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Melody

Melody

It's been in the back of my mind for... two decades...

As movies go, it had the same impact on me as Star Wars did. But while Star Wars had me dreaming about the future; this movie... well... It had me dreamin' about love. The movie is about two kids fall in love and decide to get married and be happy. But when they tell their parents they are told it's not possible. While at the school the teachers dissuade them and the classmates mock them.

But there was a problem. As the old nighttime movie shows began disappearing and the old movies began to be replaced by newer and newer "blockbuster" films, so too I forgot more and more about the film. Although I didn't forget it completely, it sort of became a mystery movie. An unknown. Unattainable.

Or so I thought. The Internet Provides Everything© and finding out the title of the movie, and even the movie itself was one good suggestion and a couple of clicks away.

It was gabopagan who suggested a similar movie on IMDB. It wasn't the one he mentioned. But I decided try to and ask on the IMDB forums. Practically no time later, I got a solid description of a movie that was similar to what I remembered. With a title, it got ridiculously easy to find and even watch the movie online.

It's on Google Video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3578692700171397566

It was real magic, seeing the movie again. It's too bad the movie is not available on DVD in North America. The reason? Copyright, lawyers and greed. Obviously, the copyright holders are oblivious to the anarchist undertones in this children's movie for adults. Or the fact that it is available on the Internet...

The information soldier fights for love...

Jessica Alba Loves Linux

This is a screencap from Jessica Alba's New Movie Good Luck Chuck

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Friendship


Forrest: Hey, Bubba... Bubba: Hey, Forrest. Forrest, why'd this happen? Forrest: You got shot. Forrest: (voice-over) Then Bubba said something I won't even forget. Bubba: I wanna go home. Forrest: Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam.

Forrest Gump went home and became captain of a shrimpin' boat. It was then that, without thinking it, Forrest Gump did the best thing a friend can do; and that is to honour your friend even though that friend is no longer with you...
I live in an accelerated lifestyle, jumping from task to task. I am always working, either for professional or for personal reasons. I admit then even tough I tend to my social network I've lost sight of the individual people. I seem to have lost the capacity to recognize friends as such... I feel sad that I don't think of myself as someone's friend. Have I lost the meaning of friendship?
I am always there when I am needed. But I have transformed that into a duty I must fullfill, a mechanical process instead of a sentimental one. As such I don't think of myself worthy of being labeled "friend".
But even I, like Forrest; I know that someone that calls you friend isn't found just around the corner...

The Motorcycle Diaries

I will get back to social networking, as promised.

But I want to comment on the movie. I am afraid that most English speaking Americans will only see some great cinematography behind a coming off-age story.

Please do try to look past, at the socio-political commentary and the points it tries to make. I would like you to judge for yourself, but I have to say that there are reasons why communism exists. Concepts like ownership, buying, selling, when they become all we know; end up controlling us.

I wonder if, increasingly people are judged by what they buy instead of for what they create. What we hoard, instead of what we teach, define us. I find myself no better.

But at least I wonder why...

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