I was a depressed, nasty teenager back then, so everything is a little bit of a blur, probably for my own protection. But now I’m giddy. I’m trying to treasure the moment because once I start, and I can’t spend any money, and I don’t get to hang out with my friends, and I have to study and wipe butts all day, I might not be quite so happy. But for now I am, so there. This is me, taking the feelings I have now, and putting them in a jar for use later on. Someone please remind me that I’m storing it under my kitchen sink, for when things get really bad.
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The Last Days
Rent this movie:
This is the Oscar-winning documentary from 1998. I’m trying to watch all the documentaries that have won Oscars, so I was just marking this one off my list. But I loved it. Admittedly, the Holocaust is one of my favorite topics (historically) to study, and I never get tired of reading about those events. (Sounds kind of sick and twisted, I know.) I’ve even visited two concentration camps; Auschwitz and Dachau, which were two very moving experiences. The long and short is that I just feel really passionately about that old cliche of history not repeating itself.
So, this movie follows five Hungarian Holocaust survivors during the last year of the war, which was probably the most brutal for the Jewish people; Hungary and Poland being the worst hit during those times. I don’t want to say any more, because their stories are just incredible, and it’s even more potent to hear it directly from the survivors.
Good flick. Yes.
1 comment April 5, 2007
