A good night's sleep

SLC

Today we're only catching one screening for which we already have tickets, which of course means that I was able to sleep in until 10:30a, thus getting over ten hours of much needed sleep. Currently we're waiting in the Broadway theater for a screening of Welcome Europa.

Blame It On Fidel, the film we saw last night, was really pretty good. The story follows Anna, a young girl who's parents are political activists in France. They try very hard to teach Anna the importance of standing up for one's beliefs, showing group solidarity (ie protesting) and for speaking out against evils in the world. Unfortunately, Anna doesn't quite understand the contextual importance of these lessons and applies them incorrectly to her daily life. She attempts to show group solidarity at school and otherwise applies the concepts of political activism to things to which they were never meant to be applied. The result is an intriguing and very funny film that seeks to show how personality and social interaction are influenced by the world around us. Worth checking out.