Wouldn’t it be nice to know who has or has had a crush on you?
E.g. find * where crush(*, dominik) is true.
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Dearest
I know you
wait for me
as I wait for you
I pray only
that God hasten
the hour of
our meeting
so my heart
longs for yours
so my eyes
long for yours
so my arms long
to hold you close
forever
and beyond
An amazing film… dealing — and not necessarily resolving — with many difficult issues. A true masterpiece from Clint Eastwood. The plot centers around a female boxer who walks into a professional trainer’s gym and asks, repeatedly, for him to train her. His initial reply is that he doesn’t train girls, but over time his resolve begins to waver and at the urging of his second, masterfully played by Morgan Freeman, he finally gives in. The film then goes off on a tale of her ascent in the boxing world and her continued training. Well worth seeing if you haven’t, and I must say this is not your typical ‘hero epic’… but rather a quietly, subdued thought-provoking film. The ending is rather ambiguous, most probably intentionally so, but I can’t really say more lest I give it away. I can’t say I agree with Clint’s decision, and there are several gaping plot holes at the end (not to mention plausibility and various legal oversights), but overall…
A film that left me touched, moved and grateful.
For my thoughts on the ending, click Read More… (warning: spoiler):
The main problem is that assisted suicide is murder — and furthermore, Maggie asking Frankie to help her was entirely and completely unnecessary. There are already laws that state if someone is on an artificial ventrilator they can ask to have it turned off and it will be. Morally (from a Catholic perspective) I am unsure of whether such a thing is moral, but nowhere does God ask us to grip life with both hands — and if technology is the only thing keeping us alive… I’ll have to ask a priest about it. In any case, what Frankie did at the end of the film was wrong. Maggie — by current laws — only needed to ask to turn off the vent and she would have passed away quietly. Finally there’s the point about realism; is it really plausible that there’s no video camera, no security and no authentication mechanism in place so that Frankie can walk in and just kill Maggie without anyone noticing? In any case the end of the movie is ambiguous, which lets me believe that the priest’s words to Frankie eventually became true… though the priest is wrong there, as there is only one unforgivable sin — that of believing that one’s sins are unforgivable.
For an enlightening alternative perspective on this film, see this link:
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/reviews/drakemillionbaby.html
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My laptop, Eiline, died :( Her logic board failed.
Took it in the Apple Store, have to ship it back and wait ~10 days for them to fix it :(
In other news Starbucks now sells drinkable chocolate. Fond memories of Paris came back to me as I drank a cup :)
jan 13 already
iap is merrily rolling along — a good time it has been thus far.
boston weather is white and cold… thank god for techshuttle
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some musings for you :)
I often find myself in the ‘older brother’ situation with female friends (even though i’m an only child) — listening to their tales of travails and comforting them… I still don’t understand why so many girls go for bad guys all the time :P That said, I personally don’t see much point in dating and I know at 21 I’m nowhere near ready for marriage… and thus I remain single. Patience is a virtue, I figure.
The girls I’ve been attracted to have been ones that were intellectual and tomboyish to an extent that they weren’t overly girly (no make-up day-to-day) but _could_, when they wanted, go all-out and look absolutely stunning and beautiful and do it naturally, if that makes sense. Most of my female friends are like that as well… I tend to see girls as fellow humans first, and female second…
I figure things will sort themselves out as I get older, since I’m looking for one relationship that works for life, not a bunch of little flings that only leave sorrowful heartbreak and misty memories.
